On JUNK MAIL!
And look at the allegedly objective and impartial media rip the Democrats more than the Republicans, readers!
Tired of AmeriKa's shit War Dailies, readers!
"House spends big on home mailings; Analysis traced use of $20.3m in '06 tax funds" by Dennis Conrad, Associated Press | December 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - US House members spent $20.3 million in tax money last year to send constituents what is often the government equivalent of junk mail - meeting announcements, tips on car care and job interviews, surveys on public policy, and just plain bragging.
They sent nearly 116 million pieces of mail in all, many of them glossy productions filled with flattering photos and lists of the latest roads and bridges the lawmaker has brought home to the district, an Associated Press a review of public records shows.
Some offered advice on topics one would more commonly expect to see in a consumer advice column.
Representative Tim Murphy, a Pennsylvania Republican, in a newsletter on how to deal with rising energy prices, suggested:
"Keep your car properly maintained [to improve mileage]."
And Representative Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat who lost her primary race last year, sent out a taxpayer-funded newsletter a few months before the election that included this observation: "Convicted felons can vote," she said, if "your" prison sentence has been served, parole or probation completed, and fines paid. While campaigning, McKinney, who is black, noted that blacks make up a disproportionately large share of the prison population, which she said dilutes their voting strength.
A dozen House members spent about $133,000 each to send 9.8 million pieces of mass mailings. Total cost? $1.8 million. Sometimes the lawmakers' taxpayer-funded mailings topped what they paid for direct mail through their campaign funds.
Of the 64 House members with at least $100,000 in taxpayer-funded mailing expenses - and overwhelmingly for mass mailings - 42 were Republicans and 22 were Democrats.
And yet they cite two+ paragraphs of Democrat transgressions!
Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers' Union:
"A glossy newsletter splashed with the incumbent's achievements in Congress can build useful credentials a lawmaker can take with him to the ballot box. The franking privilege is one of the main cogs in Congress's PR machine."
Yeah, it's a P.R. machine down there!
To HELL with the AMERICAN PEOPLE, huh?
As long as you guys can pat yourselves on the back and ship out junk mail to us -- on OUR DIME!!!!
UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Can a Congress be any more DERELICT in it's DUTY?
Time to TAR-and FEATHER the LOT OF THEM!!!!!
VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS, readers, no matter WHICH PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Franking, practiced since the early days of the republic, lets members of Congress send mail with just a signature where the postage would normally be affixed. Although the mailings are regulated by a congressional commission to guard against overt political appeals and cannot go out within 90 days of an election, they still sometimes take a dig at the opposition.
In a June 2006 newsletter, Representative Pete Stark, Democrat of California, noted that under the Republican majority, Congress had passed tax cuts that "benefit the wealthiest Americans at the expense of working families."
Stark has been a regular among the biggest users of the congressional franking privilege. For 2006, his mass mailings cost $172,357, an amount large enough to rank him among the top congressional mailers. House documents reported his overall mailing costs to be about $37,000 less. The AP received no explanation for the apparent discrepancy.
Yup, that's TWO HUGE paragraphs on another Democrat!
Think this has anything to do with it, readers?
Some lawmakers defend the newsletters as a vital way of communicating with constituents.
WTF?!
Even when you hear us -- like Iraq, for instance -- you scumbags DON'T LISTEN TO US anyway!
I don't need you fucks wasting money on JUNK MAIL!
Representative Ginny Brown-Waite, Republican of Florida:
"One of the biggest complaints my constituents had [with] my predecessor was that they never knew what was going on in Washington. They never had the opportunity to do surveys, etc. I promised I would communicate with them regularly."
That's why we have all the secrecy and shit then, huh?
Pffffffffffttttttt!
Brown-Waite is one of the biggest users of bulk mail, with 657,951 pieces at a cost of $129,428 last year. That surpassed the approximately $110,000 her campaign spent on direct mailings and related costs.
The House Democratic Caucus encourages members to use the mailings to communicate with constituents, spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg said. She said it was a good way for congressmen to focus on an issue or get a handle on what constituents are thinking."
Here is a better way, Congress.
You listening?
END THE FUCKING WARS and IMPEACH this LYING, LAW-BREAKING, TORTURING, MASS-MURDERING, WAR-CRIMINAL PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about that, huh? Congress?
Hello?
HEY!!!!!
And as for this government?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King [George] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."
BETTER START LISTENING TO US, SHITHEADS!!!!!
Or we are COMING FOR YOU, too!!!!!!!!!!
Starting to look FORWARD to it!!!!!!!
