Write your Senators!

Please write or call your Senator and encourage them to vote NO on the stimulus (porkulous) bill.  You can find contanct information here.  I sent this to mine:

Dear Senator,

You have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.  May I remind you of the words delivered by James Madison to Congress in 1794: “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”  The current stimulus package is nothing more than an exercise in government charity, passing out its citizen’s money to innumerable earmarked benefactors.  It is unconstitutional, not to mention immoral, to extend financial favors to one group and not another.  It is reprehensible to do so in the name of economic stimulus.  Spending billions on STD awareness, DC area landscaping, off-road vehicle courses, Amtrak, and digital TV coupons, will not by even the most lucid imagination, make the tiniest dent in the current recession.  Please consider the American people first and the free market principles on which our nation was founded above that of Democratic campaign contributors.  Set the business owner and the entrepreneur free from the economic shackles our bloated government has constrained them in.  Let us keep the money we have rightfully earned, and the economy will flourish, as history has shown.  If we are truly in an “era of responsibility,” as President Obama has deemed it, allow businesses and citizens to be held responsible for their own actions.  If we are truly a free society, then failure must be a possible result of risk.  Corporate and individual bailouts are not the answer, but a sad symptom of a society obsessed with entitlement, refusing to acknowledge personal responsibility.  Please do not saddle our grandchildren with the consequences of yet another in a series of never ending government mistakes.

Please vote NO on the stimulus package.

Thank you.