Today, Crossroads GPS reached out to me through a Youtube Video, asking me to contact Sherrod Brown about the problem of reckless spending.
It's not just Senator Brown being targeted. There are videos for Missouri, Florida, Montana, and Nebraska as well.
So I did, below the fold.
I just received a paid Youtube message from Crossroads GPS encouraging me to write your office about reckless spending. So I am.
We need MORE reckless spending. Please vote FOR any and all reckless spending bills, especially if Crossroads GPS is lobbying against them.
Perhaps "reckless" isn't the word here, but we have more than 10% of the population out of work, people losing confidence in the economy, and a crippling malaise in the middle class. Surely, if we can afford $4 trillion in Bush tax cuts over the next decade, we can also afford to spend the $3 trillion we need to repair our infrastructure.
I know that doesn't make sense. But, frankly, neither does the theater in Washington right now, with both parties trying to decide how many jobs the government should shed during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Thank you for your work and I hope you will vote YES on any reckless spending.
Maybe it's not the best "messaging" or the best "optics," but our Senators and Representatives need to know that the economy needs spending and we want spending. Reckless or not, dropping bails of money into downtown Detroit would do more to help the economy then any amount of austerity.
Let Congress know that Rove's messaging doesn't sway everyone and that no messaging in the world makes up for having a new job. Let them know spending can only be reckless when we don't need it, when times are good and our citizens are working. Let them know the truly "reckless" course of action is firing government workers whose jobs will not be replaced, dragging us deeper into a recession.
I'm for Reckless Spending, how about you?