Take Action: Fight Back for Main Street! Email Congress!

[flpoljunkie]

Fight Back for Main Street!

Pressure from the American public just defeated a bad Wall Street bailout bill, but the battle continues – now! Wall Street and the White House are ratcheting up pressure to dress up the same bad bill and ram it through Congress this week! Congress needs to hear from you NOW, to resist this pressure and take a stand to rebuild Main Street and reign in Wall Street.

Take Action!

Dear (Decision Maker):

Congress did the right thing by rejecting a bailout bill that did too much for Wall Street and too little for Main Street. Don't cave in to Wall Street or White House pressure to ram through similarly flawed legislation. We need a new "New Deal" that rescues Main Street and reigns in Wall Street.

I urge you to support legislation that rebuilds our economy from the bottom up. Specifically, I urge you to:

INVEST IN MAIN STREET: On Main Street, jobs are disappearing, infrastructure is crumbling and local budgets are straining. A $200 billion economic rescue package for Main Street would generate clean American energy, extend unemployment benefits, aid states and localities to avoid debilitating cuts and modernize our crumbling infrastructure.

SAVE THE HOMEOWNERS: Defaulting mortgages are at the heart of the crisis. Keeping deserving people in their homes is critical to shore up Main Street and Wall Street. The bankruptcy courts need to have the power to renegotiate mortgages and reduce foreclosures.

HOLD WALL STREET ACCOUNTABLE: Instead of simply propping up reckless firms, we should establish a Reconstruction Finance Corporation that can take over financial firms, sort out the solvent from the insolvent, close down some and merge others. We also need modern regulation that cracks down on the abuse. And taxpayers deserve preferred shares in any bank or investment house that we are forced to rescue.

Thank you in advance for putting the interests of Main Street first.

http://ga3.org/campaign/fight_back_for_main_street/

[TxBlue]

1. Check out Kaptur / DeFazio's New Plan from Dems

Check out this thread on their news conference today:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7257433&mesg_id=7258398

[flpoljunkie]

3. Yes, I saw Kaptur with fellow progressive Dems and liked what I saw.

[TxBlue]

2. Check this out also

Steve kindly kept us more informed after MSNBC cut us off in middle of press conference

This has a plan for Main Street from Kaptur dems

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7257406

[flpoljunkie]

6. Thanks, TxBlue.

[blue sky at night]

4. I will DO IT!

I did it on Monday a week ago, and you know what!!!???? It freaking WORKED, my douche-bag of a congressman, Stevie (bu$h butt boy) LaTourette listened to me...and a whole lot of other voters AND VOTED NO YESTERDAY!!!! I have to write him to thank him anyway so I will just tack on this new message!!!! Imagine the feeling that your elected official went against the bu$h regime!!!!

[TxBlue]

7. Good feeling, eh? "We Can Do It"

[blue sky at night]

15. Hey TxBlue!!!

First of all; welcome the heck to DU, where have you been all this time?? and hell ya, it is a wonderful feeling...have not felt this way for eight years!!!! Give em hell down there in TX.!!!

[flpoljunkie]

10. Thanks!

[Double T]

5. Done! Thanks for the petition link.

STOP the insanity of giving criminal perpetrators on wall street our hundreds of billions $$$$$ and protect what is left of the crippled future of our nation. Screw bush, cheney , wall street, monopolistic banks and criminal corporate america.

[flpoljunkie]

11. Thank you!

[TxBlue]

8. Reminds me of Pete Seeger

[TxBlue]

9. Our Theme Song: "Don't Say It Can't be Done" by Pete Seeger

Let's focus our energy and 'enough is enough' anger to getting something productive to help Main Street

[gatorboy]

12. Where is Main St. anyway?

I live on East Grand!

[flpoljunkie]

13. Smart ass, gatorboy!

[avaistheone1]

14. The current bailout bill will anly make things worse. You can count on me to

contact Congress. I am mad as hell.

[TxBlue]

16. Great Link on DeFazio other dems plan for economy MUST READ

http://www.loadedorygun.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=1378

[flpoljunkie]

17. Kick!

[TxBlue]

18. K&R