Contact your representatives

[PrinceofWands]

We have good debates (sometimes) on this forum. We have facts, we have figures, we have emotional pleas, etc. We do it 24 hours a day...amongst ourselves. What I think we forget is: we don't get a vote. But there are people who do, and they're paid good money to listen to us when we talk to them.

Every person who has posted in any of the MANY MANY MANY health care debate threads we've had should just take a moment and contact their representatives. Contact your Congressmen, your Senators, and the President. Just tell them how you fell, and what you'd like them to do about it. That's their job folks.

YOUR job is to be a part of the system by contacting them. Your civic duty doesn't begin and end at the ballot box. Quit talking to us, and start talking to THEM! I just did...it took 10 minutes. 10 Minutes on a computer from home in my shorts, and I get to call myself a part of the American process.

 

[jonks]

is your broken congressional link a poetic statement on the chances of them listening to us?

 

[spittledip]

Originally posted by: jonks
is your broken congressional link a poetic statement on the chances of them listening to us?

hehe

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: jonks
is your broken congressional link a poetic statement on the chances of them listening to us?

ROFL Good catch. No idea how that happened, but fixed now.

 

[EndGame]

I've done so and told them I wanted a bill which was fair to all, didn't cost the middle class an arm and a leg, didn't cause our nation to go into even more severe debt and didn't cause lack of or long waits for needed service.........not the debacle currently being considered!

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands

YOUR job is to be a part of the system by contacting them. Your civic duty doesn't begin and end at the ballot box. Quit talking to us, and start talking to THEM! I just did...it took 10 minutes. 10 Minutes on a computer from home in my shorts, and I get to call myself a part of the American process.

Very good points.
I think many people spend all their time talking about issues while never trying to do anything about them.

If everyone that had an issue with something the government did would at least send an email things could change very fast.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: jonks
is your broken congressional link a poetic statement on the chances of them listening to us?

My girlfriend works for a state senator as a policy advisor. She's really opened my eyes to how much representatives care about what their constituents say. They can't act on every opinion that comes their way, but I know her boss has frequently voted on issues based solely on what feedback her office has received.