What to do about the incessant sell outs by elected Democratic politicians?
Get Mad, Get Active, Get On The Phone, Get Out The Letters To The Editor, Get Out The Letters To The Elected, Get Inspirational, Get On Your Knees ...
GET EVEN?
EVERY phone call or email to a Democratic politician,
- Inform him/her of a PLEDGE a certain amount of time or a certain amount of money, or of both, to his / her primary opponent, AND
- Keep a running tally of the pledged time, pledged money, or pledged both, AND
- Inform him/her of the running tally of pledged time and or money.
SAMPLE SCRIPT
Imagine calling the u.s. senators office, or congresscritter office, or dscc or dccc or state dem office, and saying
"Dear Sell Out Senator / Congresscritter _____,
For Selling Out us working stiffs on bill / law ______ on the date of ________ ,
I __________ pledge __ dollars and | or __ minutes to YOUR primary opponent.
This brings the total I have pledged to your future opponent to ___ dollars and | or ____ minutes.
This brings the total I have pledged to future opponents off the status quo to ___ dollars and | or ____ minutes."
WHO I AM - WHY I'M FED UP AND WHY YOU MIGHT CONSIDER PAYBACK!
In 1982 when I was 22 I was breaking my ass for $5.25 an hour, working full time to afford culinary school AND borrowing the maximun amount you're allowed to borrow. I didn't qualify for grant money cuz I was working, and, given that my family was on welfare in the 70's, there were no re$ource$ to make up for that lack of grant money. I wasn't going to keep rent paid or tuition paid by sitting in a Boston cafe reading "What Color is Your Parachute?".
At this time, I was an inhabitant of Tip O'Neil's district in Boston, and WHAT did the Dim-O-Sell-Outs do to financial aid for broke people like me?
They cowered and shit in their message-less pants against ronnie raygun's lies, because according to raygun the pig$ at the top needed MORE of what they $tole from us working peee-ons! Ya see, the pig$ at the top were gonna inve$t all their taken money and grow the economy and create MORE jobs! NOT wipe out familiy wage jobs on an enourmous debt binge to finance feeding pig friends in the defen$e department. Ooopsie! Anyone remember savings and loans, leveraged buyouts, raided pensions?
Yup, the Dems shit in their pants and helped raygun shred a VERY tattered ...ha ha ha...'safety' net.
How many of our current senior dem-o-$ell out$ started their third way career$ back then? I was actually amenable to the dukakis-clinton-gore third way stuff, as my growing up experiences on welfare and financial aid sucked. I thought - man, if we could make those programs REALLY work for people who just needed a hand up, who weren't subsidized by mummy or granny (i$n't that the definition of being broke, by the way?). Of course, the compromises and biparti$an$hit were supposed to be temporary tactical moves to rebuilding the party as we fought of the selfish scum who'd eliminate financial aid and welfare and let everyone starve on their ketchup and boot straps.
And here we are running around, 29 years after raygun got his finger on the doomsday button, snivelling and whining, shitting in our diapers, cuz lying fascist sell outs like conrad and grassley are going to ...
do what?
The people at the top make the rules, and they make the rules so that they get the most, and they make the rules so they stay on top and get the most. It ain't Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Seasame Street, or Barney.
We've been feeding the pig$ at the top for decade$, and they built pyramid$ with the money, and they blew the money on tuplip pyramid$ made of $pread$heet$.
In the world, we have about 3.1/6.4 BILLION living on appx. $2.50 a day, or less. We have about 5.1/6.4 BILLION living on appx. 10 bucks a day or less. How many of these people buy 20 dollar or 80 dollar shirts? sneakers? paint for a 4 room apartment or house? airplane tickets? motel rooms? suv tires?
2 or $2.50 or 10 Bucks a Day
WHO CARES IF THE RICH ALL GET PISSED OFF FOR PAYING THEIR SHARE OF THE COMMUNITIES' COSTS?
Let them move their business to the European Union! ha ha ha. Or, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, China, India - there i$ $oooooooooo much money to made from people living on 10 bucks a day!
WHO NEEDS DEMOCRATIC 'LEADERS' LOOKING OUT FOR THE RICH?
Keep an accounting of what you'll pledge to get rid of sell outs,
and to keep that accounting you need to start counting now!
PAYBACK OUR $ELL OUT 'LEADER$'!
GET RID OF THEM!!
rmm.