Congress Website Overrun by Citizens
From the House of Representatives website as I was trying to share some views about the current crisis.
The House of Representatives is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high amount of email traffic. The Write Your Representative function is therefore intermittently available. While we realize communicating to your Members of Congress is critical, we suggest attempting to do so at a later time, when demand is not so high. System engineers are working to resolve this issue and we appreciate your patience.
Dave Ramsey suggests the following course of action. From an email sent by his organization. It makes a lot of sense to me. Who do you trust more with your money, Dave Ramsey or congress? I mean think about it.
—Start of Email—
We are at a crucial time in our country’s financial history. Congress defeated the $700 billion bailout plan on Monday. However, they are revising it and trying to push it through again. I’m supporting an alternative plan that will keep our nation from going even deeper in debt, and I’ve been on TV and radio all week telling people about it.
We need everyone’s help!
3 Steps to Change the Nation’s Future
Follow the instructions below. Together we can change history.
Pray For Your Leaders
Pray for them to resist a spirit of FEAR and to embrace WISDOM. Even if you don’t like them or agree with them, pray for them and tell them you are praying for them. There is a spirit over this problem that must be broken. Also, most of the media personalities are afraid as well and that is affecting their reporting. Pray for fear to be removed from them; they are making this worse.
Send the Common Sense Fix
Send The Common Sense Fix to your Representatives and Senators and tell them how you expect them to vote, and that if they put this nation in $700 billion of debt, that you will vote them out. It’s their job to listen to us! (Whichever presidential candidate or political party that champions this plan from their leadership down will likely become the next president. That is because this plan fixes the crisis while going along with the wishes of the vast majority of Americans.)
1. First, read this page (PDF)
2. Next, copy the info on this page (text file)
3. Send it to your Senators and Representatives by copying and pasting the text in the web form you’re sent to.
*Note: If their websites are down, that means we’re making a difference! Keep refreshing the page until you get through. You can also go through Congress.org, though we don’t endorse this site.
Tell Others
Forward this email to everyone in your address book and tell them to urgently follow these 3 steps TODAY. The more people we have supporting this and contacting their elected leaders, the more likely we can turn our economy around!
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Well I sent it off to Sen Corker and Alexander. The house website was down. I’ll try that later.
I’ve been trying to track down the history of my first name forever. I’d heard that it was based in mythology or from one of Homer’s (not Simpson) writings. A recent Google search found that my name shows up primarily in Virgil’s “The Aeneid”. Oh valiant warrior that I was, I tried to take on the prince, but alas tragedy strikes.
