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How to Send a Letter to a Congressman

Lady Kathleen — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:19:22 +0000

Writing your congressman is an important right you have as a citizen of the United States. If you have an issue or petition you would like to bring up to him, sending a letter is a great way to do that. It is important to recognize that your congressman gets tons of mail each day and may not get to each letter for days if not weeks. That is why we recommend you do more than just write them, but also post your letters here!

Step 1)
Find the name and address of your congressman. It may be easier for you to write your congressman an email than mailing a letter.

Step 2)
Determine the main point of your letter. Get to the point in your letter fast and explain yourself clearly.

Step 3)
Write about only one issue in your letter.

Step 4)
Include detailed information about your situation.

Step 5)
Include your real contact.

Step 6)
Be pleasant.

Step 7)
Be patient for a response, and don’t get discouraged if the response isn’t what you hoped. Just keep writing other representatives if your cause is that important to you.

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Post your letter to Yes-23.com so that you can get some added attention to your situation or concern.

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Washington’s View on Health Care

RodZ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:23 +0000

I have been watching the health care wars for sometime now and believe that we have an administration that is sending a mixed message to the American people. If you listen to the President and all the others telling you that we must do something to cut costs because we cannot sustain doing nothing, you begin to see that this statement really applies to the governments spending on health care. I believe that Medicare and the governments handling of this program has caused our entire medical industry to become more of a government run program and less or a free market enterprise.
The politicians have a way of spending tax receipts on everything but the programs the money was intended for. If the money withheld from our paychecks was really in a trust and not sold as treasuries and then reallocated back to the general fund the crisis we now face would at least have been far less expensive than it is currently.
If you really ask questions of your medical provider and get a truthful answer you would also find that Medicare cost fixing sets the baseline for what the insurance companies negotiate with the providers. In addition the monopoly enjoyed by the insurance companies, created by our government, further negates competition and does not provide the consumer with the benefits of a free market place.
My question is simply, why not fix Medicare and follow up on the promise to end the wast, fraud and abuse of that program? Why not end the monopolies and lower the overall cost of medical insurance through competition?
We are still not being listened to by this administration. The President is still pushing forward with health care reform and the Congress is now developing another stimulus bill in secret. This is simply not acceptable and we the people must continue to make our voices heard. We have already seen that votes do trump dollars, we must not stop telling our representatives what we want in loud clear terms.

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Washington Is dysfunctional, State of the Union, Chaos

RodZ — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:57:15 +0000

I think we have a dysfunctional legislative body. They are unable to put aside ideological agendas and sit down and negotiate legislation that works for the American people. It has become very clear that they are so disconnected from middle America that they cannot understand what we want or need. Their economic status is simply so much better than the average American that they cannot relate to what it means to have more month than money. I actually heard a Senator say that health insurance through the proposed exchange would only be about $600 per month. That statement would have been laughable if the situation wasn’t so serious. Only $600 per month to someone making $30K or less a year is not really doable. I use this as an example to illustrate the mind set of our Congressional leaders.
They are now polling and trying to find the meaning of the Massachusetts elections results. From what I am hearing from them on the news and the Presidents State of the Union speech is clearly demonstrating that they still don’t get it. I believe that Washington has no regard for out tax dollars or our needs. I believe they are driven by Ideological agendas, desire to stay in power and special interest groups providing money for their re-election.
They health care bill is now dead because they could not and would not work together to implement even the small issues they could agree on. I still think that the anti-trust exemption the insurance companies enjoy should be repealed. I also believe that pre-existing conditions and several items like that could be managed if not for the, all or nothing, mindset of our legislators.
What happened to the waste, fraud and abuse issues with Medicare? Are they no longer important? Will they no longer save the American taxpayer billions of dollars? Why are they not fixing Medicare? All you hear is that it is a great and popular program and yet it is going broke and many doctors and health care providers are not accepting it any longer.
The new message is “we get it, focus on jobs and the economy” so now all the work health care reform will just go away while we implement a spending freeze create a new stimulus jobs program. How can you have a freeze and put $200 billion new dollars towards a new stimulus? What happened to $500 plus billion left unspent in the first stimulus? It is obvious that the first stimulus was really not designed to create jobs but put forward many ideological ideals from the liberal Democrats. I suggest they revisit that bill and not spend the remaining money. The Tarp money was originally supposed to be repaid and returned to the treasury for repayment towards reducing our debt, not reallocated for additional social programs under the guise of jobs stimulus.
Stop the “pork spending” it is not appropriate to load any bill will non related spending items that do not benefit the country as a whole. I just cannot understand the mindset of our legislative body during a recession that would increase cost to the nation to build a library in any state.
A spending freeze at the new spending levels is just ridiculous, the spending rate is said to be 28% higher than that of the Bush administration and growing. Cut spending, review all the programs and start cutting your spending. Reduce income taxes across the board, along with capital gains and payroll taxes. Regan accomplished an excellent environment for business to flourish using this principle as did Clinton, even though Clinton raise taxes slightly his spending polices were in check.
I am to a point where I see not relief for the American people, the system is geared to work against us unless we really become active as voters and stay in communication with our representatives. I urge all of you to write your representatives and clearly state what you want. Do not let the polls and the limited thinking of Washington advisors dictate what we get. Let them know that we do not want the Czars and commissions of unelected officials driving policy. In fact lets start the spending cuts with firing these guys and saving the money spent on their salaries and staff salaries.

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Health Care Reform=Bankruptcy?

RodZ — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:58:22 +0000

HealthCare and the Capitol

Todays budget is in shambles, what we need is being decided by those who would bankrupt this county for “ideals”. While I agree healthcare is in need of reform, I would say that I doesn’t require redesign at the expense of our nations future. If we are truly looking for cost savings to pay for this program we would be looking to reduce the budget in areas that only serve a political agenda or payback for special interest groups. There is no reason to be funding ACORN and the like. There is no reason to send billions of dollars in earmarks that only produce limited jobs or results to a small number of citizens.
While I don’t pretend to know what is in the budget in total, I do know that it contains billions of dollars that could be used in a more productive way. I also know that you cannot borrow your way out of debt. Common sense tells us we must reduce our spending and our debt. Washington will tell you that the earmarks are a “drop in the bucket” but I know, when reducing debt, one starts small and it adds up. Pay the small debts first, add that to the larger debts and in time it snowballs. Just common sense, something that is lacking in Washington.

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