Dear President Obama: Stop Telling Me to Tell Congress What to Do

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54. No, just seeing the reality of people doing without because they vote against social safety nets. In

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my state the Democrats won the major races, but the 'starving the beast' crowd is still pushing privatization of the things that Democrats want for everyone which privatization does not protect. We are losing public roads to them because they insist that high tolls be paid to their buddies. Now citizens are having to drive many miles out of the way because they can't afford the toll, on roads that were once part of our tax base to maintain.

It is the GOP philosophy that it be that way, not the Democratic Party, and they vote accordingly and resist infrastructure unless they get the contracts. They've made inroad in child protective services and other agencies, and their belief is that first, these aren't needed, that jail and the streets is where these people belong. Why do I say this? I read their letters to the editors, listen to their arguments in th legislature and city council meetings.

Have you ever been involved in organizing to save schools, parks, housing, services for the vulnerable or needy, or anything like that? Do you stand aloof and look down on those who do?

There is a black and white when you are dealing with people who campaign against labor unions, public workers, public assistance and health care. We have a half and half and in our state legislature, and when people call the parties the same, or want people to not speak out to the people they worked to elect to effect the policies they ran, on what is the result of that?

Is your solution to not do anything but vote once every four years, no matter what changes occur from natural disaster, long term disaster rom lack of funding from recalcitrant groups who fight you at any turn?

That is your right, but that attitude didn't elect Obama. In my state, the baggers here are not going by the same name in some public venues, but when you read their campaign literature, it has all the buzzwords. There are a lot of lies and shenanigans going on, in fact we had the GOP going around trying to con people out of their votes to toss in the trash no doubt. The Democrats are not doing that, so that's not media hype, but reality,

When these folks are elected, they obstruct and cut everything. The groups that organize and speak to their GOP representatives from churches put forth anti-abortion, anti-morning after pills, anti- same sex rights, and anti-public schools measures on the ballot. They have publicly announced that they intend to stop the flow of taxes because they want 'government reduced to the size it can be drowned in a bathtub.'

Just because we are seeing some media stories saying they have lost, does not mean any of them have changed their minds one bit. And they are organizing daily. They want for example, to have public schools shut down, to be replaced with religious schools and charters. If we don't continue to support what we say we believe in, their voices are not going to go away. I've been in a lot of meeting with real people who will go the distance to defeat all the things that Democrats believe, I don't need to go to freeper sites or brag about winning with them. I see them face to face. Where did you get that notion that this is my focus, even if we do cut up here at DU, that is Democratic U, anyway?

If you/re peddling not voting/being involved, or some CT about it all being a big joke, that's not what many think. If you don't like my solution, please offer yours other than mocking Obama for asking us to keep on being involved. Any research of experience dealing with real life GOP shows they are not refusing to get involved or call their representatives, which we have he same right to do. There is something to win or lose, when you live a life involved with people they care about,