An open letter to My Senators

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Dear Sens. Corker and Alexander,
As a taxpaying, voting citizen of this great nation, the two of you have failed me. Over the course of the past two weeks, you two have chosen to divert more money from my child to benefit those who have worked off of my back to get to where they are today.
I grow weary, not from the constant burden that has been placed on my shoulders everyday by those who claim to work in my best interest. No, I grow weary because I look at my two-year-old daughter who hasn’t a clue what is going on this country right now and I see her begin to slump over. She slumps because of the burden that she unknowingly carries at the hand of people that pretend to care about her future.
So not only have you failed me, you have failed her.
I can carry the burden as I have for several years under failed systems put in place, once again, by those who I elected to protect me from these vast burdens. But, my daughter is only two years old and you have used her future as a bargaining chip to help those who have taken advantage of people like her parents and grandparents for years.
There was no point in time when I heard from either of you that this bail-out would go into the hands of the starving, struggling taxpayers. No, this was never even a consideration.
Neither of you batted an eyelash when voting on this $700 billion bailout. Instead, the people that depended upon you two for representation in Washington were told this package was in “our” best interest.
If this bill passes, the million dollar companies that will benefit from this can continue their operations just as they did before.
But, we the people, on the other hand, will continue to live paycheck to paycheck. We will continue to scrape money together to pay for one more gallon of high dollar gas. And, we the people must now re-evaluate our energy costs as the Tennessee Valley Authority rate hike went into effect yesterday.
I am not asking you to bail me out. No, I have done that repeatedly in the past week. You didn’t listen.
When my daughter is old enough to ask why her back and shoulders hurt, I will be honest with her. I will tell her that she must now carry the burden that has been passed to her by those who her mother and father once trusted.
To you, Sen. Alexander, you will not receive a vote from me in November. You have failed me and you have placed too heavy of a burden on my child. She does not deserve, nor will ever deserve that type of recklessness from anyone. Certainly not from someone whose salary is paid by her mother and father as well as her grandparents.
To you, Sen. Corker, my message to you is the same. I will remember the day when you placed a bargaining chip on my daughter’s head when you are up for re-election.
Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done or said that will have me feel otherwise.
I know there were plenty of people out there who contacted the two of you and asked you to consider your constituents’ opinions before casting your votes for the bailout bill.
You chose not to listen and so, I say again, you have failed them.
I hope that your decisions allow you to be able to sleep peacefully at night, as my nights just became a little more restless.
Sincerely,
A concerned taxpaying citizen and mother in your district

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