Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Hope won!!!!!!! and dear change.gov #1 & 2
what a year!!!....i have been blogging mostly at Washington Outsiders and here is the election day celebration here in Ferndale...
since the caucus in february thru the election Democrats have stepped up....the office was a hub of activity with calls being made.....there was an excitement i've not seen before and the young folks getting involved has been an inspiration in tough times.....
our work has just begun....we must push our representatives to do the right thing and get their back when they do....
i have begun to communicate with the administration-elect at change.gov ...... i will take them at their word and will be communicating regularly....i will post these communications here...even if i am the only one who ever reads it.....
#1 was regarding the auto industry bailout(didn't save).....i would like to see strings attached....fuel standards way up...not some token 29 in 10 years or something....also smaller cars....lot's O' barrels of oil use to make one vehicle. (soooo bit my tongue here, we should be making car bodies out of hemp ..it's stronger, renewable and can be composted when the car is done.....so we'll save that for another day....all you have to do is say "hemp" to an elected official and watch them start scanning the room for the exit) we need the jobs and transportation. we just need to adjust our lifestyle like our lives and childrens lives depend on it!!!...our planet cannot sustain our current consumption of resources.
since the caucus in february thru the election Democrats have stepped up....the office was a hub of activity with calls being made.....there was an excitement i've not seen before and the young folks getting involved has been an inspiration in tough times.....
our work has just begun....we must push our representatives to do the right thing and get their back when they do....
i have begun to communicate with the administration-elect at change.gov ...... i will take them at their word and will be communicating regularly....i will post these communications here...even if i am the only one who ever reads it.....
#2 the economy and environment
i liked your plan to allow us to withdraw $10,000 from our retirement accounts without penalty or taxes. i will be withdrawing it anyway but it could really help. this year at 60 1/2 i had no penalty but taxes. i invested in a new roof this year. great
investment and i employed a young contractor in my community.
also appoint Robert Kennedy Jr to the best position you have to affect environmental policy.
we need to immediately add the externalities to the price of energy production and resource use and immediately all the right practices are winners in the market. and that's without absorbitant subsidy.http://washouts.blogspot.com/2008/08/myth-of-clean-coal.html
thankspeggy borgens PCO Ferndale 118
#1 was regarding the auto industry bailout(didn't save).....i would like to see strings attached....fuel standards way up...not some token 29 in 10 years or something....also smaller cars....lot's O' barrels of oil use to make one vehicle. (soooo bit my tongue here, we should be making car bodies out of hemp ..it's stronger, renewable and can be composted when the car is done.....so we'll save that for another day....all you have to do is say "hemp" to an elected official and watch them start scanning the room for the exit) we need the jobs and transportation. we just need to adjust our lifestyle like our lives and childrens lives depend on it!!!...our planet cannot sustain our current consumption of resources.
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