From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:12:58 -0600 Subject: NO Phony Stimulus or Massive, Unsustainable Government Spending! Template Call To Action Use our Email/Letter tool to tell Congress: NO MASSIVE FEDERAL SPENDING INCREASE WITH PHONY "STIMULUS" BILL! CUT OUR TAXES! Take Action by going to: http://www.votervoice.net/Groups/FLTPU/Advocacy/?IssueID=16124&SiteID=-1 (Does the proposed Postal Service Delivery cut teach us any lessons? - See below) "The government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up." Central Planner and Socialist Economist John Meynard Keynes Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a massive lobbyist-written government expansion and enitlement bill that will worsen our economy in the long term. (Fortunately, the Senate can still stop it). The $825 billion economic stimulus program will create a terrible tax burden on Americans, our children and grandchildren. It will create new government programs that will not help our economic situation since it is these very types of programs that have gotten us into this mess. Like giving drugs to an addict, it will give more money to state and local government so they can continue to waste local tax dollars to sustain projects built by the Feds! See a list of the wasteful spending at: Read The Stimulus.ORG. Even the Congressional Budget Office points out major problems of these porkbarrel and political projects masquerading as "stimulus". Together with uncontrollable printing of money by the Federal Reserve, massive and irresponsbile govenment spending is crippling our country. Consider the amount of money printed by the Federal Reserve in the last year to cover these spending programs and other "bailouts" (as popularized on Glen Beck Show this week: "An Inconvenient Debt"). This uncontrollable printing of money is destroying the value of the dollar and risking massive inflation - a hidden tax. This massive inflation can destroy economies and countries (see the recent unrest in Iceland where the government is crumbling due to a financial crisis). A good case for abolishing our Federal Reserve and restoring the Gold Standard ended in 1971 by Richard Nixon. The House of Representatives passed this in a one sided vote favored only by those who like big government. (Yes - 244 Dems. No - 11 Dems and 177 Reps). Fortunately, the bill will go to the Senate where it can be FILIBUSTERED, CHANGED and DOWNSIZED!! Please contact your Florida Congressmen and Senators and tell them to cut spending and let you keep your tax money. Remember, this same amount of money would be the equivalent of a $1,500 check to each taxpayer in the country. A far better way to stimulate the economy - CUT TAXES! What Does the Postal Service Teach Us? Do you wonder why the U.S. Postal Service wants to cut Service from 6 days/week to 5 days/week? They don't know how to manage an enterprise and cut spending - they would rather cut your service! They, and the government, see the postal service not as a mail delviery service, but as a jobs program! Why trim cut costs, cut workers and cut incredibly generous employee benefits (as the private sector must) when they can just ask Americans and businesses to get by with a day's less worth of mail. This is all on the back of the taxpyaer supporting excessive health and reitrement benefits for current and retired workers - more than most taxpayers can get in the private sector! Just think what will happen with the massive expansion of government programs under consideration in Congress now. What will happen as they fail? Will they be downsized and made to work efficiently or will those who grow dependant on them just have to get by with less? The lesson: Government progams are not about providing good service at a good price. They are about politics and agendas of politicians and special interests. In this case they are about creating "jobs" to dig and fill holes! PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO FLORIDA TAXPAYERS UNION TO SUPPORT OUR MISSION AND TO HELP YOU STAY INFORMED! Click the link below to log in and send your message: http://www.votervoice.net/link/target/fltpu28274863.aspx You have received this message because you have subscribed to a mailing list of Florida Taxpayers Union. If you do not wish to receive periodic emails from this source, please click below to unsubscribe. powered by voterVOICE To unsubscribe from this mailing list click here. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
