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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 09:35 PM
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Ruh-roh, the Fundies are Fed up
Wonder if they'll ever admit that many of the anti-regulation, 'trickle down', Repug slime and their cronies they've been supporting are responsible for the state of affairs we are in now. Notice how they bring up Repug McCain talking points regarding pork barrel spending, loans given to "people who could not afford them" (That's code for poor people, minorities and illegals, as we have seen repeatedly over the course of the last couple of weeks) and Fannie and Freddie - which the right wing have been busy trying to tie to Obama and other Democrats.

Tell Washington You Are Fed Up!

Because of Washington, every member of your family now owes $37,667! Tell Congress that you want answers and action!

Take Action!
• Let your representative and senators hear from you today! Send your representative and two senators an e-mail telling them you want public hearings on this fiasco.
• Forward this to your family and friends.

We are asking that each representative and each senator announce that they approve open congressional hearings on this matter. Their failure to respond will be interpreted as being against open hearings. I urge you to join this effort to hold our elected officials accountable.


October 6, 2008

Dear Emit,

Washington has just put every member of your family deeper in debt. Washington added $700 billion to what we owe, making our debt $11.3 trillion. That amounts to $37,667 for every man, woman and child in America. Several hundred million of this $700 billion bailout went for “pork barrel” spending which is unrelated to the financial crisis.

The financial crisis is the result of power-hungry politicians telling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make loans to people who could not afford them, and then Fannie and Freddie forced the banks they serve to do the same. Those who lived inside their means and bought what they could afford are seeing their retirement funds going down the drain while the responsible parties pocket their millions.

We are fed up!

We demand open congressional hearings to investigate this matter. If we don’t act now, the politicians will sweep this under the rug.

• We want to know who did what, when and why that caused this crisis.
• We are fed up with you mismanaging our money.
• We are fed up with you “taking care of your buddies” in smoke-filled back rooms.
• We are sick and tired of having our money taken from us and squandered by Washington for political gain.
• We are tired of individuals doing a shoddy job of running a quasi-governmental operation and being paid $90,000,000 with our tax dollars.
• We demand an explanation of how this crisis happened and who was responsible for it.
• If laws were broken, we want those responsible prosecuted.
• For those who acted unethically, we want to know who they are and what they did.
• We want hearings on this matter, and we demand that they be open, not behind closed doors.
• We hold Congress responsible to get to the bottom of this matter so that it will never happen again.



Sincerely,



Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 09:36 PM
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1. Somebody else is going to have to take my share. I don't have that much cash laying around. NT
Edited on Mon Oct-06-08 09:36 PM by fiziwig
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 09:37 PM
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2. I thought all they cared about was abortion? I thought it was all about saving unborn babies.
Gee, turns out that they care about their pocket books even more.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 09:40 PM
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3. Truly rich irony.
"We want to know who did what..."

:rofl:
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 09:40 PM
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4. "Because of Washington"? No, it's because of you and your fundy ilk, Don.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 09:41 PM
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5. If they'd start supporting Democrats, we might not be in such deep debt.
What fools....I hope they catch and kill the culprits. They won't have to look far.
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Bluestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 09:43 PM
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6. You mean they have just discovered that their corporate slave-masters
have turned on them, used them, abused them, sucked the life out of their life savings and are now tossing them away? Karma's a bitch, you know!
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