The economic stimulus package is still being debated.
This is an <em>excellent</em> opportunity for us to finally make the
switch over to the metric system.
We're about to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure
improvements and we could use that opportunity to do the improvements
in metric and make other concrete steps towards getting onto the
international system of units. This will not only provide stimulus to
the economy now, it'll help us in the future as we'll finally be on a
single system of measurement and we'll be building in the same
measurement system as everyone else so our exports will be more
attractive.
What can you do to help make this a reality?
Call your federal and state representatives <b>today</b> and let them
know you want metrication in the stimulus bill!
The US Capitol switchboard number is <b>+1 (202) 224-3121</b>
Don't know who your representatives are?
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This will take you to congress.org which has additional ways you can
contact your representatives (and direct links to their mailboxes if
you want to email/snail mail them). If you can, please call instead of
emailing them. It's fare more effective (but don't despair if you
don't like the phone, your voice will still be heard if you mail
them). Snail mail is apparently the most effective, but it's a bit
slow at this point (unless you overnight it).
If the form doesn't turn out right for you, you can use the one at
http://gometric.us/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/2009-02-09-EconomicStimulus
Paul
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Go Metric
http://gometric.us/
