With the news of the bailout bill passing the House just a few moments ago, I had to take the time to readjuct my previous letter to my senators to include Con. John Tanner. Tanner is from the 8th Congressional District of Tennessee and acts as my representative.
Dear Con. John Tanner,
As a taxpaying, voting citizen of this great nation, you have failed me. Over the course of the past two weeks, you 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 you that this bail-out would go into the hands of the starving, struggling taxpayers. No, this was never even a consideration.
You never batted an eyelash when voting on this $700 billion bailout. Instead, the people that depended upon you for representation in Washington were told this package was in “our” best interest.
Because of the passage of this bill, 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 Wednesday while natural gas prices loom higher. Our costs of living continue to increase as we become “more creative” with our spending.
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, Con. Tanner, 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.
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 you and asked you to consider your constituents’ opinions before casting your vote for the bailout bill.
You chose not to listen and so, I say again, you have failed them.
I hope that your decision allows 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
2 Comments
October 3, 2008 at 7:09 pm
New construction by companies and municipalities have slowed dramatically. Car dealerships are going out of business because nobody can get a loan for a home. Homeowners are having to keep their houses on the market indefinitely because people (well qualified people) can’t get mortgage loans.
If the Congress did not act, this trend would have worsened (and still might for that matter), and more people would be out of jobs, more people would be using Government services (the costs of which would never be recouped) and Government revenues both Federally and Locally would dry up.
Ultimately, if we did not pass this rescue package, there is a good chance that the economy would’ve seized, and the Federal Government still would’ve gone into further debt with or without this package. Improved health care would only be realized by more people becoming eligible for Medicaid.
October 4, 2008 at 1:46 pm
[...] to reflect these words that are floating around the ‘tubes right now: Dear Con. John Tanner, As a taxpaying, voting citizen of this great nation, you have failed me. [...]