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Edited on Mon Jun-21-10 02:12 PM by Elad
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And I am going to send them this message when they request money.
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Thank you for letting me know. I am currently one of your poorer members, seeing as I am living, well surviving, actually, on Disability of $xxxx a month. That's it, folks. I bring no other income in, and out of this, I pay all my bills, food, take care of my animals, and well, there isn't a whole lot left.
When I have a couple of dollars left (in one of those rare times when I don't buy as much food as I should be), I donate to charities. Those charities are REALLY in need of my money, not corporatists who really aren't representing ME when they go looking to signing bills and laws.
Let's see, now....there was absolutely NO, and I mean NO cost-of-living increase for me this year. Did congress vote for a wage increase for themselves? I don't know. Did congress send more doctors to Iraq, or Afghanistan, or someplace OTHER than the USA? Did they accept gifts from corporations? Did they get wined and dined by lobbyists, or PACs? Did they have promises to special "friends?" And oh, we must not forget kowtowing to the Saudis and other middle-eastern countries for the best price on oil, keeping the Saudis rich and turning out even more terrorists into the world. Did congress even consider what those of us who haven't got money to pay for "influence" were going to be doing, come winter again, to keep warm? I have some pretty serious illnesses, and being cold is essentially the same as allowing me to suffer a very slow, agonizing death. Did those who want to cut Medicare even consider that part of the equation, that we are not in another country, that we are here, in allegedly the "richest" country in the world, dying and suffering every single day?
Yours is the voice of solicitation, and yet, until I am certain that as a citizen of this country I am getting the attention of my own, elected officials, I will no longer be contributing to any political causes.
You have my permission to distribute my reply to anyone you believe might have need of an explanation for just the one of me and the reasons I don't have any money to put into the coffers of our alleged "representatives." Children and animals are far more in need of the couple of dollars I have, and if it means not eating a meal, so be it, because I can live without a meal, while these innocents cannot.
I find that every day I live and see yet another injustice, I know that politicians aren't there for me, and likely never have been. Mere survival. Do you even know what exactly I and so many others go through every day of our lives? Well, I consider it a luxury to have internet access. Considering how bad my legs are right now, my internet connection serves as my primary outlet to talk with people, since I can't walk very much anymore. I pay for a friend's dinner a couple of times a month because he drags me out to shop, and to simply get out of the house. We don't go anywhere fancy, but considering all else, it's a way to be out with someone other than my computer. Clothes? I live in tee-shirts and jeans, so I don't have much else around, and when my insulin bulks me up every now and then, I am always glad I haven't thrown out the different sizes.
I spend a fair amount of time going to the Dollar Store, because it's about all I can really afford. If I really need something during a month, I cut down on fresh produce in order to compensate. Not the best solution, but hey--it's what is required. I don't see too many other solutions, unless I thought about selling plasma, and I can't do that because of health problems.
I'm just one of many. Most others, though, don't always have a means to get information very readily, and well, Fox News becomes their sole source of news and information, and we all know how bad that is for a person's continued health and well-being. But repugs know how to talk with angry people, and people believe that in some small way that the far right understands them more. That's why Palin and all those other whores on the right strike a chord with ordinary people. People want someone that takes their side in an argument, and guess what? The left isn't that concerned about us. We get you all into office, come hell or hot water, and you betray us. It's gotten to a point where I don't even bother writing any essays anymore, because no one is listening to us.
President Obama offered a hope for change, and yet it hasn't materialized. I do understand why to some extent, but when it comes down to business, those of us on the "wrong side of the tracks" are just given more empty promises.
Will it end? Sure will--the day when the majority of the people in the USA feel that the Left is as contemptible as the right, and will stop looking for answers from them. That will be a day I probably won't live to see, at least that's my hope--I know all I can do is go on, one day at a time, and put on the blinders to all the corruption, the broken promises, the lack of concern for the welfare of ALL the US citizens, and the fact that all members of congress look to cover their own asses before they even think of the rest of us.
If this means I can no longer be on the mailing list, fine. Thankfully, email doesn't litter the world, and I have enough coming into my cyber mailbox not to care about one more group, whose main contribution into my life is asking for money--money that I don't have.
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let me know what you think.
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