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RE: I called my representatives
By tayb on 4/26/2012 3:58:38 PM , Rating: 5
The quick retreat on SOPA/PIPA makes me believe they do. Congress pays more attention to constituents phone calls than any other form of communication because they know people who will pick up the phone and call are the same people who will go out and vote. It's easy to email and it's easy to sign a petition.

RE: I called my representatives
By TSS on 4/27/2012 6:21:10 PM , Rating: 1
Call me a cynic, but i belive they listen to the news, not the people. There was a large outcry yes, but that outcry was also widely covered. Don't forget how far SOPA got before the outcry became loud. It's not like there wheren't any protesters before that.

Protests fueled news coverage which fueled more protests and so on.

Now don't get me wrong, i do think protesting is important. I'm just saying politicians aren't as quick to listen when there is something else on the news.

Go ahead. Call your representative, and ask them what they think of the fact that it took obama from november 4th to januari 20th to transition into president, while geithner is saying the national debt will hit the debt ceiling after the elections, but within this calender year. So probably in a full transitional period. And this time with debt to GDP at 100%+, so you'll need to cut more.

Did i mention a bipartisan supercommitee took 3 months, then still failed? because of which automatic cuts are still supposed to go into effect on januari 1st 2013, unless congress and the president do something about it. And that failed on a amount of $1.2 trillion over a decade while running a $1.2+ trillion deficit a year.

Maybe you should vote republican because if theres a divided house and senate when that shitstorm hits it might just be the big one. I mean it's going to be shit either way, but that might buy you a few months....

