VoteNoBailout.org
100,000 letters sent to elected officials in 24 hours opposing bailout legislation
VoteNoBailout.org was launched on September 22, 2008, in response to the Bush administration's attempt to rush Bailout legislation through Congress.
In an astonishing response to its appeal, more than 100,000 letters were sent to elected officials within the first 24 hours through the VoteNoBailout.org email advocacy mechanism. People are circulating this appeal all over the internet on web sites, blogs and between individuals.
A sample of the VoteNoBailout.org letter reads:
"Congress has no right to give the White House and its Secretary of the Treasury the power to transfer the people's money to the richest bankers in the country. Vote No to the Bailout legislation. The Bailout legislation is being rammed through Congress in a matter of days.
"This is an illegal power grab by the White House and their richest friends on Wall Street. The Legislation allows the Treasury Department to appoint the same bankers who created the crisis to administer and dictate the use of trillions of our tax dollars. It is also one of the biggest transfers of wealth from working families to the ultra-rich in the history of the United States.
"Congress should help families stay in their homes. Wealthy executives should be forced to disgorge their obscene profits, fees and bonuses that made them ultra-rich while they ran the economy into the ground."
VoteNoBailout.org was initiated as a project of ImpeachBush.org. There will be daily updates for the media about the number of people who have sent letters to Congress opposing this unprecedented handover of the people's money to the richest bankers and the assumptions of vast, new powers by the Executive Branch of government.
I heard a "viewer mail" on a MSM "news service" (yeah, right!) say that he was having to give up his weekly golf game as a result of the current crisis. My heart bleeds! I hope the prick that had the nuts to say such a thing ends up in a fucking bread line!
