Text of Letter Delivered to Senators Specter, Collins and Snowe by Freepers Today(Porkulus)

Monday, February 9, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Jim Robinson delivered the following letter to the offices of Senators Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe this morning.

The Honorable Arlen Specter
711 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Sen. Specter,

On behalf of the several hundred thousand members of FreeRepublic.com, I urge you to vote against cloture and passage of the so-called stimulus bill, or as we call it, the Porkulus Bill.

We appreciate your good faith efforts on improving the bill. However, statements by your Democratic colleagues show that they have no intention of abiding by the compromises negotiated with you. In short, the Democrats are playing you and the American people for suckers.

This bill needs to be stopped. If passed, it will pile so much debt on our citizens, with more indebtedness to come with TARP and the omnibus bill, that they will become slaves to that debt and slaves to government.

As you reflect on your votes today and tomorrow, I ask you to consider what our Founding Fathers would do in this situation. Would they sacrifice and endure short term pain for the good of the Nation, or would they vote to enslave future generations with unsustainable debt for short term gain?

May God save America from its government,

James C. Robinson
Founder and President
FreeRepublic.com
Veteran, United States Navy

FreeRepublic.com
P.O. Box 9771
Fresno, CA 93794

[Doogle]

Our savings won't be worth spit.

what's left of our savings

[SuperLuminal]

bttt

[luvie]

Good letter, Philly! I hope he ponders what you said and
acts accordingly...by rejecting this obscene piece of garbage!

Thanks for sharing it with us!

[philly-d-kidder]

I heard Specter on Hannity and then he called into the local show with Dom Giordano.. wpht just hung up!

His mantra Now is I had to do Something he got 10 Billion into NIH Budget He Gets his cancer treatments there...he wants to live forever. But he said at west Chester university in 2004 we are getting to the Point where we will be settin g up a scoring system and we cash in people who are a Drain on Medicare...dpending on age Life expectancy and expenditures in the Health system. This guy is one of them!

http://www.thebigtalker1210.com/

[StarFan]

Fabulous letter. Thanks to everyone who represented us today.

[NordP]

EXCELLENT - thank you all sooooooo much!!!!!!!!!

[hocndoc]

Brava! Thank you for standing for our children and (Lord willing) grand children.

[hocndoc]

Jim and Kristinn are shouting for us.

[rodguy911]

Thanks so much for going. You stood up for many of us who wanted to be there and your efforts are very much appreciated!

[beachn4fun]

Thank you for being the voice for those who were unable to attend. Waiting anxiously for play-by-play of how it went.

[Alamo-Girl]

Kudos and bump!

[unspun]

But are those three really just useful idiots, or are they knowingly with the enemy?

http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2009/02/fascist-war-against-america-geithner-to.html

[michaelmc]

Dear Jim - While I appreciate your “efforts” to Specter, Collins and Snowe - I must tell you how very disappointed I am in you. When are you and the conservative leadership in this country going to quit playing “patty-cake” with these people and really do something about it. Quite frankly, I am sick and tied of the BS letters that fall on deaf ears of Congress. They have gotten away with these tactics for decades because no one EVER really does anything about it. Stand up Man! It’s time for the people who support these jerks to call in their dues. If they can’t vote with us, then it’s time to get them out; stop funding them through the RNC; stop working for them in their states. Better a true enemy, than a false friend!

[highlander_UW]

That precisely represents my opinion, great job.

[aruanan]

Well, here's what I wrote to John Effing Kerry:

I just heard your remarks about tax cuts being "non-targeted" and that there is no assurance that people who keep their own money as a tax cut will spend it on things that YOU guys in the government want. Well, tough crap. IT'S NOT YOUR MONEY!!!

We already know that big tax cuts (not Obama's phony tax cuts that are actually income transfer payments) will turn around an economy in a very short time. Learn history! The Adam Smith tax cuts in England that led to a 100 year bull market, the Mellon tax cuts in the 1920s, the Kennedy tax cuts in the 1960s, the Reagan tax cuts in the 1980s, the Bush tax cuts in the 2000s all reinvigorated the economy until you guys in the federal government choked the goose laying the golden eggs through excessive taxes and spending.

Remember that the Declaration of Independence is the founding document of the United States. It was a declaration of independence from types of government like you guys, the socialist Democrats (and three Republican Senators), are trying to impose on this nation. Keep your hands off our country.

[nutmeg]

"May God save America from its government"

I absolutely love that! I hope you don't mind... I've been using that same closing in my e-mails to various members of Congress. It's just perfect.

[Ahithophel]

Excellent!