A letter to Senator Obama…

I submitted the following letter to Barack Obama’s official website. I am well aware they likely receive tens of thousands of letters a day, but I felt inspired to write something today about what’s going on so I wrote this to the Senator from Illinios. Check it out.

Peter

Senator Obama:

I am writing to you today concerning the current finaicial crisis on Wall Street. I understand that right now you are under a great deal of pressure, and I wanted to take a moment to commend you for keeping your cool and showing exceptional leadership in this time of economic crisis. Right now you’re being told by the Whitehouse that if you don’t pass a seven hundred dollar blank check as soon as possible, disaster is just around the corner and to do nothing is a greater risk. The risk of doing something is less than the risk of doing nothing.

Does that quote sound familar?

It should, because it was the line that the Whitehouse used to sucker the American people into the last money pit known as the unjust war in Iraq.

This is called the ‘shock doctrine’ that has been used before to scare people into action quickly without letting them analyze what they’re getting into until it’s too late. People were scared into bombing Iraq with talk like “we don’t want our proof to be a mushroom cloud’ and now the talk is if we do nothing, the next great depression is around the corner if you don’t cut a blank check for Wall Street. After the debacle of Iraq, after the billions in nobid contracts that are still unaccounted for, the taxpayers have a right to be uneasy about the idea of just tossing almost a trillion dollars at Wall Street with zero oversight and no rules in place to make sure the money goes to where it’s supposed to go in the first place. The money could be used to finance golden parachutes for CEOs so they can bail before the big crash does happen, or leave the taxpayer with the bill while their homes still foreclose and the fatcats get a free lunch for making the economy messed up in the first place with their own greed and irresponsible decisions.

These investment banks have been foreclosing homes on working class families right left and center for the better part of a year now since the mortgage crisis started. Where is the bail out for those people? The banks didn’t hesitate to tell those people they were out of luck and out of their home, and now those same banks want congress to save them from their own foreclosure. Life it seems has it’s own sense of irony, as now Democrats can either foreclose the banks and give them a taste of their own medicine or take advantage of this purposal and save the people who are losing their homes, rather than saving the banks that tossed the people out on their asses. Instead of buying debt, buy the homes and let the people move back into them. Buy the mortgages from the banks and become the new owners of these homes and let the people move back home. Renegociate with the people who have been kicked out so they can have their homes back and that way the bail out can save main street as well as wall street.

But then again, the Whitehouse doesn’t want to talk about saving people’s homes, they only want to talk about saving Wall Street. I know you guys want to be non-partisan about this crisis but when a pitcher hangs a slider over the plate, you’d be a fool not to smash that ball over the fence for a homerun. The guy over in treasury just said he doesn’t want to save people’s homes! The Whitehouse just admitted they don’t care about the regular joe! This is your chance to stand up for the little guy… be a man of the people! Stand up and be the guy who stands up for the little guy, and say that only the democrats are for the people. John McCain won’t have a leg to stand on because that’s his party trying to bail out Wall Street with a blank check of the people’s money. He’s was part of the problem becasue he was for deregulation for years, and his party is part of the problem cause they want to give the farm to wall street and leave the people on the corner holding the bill with no where to go home to.

This is the picture you have to paint for the people, that you are the one fighting to save their homes and that the only thing Republicans want to fight for are corproations and CEO golden parachutes. Where was all this talk about bail out months ago when people were losing their homes? There was none cause Bush & Co. didn’t give a rat’s ass about the people, but when the fat cat’s are losing their companies, that when suddenly George can pull a trillion dollars out of his hat like David Copperfield. Let the people know that you believe they deserve a bail out too, not just Wall Street and watch the polls bump massively in your favor. Now is not the time to be non-partisan. Go for the jugular while it’s exposed.

Take care and good luck this Friday at the debate.

Sincerely,

Peter *****
Peter_24601@hotmail.com