Happy Fun Time. Writing Your Congressmen.

In Boy Scouts, as a requirement for some merit badge, we all were required to write a letter to our mayor regarding some local issue. I wrote about a dangerous bunch of potholes at the end of our street, which would fill with water and freeze into a giant frozen pond covering the entire intersection. My mom spun out on it once. Believe it or not, a work crew came out and eventually fixed it! Here is my letter to the Minnesota 5th District (THE FIGHTIN' FIFTH) congressmen, Mr. Keith Ellison. Let's hope he fixes the pothole.

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Dear Honorable Keith M. Ellison,

I oppose the proposed bailout plan because it violates economic justice and is fundamentally immoral. It pushes the underprivileged out of the housing market in favor of wealthy investors. Let prices drop as the market requires or you are responsible for helping banks and corporations deprive the people of their prosperity as Jefferson predicted would happen when banks control the business cycle.

"If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson

I do not want to wake up homeless, Mr. Ellison.

Reject this and all shameless favors for the wealthy. We are not afraid, and do not need bad business propped up by our tax dollars. Investors don't invest in failing businesses, why should we?

We will replace those bad businesses with sound ones...creative destruction is an absolute necessity for a functional economy, and eternal vigilance is essential if we are to reject the influences of corruption and endure as a just nation dedicated to the rule of law, equality, and freedom.

Your principles and intelligence are being tested. Do not be persuaded by rich business interests who want you to believe they are necessary to our survival. By allowing corporate welfare to pass you are literally taking money out of the pockets of the hardest (poor and middle class) workers and placing it into the hands of the wealthy. Our economy is only corrupt as much as government steals from the poor to ensure the portfolio, business, or employment of anyone. The poor and middle class are trying to live, eat, and pay a mortgage. The rich are trying to save their mansions, yachts, and cars. They are smart, but not smart enough to get away with this so long as YOU have the resolve to stand up to them. WE ARE BEHIND YOU, and would rather fight for truth and justice through hard times than see the fruits of our hard labor scooped up by the risk takers on Wall Street who messed up.

This is one case where you can be absolutely confident they are trying to protect their personal fortunes. They believe they are made of a finer clay than the rest of us, and now must save us from ourselves. Well, if past performance is indicative of future results, they will do this again and they have not earned their wealth in the first place. Don't believe them. We are a nation of smart, capable people, and the honest will always prevail if given the chance. PLEASE GIVE US THAT CHANCE!!!

Sincerely,

The Sasquatch
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I didn't want to get into how I really feel about all this. Reminds me I'm getting rather thirsty.