Just a quick note from Campaign for Liberty we learn that following the November elections, Harry Reid will pull out all the stops in a last ditch effort to pass as many bills as he can in a lame-duck session. According to a report in The Hill today (9/28/2010), Democrats are planning to bring up as many as 20 bills in as little as six weeks!
Bills such as S. 510, the FDA's War on Food, Joseph Lieberman's Internet Takeover Bill, Cap & Tax, and many more we've alerted you about are all likely to come up for a vote during that session.
So eternal vigilance my friends. Here are two recent DDC columns to act upon, also send them money if you have it.
It is clear that the Stimulus failed to curb unemployment. Even worse
is how the money is being spent. The letter below illustrates just one
place where your dollars are being misused.
That's why we're asking you to tell Congress to rescind all remaining
Stimulus funds.
Our hard-wired letter says simply "Please cut federal spending."
In addition to this you may borrow from or copy these additional
comments:
Specifically, please rescind all remaining stimulus funds. It adds to
the national debt but has not reduced unemployment.
Even worse is how the money is being spent.
For instance, the stimulus paid for RFID chips implanted in jerseys
that Head Start preschoolers are required to wear in Richmond, CA.
This Orwellian precedent scares me!
RFID is an unproven technology vulnerable to hacking - actually
making children less safe from kidnappers
It's unknown how much private data is being collected, and for how
long it will be kept, meaning...
I know this program was not specifically mentioned in the Stimulus
bill. That's the problem: even if you had read the bill, you wouldn't
have known about this.
That's why you should rescind all remaining stimulus funds. Don't
steal taxpayer money if you don't even know how it is being spent.
"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to
pass good ones."
— Calvin Coolidge
Last month we told you that the federal government's fiscal year
begins on October 1. But, as of that report, Congress still hadn't
passed any of the 12 departmental funding bills that are required to
operate the government.
Now with two days left, they STILL haven't!
Instead of honoring their responsibilities Congress plans to pass a
stop-gap spending bill called a Continuing Resolution (CR). This will
allow government departments to continue paying their bills for
another couple of months under the old budget agreement.
But the CR wasn't released until the afternoon of September 28 for a
Senate vote scheduled for today, September 29. And, there still isn't
a bill number attached to it.
Do you want Congress to operate this way -- failing to honor their
responsibilities and spending your money in last-minute bills they
don't read?
If not, then tell Congress to pass DownsizeDC.org's Read the Bills
Act.
You may borrow from or copy this letter:
Members of Congress had time for this bit of fun, but Congress hasn't
found time to pass any of the 12 appropriations bills that are due
Oct. 1!
This means you will pass a Continuing Resolution instead. But as of
the morning of September 29, the CR doesn't even have a bill number!
You guys can't even pass a CR in a responsible way, and yet I am
required to pay for and obey all of your dictates, on pain of fines or
imprisonment. This has things exactly backwards. Congress should be
held to a higher standard, while citizens should be cut more slack.
Remember, you are supposed to work for us, not the other way around.
If you passed DownsizeDC.org's Read the Bills Act . . .
You would be forced to prioritize
The open process required by RTBA would also provide an opportunity
to cut waste and pork from our $3.8 trillion federal government
And think about this: introducing the Read the Bills Act would be a
brilliant move for your re-election campaign.
END LETTER
You can send your letter through DownsizeDC.org's Educate the
Powerful System.
And if you have a website or blog, we invite you to join the Read the
Bills Act Coalition. Membership will give you an opportunity to spread
awareness about the RTBA, and in exchange we will list your site on
our blog and announce it in a Downsizer-Dispatch reaching over 30,000
subscribers. You can learn more and join here.
