I also think we should direct our anger at our government and not at citizens like you who are frustrated about the direction our government is taking us.
Your's and others' posts stimulated me to call my gov reps this morning. You've done your job well as a citizen. I hope others are stimulated to call their reps as well.
Also, as a side note to detractors, if I hire someone to perform a job, I will damn well supervise that person to ensure that job is done the right way, ie., represent me.
$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL Wed Jan 28 2009 09:58:30 ET
Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the "job stimulus" -- but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases!
The House Democrats' bill includes $335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
In the past, the CDC has used STD education funding for programs that many Members of Congress find objectionable and arguably unrelated to a mission of economic stimulus [such as funding events called 'Booty Call' and 'Great Sex' put on by an organization that received $698,000 in government funds.]
"Whether this funding has merit is not the question; the point is it has no business in an economic plan supposedly focused on job creation," says a stimulated Hill source.
Exactly.
OUR part of government OF,FOR and BY the people doesn't start or end in the voting booth...