Dear Congressman / Congresswoman / XXX,
I urge you to read, co-sponsor, and support H.R. 1207. This bill, which takes only a few minutes to read, will bring increased transparency and congressional oversight to the Federal Reserve.
At a time when
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March 14, 2009
Audit the Fed - Letter to your Representative on H.R. 1207
Found this letter written By WarningSLO on Campaign For Liberty Blog. I share it as example letter for you to send to your representatives in congress.
Dear Congressman / Congresswoman / XXX,
Dear Congressman / Congresswoman / XXX,
March 6, 2009
Action: Federal Reserve Transparency Act H.R.1207
Ron Paul: Audit the Federal Reserve! 
UPDATE: Next Tuesday, April 28th, Campaign for Liberty will be holding its second official Mass Action Day by doing a "National Petition Push" for HR 1207. the media didn’t know what to say about all our “Audit the Fed” signs dominating the Tea Party visual landscape on April 15th, just wait till they see Congress slammed with tens of thousands of C4L petitions!
Want to see if your congressman is already one of HR 1207's 91 cosponsors? Click here to find out.
UPDATE: Next Tuesday, April 28th, Campaign for Liberty will be holding its second official Mass Action Day by doing a "National Petition Push" for HR 1207. the media didn’t know what to say about all our “Audit the Fed” signs dominating the Tea Party visual landscape on April 15th, just wait till they see Congress slammed with tens of thousands of C4L petitions!Want to see if your congressman is already one of HR 1207's 91 cosponsors? Click here to find out.
February 4, 2009
Employee Forced Choice Act - Write your Representatives
Use the draft letter at the VoteForBusiness.net | Action Center, or tailor it with your own words as I did. A copy of my letter is included below for your cut-and-pasting if desired.
I urge you to stand above partisan politics and take the moral high ground by opposing the flawed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
The EFCA is an icon for partisan politics at its worst. No one can deny that this bill is in fact about forced choice not free choice.
- Employees have free choice now, as I'm sure you are well aware.
- Likewise, no one can help but see the real intent of this bill, namely: to provide payback to Unions for their support of the Democratic Party, to strengthen the power of Unions in our economy and in turn increase the power of government over the people of this country.
The real intent of the EFCA is an affront to the liberty and freedom of our citizenry. Worst of all, if passed, it could cripple our economy; EFCA would have a particularly devastating impact on small employers who, as the primary source for new jobs, are counted on to reverse the current economic downturn. To vote for the EFCA is to vote knowingly for partisan politics at the expense of citizens' rights and the health of our economy.
Please protect the ability of American workers to choose whether or not to unionize through federally-supervised secret ballot elections. The bill consists of three provisions, each of which is unacceptable:
- Elimination of the Secret Ballot: Trading the secret ballot process for one that invites intimidation and coercion and leads to widespread disenfranchisement of workers is not a step in the right direction.
- Writing contracts through government imposed arbitration: Forced arbitration would impose unreasonable and inflexible terms and cause an employer to lose control over their operations, preventing them from growing their business.
- Unreasonable and one-sided penalty expansion: EFCA imposes dramatic new penalties on employers for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, but not a single new penalty on unions or labor organizers.
This bill is an awful idea in good economic times and a catastrophic idea in the difficult economic times now upon us. I again urge you, please, do not support or cosponsor the Employee Free Choice Act.
January 31, 2009
Stop the Massive Expansion of Government Run Healthcare Tell Your Member of Congress to Vote 'NO' on SCHIP
Stop the Senate version of the bill the House just passed. Use the ACU draft letter, tailor as you will, or use what you will of mine (below) but WRITE to your Senators!
As one of your constituents, I urge you to vote “NO” on the House version of the SCHIP expansion bill and support instead the substitute bill sponsored by Senators McConnell and Kyl.
The house version does not expand the coverage of health care to poor children, as claimed. Rather, this bill would allow and even encourage states to cover families who have private insurance and make up to $62,000 per year and even more in some cases. As the Congressional Budget Office study shows, 77% of the children that the expansion of this program would include already have personal health insurance. Encouraging them to switch from private insurance to government run health care may serve political objectives but it is disingenuous to suggest it serves the interests of poor children.
The house version is also out-of-step with President Obama’s renewed commitment to accountability in government; it lacks measures needed to insure that our nation’s uninsured, low-income children are covered first. It even prevents the federal government from asking states to certify that 95% of poor children are covered before other children or adults are covered.
Moreover, the fact that the house would expand entitlements without first resolving our social security dilemma is so fiscally irresponsible as to be unconscionable. Proposing that taxes on tobacco might fund this expansion is again blatantly disingenuous. Studies show that 55 percent of smokers are working poor and even your Congressional Research Service called this tax “one of the most regressive taxes.” Such a tax increase is hardly compatible with President-Elect Obama’s pledge of no tax increases for those making less than $250,000 a year. Or shall we recruit millions of new smokers from the ranks of our middle and upper-middle class to pay these bills?
Inevitably, other taxes I pay would increase to fund the long-term costs of this legislation. As a matter of principle, I oppose the use of my tax dollars to fund health care for anyone living above the federal poverty level and most certainly for anyone not legally in our country. By this standard, the SCHIP program is already over-funded. This bill would thus needlessly open the door to a bigger, riskier federal role in health care.
I urge you to take the moral high ground on the SCHIP expansion bill and vote against the intentional deception that the house version would perpetrate on the American people. Please Vote “NO” on the House version and “Yes” on the McConnell/Kyl substitute amendment.
November 6, 2008
Take Action: Tell Washington: No More Bailouts, Fix the System!
Take Action: Tell Washington: No More Bailouts, Fix the System! Also, sign the petition for no more bailouts at http://beyondbailouts.org/.
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