My letter to my republican congressperson

Government jobs create lots of stimulus - see, "Dam, Hoover" for an example. There are hundreds of projects sponsored by the government which created thousands of jobs. The roads in Virginia is another example. You folks in DC live in a bubble - the majority of your constituents want the stimulus to pass. Additional tax cuts don't work - Bush proved that.

I just wish for ONCE you people down there would put partisanship aside and do what is best for the people of this country. Almost 70 million of us voted for the Obama platform - many more than voted for a continuation of the past 8 years of borrow and spend. And its OUR money, not yours. You don't have to worry - your salary is guaranteed.

I don't mind paying taxes - if they are spent to help our country. The true traitors are those who choose party over progress - who turn their back on what's best for America.

FDR proved that big stimulus spending programs work, and MOST economists agree. This is not the time to be fiscally conservative - it's too late. We must repair the damage of the last few years - budget-breaking tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate welfare, $10 billion a month on the Iraq war, corrupt and incompetent contractors like Halliburton and KBR - the list goes on and on.

Virginia went blue last election for a reason. Maybe you should consider representing a more rural area - I haven't forgotten your quashing the Virginia bridge to Maryland. You have no idea how many additional commuting hours that has cost all of "great unwashed". You listened to the wealthy in Lowe's Island, not to us regular folks.

I urge you to reconsider your negative vote. Consider this - 10th District demographics are changing rapidly, and next election you won't have as many upper-middle class white people voting for you; many of them will have joined the lower middle-class thanks to you and your Republican swift-boaters.

If you're going to send me a form letter response, don't bother. You'll just be wasting taxpayer money, and we wouldn't want to do that, would we?