Comments on: Gimme Back My Government http://tellmeaboutthat.com/2008/12/07/gimme-back-my-government/ Information For The Masses Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Tom S http://tellmeaboutthat.com/2008/12/07/gimme-back-my-government/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Tom S Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:16:38 +0000 http://tellmeaboutthat.com/?p=216#comment-66 We will have to write letters, letters and more letters. I know that I have sent letters to Secretary Paulson and two SC State Senators as well as Fox News. It's been about three weeks and I've yet to receive a single response or acknowledgment. I'm going to keep trying and look for other places to voice my opinion. We will have to write letters, letters and more letters. I know that I have sent letters to Secretary Paulson and two SC State Senators as well as Fox News. It’s been about three weeks and I’ve yet to receive a single response or acknowledgment. I’m going to keep trying and look for other places to voice my opinion.

]]> By: Schelesia Mangus http://tellmeaboutthat.com/2008/12/07/gimme-back-my-government/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Schelesia Mangus Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:04:35 +0000 http://tellmeaboutthat.com/?p=216#comment-64 Here's something else to think about: Ford has spent the last thirty years moving most of its factories out of the US , claiming they can't make money paying American wages. TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants Inside the US . The last quarter's results: TOYOTA makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses. Ford folks are still scratching their heads. Now they want our government to give them bailout money, they want the UAW employees to make concessions, and they expect the US citizen's who are the same UAW employees who are making concessions to fund the bailout. I say enough is enough and the only way its going to change is to force President Elect Obama to listen to "we the people" of whom he is to represent. My husband spent 2 hrs on the phone calling Carl Levin's office, Debbie Stabinow's office and several others to voice his opinion and got this response "we are inundated with calls and are unable to take each person's information and we must limit the time we spend on the phone with each caller" he was apalled. We have had all our emails rejected from Government servers with a response of "due to the overwhelming number of emails our server is receiving we are forced to reject email at this time" and snail mail I have been told by several government mail room workers is never even opened, its shredded. So how are we to voice our demands to our government when no one is listening? Here’s something else to think about:
Ford has spent the last thirty years moving most of its factories out of the
US , claiming they can’t make money paying American wages.

TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants
Inside the US . The last quarter’s results:

TOYOTA makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses.

Ford folks are still scratching their heads.

Now they want our government to give them bailout money, they want the UAW employees to make concessions, and they expect the US citizen’s who are the same UAW employees who are making concessions to fund the bailout. I say enough is enough and the only way its going to change is to force President Elect Obama to listen to “we the people” of whom he is to represent.

My husband spent 2 hrs on the phone calling Carl Levin’s office, Debbie Stabinow’s office and several others to voice his opinion and got this response “we are inundated with calls and are unable to take each person’s information and we must limit the time we spend on the phone with each caller” he was apalled. We have had all our emails rejected from Government servers with a response of “due to the overwhelming number of emails our server is receiving we are forced to reject email at this time” and snail mail I have been told by several government mail room workers is never even opened, its shredded. So how are we to voice our demands to our government when no one is listening?

]]> By: Jeannie http://tellmeaboutthat.com/2008/12/07/gimme-back-my-government/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Jeannie Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:04:47 +0000 http://tellmeaboutthat.com/?p=216#comment-63 I think you should run for office, providing you do all the things you say our politicians should do! But I want to see the plan first! I think you should run for office, providing you do all the things you say our politicians should do!

But I want to see the plan first!

]]> By: Judy Long http://tellmeaboutthat.com/2008/12/07/gimme-back-my-government/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Judy Long Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:36:35 +0000 http://tellmeaboutthat.com/?p=216#comment-61 Dear Tom, I agree with everything that you have said here. I am going to send a copy to the reps and senators from FL. It's way past time that we all stop complaining so much and begin to do something about representation. You are correct in that we have just let the government do what they want for decades. People are too afraid or too lazy or both to speak up to make our representatives really accountable. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy your writing! Judy Long Dear Tom,

I agree with everything that you have said here. I am going to send a copy to the reps and senators from FL. It’s way past time that we all stop complaining so much and begin to do something about representation. You are correct in that we have just let the government do what they want for decades. People are too afraid or too lazy or both to speak up to make our representatives really accountable.

Keep up the good work. I really enjoy your writing!

Judy Long

]]> By: Schelesia Mangus http://tellmeaboutthat.com/2008/12/07/gimme-back-my-government/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Schelesia Mangus Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:37:21 +0000 http://tellmeaboutthat.com/?p=216#comment-60 My husband and I agree completely and have felt the same way you do, as do all of our friends, relatives and co-workers. My husband was a 25 year UAW worker as well as Vice President of our UAW local. He is now disabled thanks to an accident at work that could have been avoided! Because the workers compensation insurance carrier is part of AIG we are told they do not have the money to complete the settlement they agreed to several months ago, they are denying him necessary medical treatment and we never know when or if his weekly pay will come. He has lost his employee provided insurance on our family now because we agreed to a settlement which we don't know if we will ever receive. With the employment situation here in Michigan I am unable to find employment and my company of which I have owned and ran successfully for 15 yrs had to close its doors because the businesses I provided my services to have all closed down. We feel that our government did this and allowed this all to happen and never listened to "we the people" of whom they are supposed to represent. Had they listened to us, our country would not be in this economic situation, we the people saw this coming 5 years ago! But our government was too busy living off our money in expensive homes with great medical treatment and private schools for their children as they traveled in the name of representing "we the people". "We the People" need to take back our country and force the government to do the jobs they were hired to do, Represent US! Thank you for creating this site, I will pass it on to everyone I know as well as every state representive (all 110 of them) for michigan via email, telephone call, fax and snail mail. EVERY American Citizen needs to come to your site and tell how WE want this country to run. After all it is our country isn't it? My husband and I agree completely and have felt the same way you do, as do all of our friends, relatives and co-workers. My husband was a 25 year UAW worker as well as Vice President of our UAW local. He is now disabled thanks to an accident at work that could have been avoided! Because the workers compensation insurance carrier is part of AIG we are told they do not have the money to complete the settlement they agreed to several months ago, they are denying him necessary medical treatment and we never know when or if his weekly pay will come. He has lost his employee provided insurance on our family now because we agreed to a settlement which we don’t know if we will ever receive.

With the employment situation here in Michigan I am unable to find employment and my company of which I have owned and ran successfully for 15 yrs had to close its doors because the businesses I provided my services to have all closed down.

We feel that our government did this and allowed this all to happen and never listened to “we the people” of whom they are supposed to represent. Had they listened to us, our country would not be in this economic situation, we the people saw this coming 5 years ago! But our government was too busy living off our money in expensive homes with great medical treatment and private schools for their children as they traveled in the name of representing “we the people”.

“We the People” need to take back our country and force the government to do the jobs they were hired to do, Represent US!

Thank you for creating this site, I will pass it on to everyone I know as well as every state representive (all 110 of them) for michigan via email, telephone call, fax and snail mail. EVERY American Citizen needs to come to your site and tell how WE want this country to run. After all it is our country isn’t it?

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