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  Date / Time: 1/29/2009 10:54 PM UTC

  Stop the Maddness
  

  I sent this as an email to everyone I know (my mother told me to).  Please pass it along to everyone you can!!!!
  
  Hi Everyone,
  
  I don't normally do this, but it's important that as many of us as possible are aware of the huge fraud our government is trying to pass off on we the people under the guise of economic recovery.
  
  FACT:  The United States Government does not own one dime of money.  All funds used by the Federal Government must first be confiscated from the American People.  The Federal Government is not an investor, it is not a producer, it is a necessary evil to prevent one person from impinging on the rights of another, and to keep the nation as a whole safe.
  
  FACT:  Last fall the Democrat Congress (in collusion with several Republicans, including President Bush) passed an economic recovery bill that cost more than $750 Billion dollars, after bailing out Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, and several other businesses.  So far, $350 Billion dollars of this money has been spent, and our stock market is still in free fall, foreclosures are still happening, credit is still frozen.  In other words, the money that the government printed and borrowed, and promised to pay back with our money, has not accomplished a single thing that it was intended for.
  
  FACT:  The Congress passed this spending under the cover of "crisis" that demanded immediate action without scrutiny and without question, to avert immediate disaster. 
  
  FACT:  The current Congress and President are claiming the same crisis for a new round of spending that will create 18 new Federal Programs (which will of course require more spending down the line), and is billed as an economic stimulus package.  The stimulus includes $650 Million dollars for converter boxes for people's television sets to assure that everyone can still catch the news after the switch to digital TV.  More than $16 billion to subsidize already subsidized college tuition programs, 1.2 Billion for summer jobs for youth (that's 1.2 Billion for three month jobs), $200 Million for 16,000 jobs in AmericaCorps, and the list goes on and on, adding up to a whopping $850 Billion dollar price tag, before you include the interest which will put this package well over $1 TRILLION dollars.
  
  Congress has already passed this, it's moving to the Senate.  Contact your Senators and tell them to vote NO on this travesty of a bill.  I know the economy is rough.  I know we've hit a bump in the road.  I know people are hurting.  Don't let your government turn this natural cycle of the market into an excuse to make you dependent on them.  They work for you, not the other way around.
  
  For complete information on this bill, links to your government Representative, and analysis of the various parts of this bill, please visit The Key to Happiness.  Please pass this on to as many people as you can, as them to contact their Senators.  This bill not only affects each and every one of us, it will have repercussions for generations to come.  Don't make your grandchildren pay for your government's overreaching today.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Tera Ertz
  
  
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