9/12 Movement: "Send Congress A Pink Slip"

The 9/12 movement showed up in large numbers (somewhere between 12 and 80 squillion, I'm told), but Congress, they say, still has not received the memo.

The new site SendCongressAPinkSlip.com wants you to do just that, send them a message that you want less government spending, no public health care option, no cap-and-trade legislation, and generally less government involvement in the lives of Americans.

And when they say "Send Congress A Pink Slip," it's not a metaphor. You can, for the price of $29.95, send them an actual pink slip.

From the WorldNetDaily Superstore:

The "pink slip" each official will get is a reminder that they work for the taxpayers. Each is individually printed with the sender's contact information under the closing salutation "Signed, Your Employer:".
The warning lists four key issues that are deemed unacceptable to program participants:

• government health care
• cap and trade
• "hate crimes"
• any more spending

"If you vote for any of these, your real pink slip will be issued in the next election," it warns.

Here's what it looks like:

Agree or disagree? Should we vote them all out and start over?

Comments

[Humanistic]

10:42 PM on 09/29/2009

But the thing is...they (Congresspersons) typically don't work for us! They work mainly for the special interests that fund their campaigns. And they certainly don't work for a small minority that doesn't want (notice it's all negative) the government to lead us toward greater economic and social justice and a correction of detrimental energy policy.

If the authors of this Pink Slip would just focus on making the financial industry accountable for its misdeeds that required the massive bailouts, maybe they would get more attention from lawmakers. But instead, they had to throw in social issues like abortion and gay rights. The majority Democratic representatives will turn a deaf ear. The notion of "do nothing about energy and the environment" is long past being absurdly ignorant of reality.

"Any more spending" -- well, how about Defense spending? Next to Entitlements, that's the biggest chunk of the budget which amounts to 4 - 7 times the proposed Health Care Reforms. And completing the Stimulus spending is absolutely essential to the likelihood of a recovery of employment.

These people just can't accept the outcome of the last two elections. OK, let's just see them turn it around in 2010! For the most part, the pendulum of public opinion has swung away from their outmoded views.