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[FINAL DRAFT -- Post #7];
[Links for U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation -- Post #4];
[Links for U.S. House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit -- Post #5]
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June 22, 2008
To Our Elected Representatives,
Professional drivers are still being driven into bankruptcy. Companies are still going under. American jobs are still being lost. More American families are losing their homes. These are realities you, Our Elected Representatives, continues to allow with your in-action.
We have taken our voice to the hill and spoke of the actions we need. We have impressed upon you, Our Elected Representatives, the actions necessary to protect our way of life. We have given you, Our Elected Representatives, the information, and direction, to accomplish the necessary action we need.
During the week of June 16-20, 2008, you, Our Elected Representatives, once again did nothing to help professional drivers or American citizens. You, Our Elected Representatives, have once again allowed another week of suffering. More jobs have been lost, homes have been lost, businesses have gone under due to our current economic crisis, which can be addressed if you, Our Elected Representatives, would just act. You, Our Elected Representatives, continue to talk but get nothing done to help America. You, Our Elected Representatives, continue to bicker and point fingers instead of coming together in the interest of Americans to get something positive done.
During the week of June 16-20, 2008:
You, our Elected Representatives, have once again violated your oath to the American people. And to add to that violation - you, our Elected Representatives, have passed unconstitutional legislation…violating Americans 4th Amendment rights. Have you no shame? Our country’s current economic and energy crisis should take precedence over all other matters. You, our Elected Representatives, have used the guise of national security to attack the right of Americans to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects.
We have seen attempts to address the manipulation of America’s energy prices, only to be ignored by the majority of our Elected Representatives. We have seen the attempt by Rep. Westmoreland to get the U.S. House to commit to acting according to the will of the American people - only to be ignored by the majority of our Elected Representatives (170 Reps out of 435 have committed themselves to the American people.)
We have seen you, our Elected Representatives, authorize the additional spending of millions, if not billions, of taxpayers’ money for federal employees, instead of acting to stop the raping of American citizens hard earned income…the American citizens you expect to pay this added expenditure. You, our Elected Representatives, have referenced yourself as a business needing to be competitive as such - even a simple minded businessman knows if you don’t have the money…you don’t incur a debt you can’t afford - and America can not afford this added expense you have placed upon our shoulders.
We have seen you, our Elected Representatives, take action regarding monkey bites instead of the crisis our country is facing. We have seen you, our Elected Representatives, commit to spending billions of additional taxpayers money on a war which you, our Elected Representatives, promised to bring to an end over 18 months ago. We have seen you, our Elected Representatives, spend valuable time discussing and voting upon Public Radio Recognition Month, instead of using that valuable time addressing our country’s crisis. We have seen you, our Elected Representatives; vote on a bill regarding a cemetery in Montana, instead of addressing our country’s current crisis.
Millions of Americans are speaking out, demanding you act according to the will of the American people…whom you, our Elected Representatives, have taken an oath to serve and protect…only to ignore our demands for action. You, our Elected Representatives, continue to allow American citizens to suffer at the hands of not only big business, but at the hands of our own government. You, our Elected Representatives, are destroying our country with your inaction to address the crisis our country faces. Americans are not going to stand for this much longer. Americans are at the edge of losing everything and you, our Elected Representatives, refuse to act…refuse to unlock our resources; allowing Americans to do something…refuse to realize the destructive nature of your ignorance to our country’s crisis…
We will remind you in the words of our founding fathers and demand you act according to the will of the American people. --
…That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security… (Declaration of Independence)
Once again…
Actions Needed Immediately:
1.) We are now demanding you, our Elected Representatives, to call for an emergency session to address our country’s crisis. Because you, our Elected Representatives, have wasted valuable time - addressing issues of no importance to our country’s crisis - we are demanding you remain in session until these issues are addressed.
2.) The immediate passing of S.2910 & H.R.5977 (TRUCC) to bring transparency to the trucking industry. To put professional drivers in the position of being able to make proper decisions regarding their business. It is only right that a businessman should be given the right to know he is being fairly paid for his services. Remove the broker’s ability to continue to rob our professional drivers…the backbone of this great country’s economy.
3.) The immediate action necessary, as testified by Mr. Greenberger, Mr. Soros, Mr. Ramm and Dr. Cooper, before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation regarding the re-instatement of commodity regulations which existed for 78 years before you, Our Elected Representatives, abandoned/changed those regulations…thus leading up to the current economic crisis America faces today. Testimony has been given by intelligent, competent and knowledgeable individuals. Individuals very much aware of the market they speak about.
4.) A commitment to open your doors to more than special interest groups, large corporations and commission representatives…but to professional drivers, and American citizens, with pertinent input to what’s happening to us. A commitment to pursue listening...acting accordingly to the will of the American people. A commitment to become more aware and active with the American people you represent. A commitment to understand the realities of what your decisions on the hill does to the American people.
America is standing on the edge of economic collapse and you, Our Elected Representatives, continue to not take the immediate steps, and action, necessary to protect our country. We are in need and you, Our Elected Representatives, are not doing the job we have elected you to do. We will continue to speak out and demonstrate through slow-downs and protests across the nation. As each passing week goes by which you, Our Elected Representatives, do not get something done…we will continue to grow even larger in number and strength…eventually leading to an America shut-down if necessary. If you, Our Elected Representatives, do not take the steps, and actions, needed to protect our country - there soon will be no country to protect. As Americans, we have no choice but to demand - once again - you, Our Elected Representatives, put the interests of the citizens of this nation first, and take the necessary steps NOW to stop the impending disaster facing our nation.
“We The People”
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__________________ STAND UP, SPEAK OUT OR ACCEPT WHAT COMES!!! [ May God Give Us All Strength For What's Coming ]
Last edited by SilverSurfer; 06-22-2008 at 10:44 AM.
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