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From: National Taxpayers Union <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Subject: Urgent: Tell Your Elected Officials to Vote "NO" on the $700
Billion Financial Industry Bailout
To: tom martz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://www.ntu.org>
Today, Sunday, September 28, Congress is scheduled to vote on the $700
billion bailout package. Below is a Vote Alert sent by NTU to each Capitol
Hill office.
As a concerned taxpayer, you can help by picking up your phone and urging
your elected officials to oppose this plan.
Representative Roy Blunt: *(202) 225-6536*
Christopher Christopher Bond:* (202) 224-5721*
Claire McCaskill*:(202) 224-6154*
** Other contact information can be found by clicking
here<http://ga1.org/ntu_action/leg-lookup/search.html?>
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National Taxpayers Union Vote Alert *
* NTU urges all Members of Congress to vote "NO" on the $700 billion
financial industry bailout plan.*
This unconscionable scheme forces the vast majority of taxpayers who were
honest and prudent to bail out firms on Wall Street that made bad business
decisions. Furthermore, it does nothing to address the root causes of
today's market difficulties. The long-term effects of this fiasco, including
inflation, a weaker dollar, and an even more precarious federal balance
sheet, are almost certain to outweigh the shallow short-term stabilization
of moneyed interests who have been twisting arms on both ends of
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Congress helped to create this debacle with the Community Reinvestment Act,
poor tax policies, hastily designed mark-to-market regulations, and
spectacular negligence with regard to the systemic risks posed by Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac. Rather than addressing those core problems, this
disgraceful plan instead snatches $700 billion from the pockets of
hard-working Americans, the vast majority of whom had no part in this
horrific play.
Congress apparently decided to listen to a few political heavy-hitters in
the financial community about the need to shovel boatloads of taxpayer money
into their faltering businesses, rather than listening to their constituents
who oppose this giveaway almost unanimously. The legislation before you has
made nips and tucks to the Treasury's original proposal that ultimately
cannot conceal its fundamental flaws. Surely some Members will reap what
they have sown at the ballot box for their shocking negligence of taxpayers'
concerns.
*Roll call votes on the bailout will be one of only a handful of votes in
the last decade to receive the highest weight of 100 in our annual Rating of
Congress.*
If you have any questions, please contact
NTU Government Affairs Manager Andrew Moylan at (703) 216-7924
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