How many times have you railed against the Federal spending priorities? How many times have you wished that you held more control over how the government spent the taxes they collected from you?
We currently have an unprecedented chance to control a portion of those taxes. The government has decided to return a chunk of the taxes they have collected from you in the form of a check. I am urging all Kossacks to consider what cause or issue you feel strongly that the government doesn't put enough money into and work to fund those things using the chunk of the Federal Budget you have been handed.
I know times are tough out there - the government wouldn't have started handing out money if it wasn't really bad - but I urge those of you who can afford it to think of the "stimulus check" you receive in this way. As a rare opportunity to have hands-on control as to how your tax dollars are spent.
On a personal level my beautiful niece suffers from Angelman Syndrome - a genetic defect which effects somewhere between 1 in about 200,000 children but research into treatment receives a pathetic amount of funding. I am earmarking a good chunk of the Federal Budget I get to control to this cause.
Instead of fulfilling the government's expectation that we are consumers and that we will all run out and spend he money on consumer goods I urge everyone to behave as citizens and instead apportion as much of your check as you can afford to the things you think the government should spend more money on but doesn't.
If you agree please urge others to do the same. I hope that this opportunity will be a rare people-powered chance to "vote with our dollars" and demonstrate how we the people actually think our tax dollars should be spent versus how they actually are.
=Hiredman