Imagine for a moment that your boss sternly evaluates your job performance, admonishes you for neglecting-even rejecting-your responsibilities, and gives you one final chance to get it right. Now imagine flippantly disregarding everything he said. How much longer do you think you’d be welcome at work?
If you’re a member of Congress, the answer apparently is indefinitely.
Right now, majority members of Congress are advancing a government takeover of health care. You told them not to-nearly 9 million times-through “Send Congress a Pink Slip,” the grassroots effort organized by WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah and WND columnist Janet Porter.
Now, it’s time to break the 10-million mark. But this final push is not about putting them on notice. It’s not a polite warning. It is simple, common-sense advice. Members of Congress: Tidy up your resumes. Don’t hang any new pictures on your office walls. We the people-your employers-have spoken. Your “service” is no longer needed. The rest of your term is a mere formality. You’ll soon join the tens of millions of jobless Americans. And you have no one to blame but yourself.
Certainly, they can’t deny receiving fair warning. The pink slip campaign showed Congress far more courtesy than its members usually afford the American public. At $29.95, just 6 cents per message, Fed Ex delivers all 535 members of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate an alert that their jobs were in jeopardy. All they had to do was:
- Stop spending
- Back off the business-killing cap-and-trade legislation
- Not criminalize free speech with the “hate crimes” legislation
- Forget about socializing health care
Most responded with scorn for you, your family and our Constitution. They persisted in pursuing policies that bury us in foreign debt. They squandered the economic opportunities of our children. They cited fraudulent junk science to regulate our breath. They voted to shut down speech that condemns immoral behavior-or even calls it such. Finally-under pressure from the president-they aligned to adopt a government-run health system destined to ration care, downgrade service and bureaucratize life-and-death treatment.
“Add to the unprecedented power grab because of ‘climate change,’” said Farah, “the imminent government takeover of America’s health-care industry, ‘hate crimes’ legislation and a dozen other extra-constitutional actions of this Congress and this president and you begin to get an appreciation of the fact that the U.S. government is no longer acting within the framework of the rule of law and the will of the people.”
The onslaught of support for the campaign has twice wiped out supplies of pink paper across North America. As boxes of “Send Congress a Pink Slip” notices piled up in their offices, many members of Congress embraced the effort.
Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Steve King, R-Iowa, Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Tom Price, R-Ga., Todd Akin, R-Mo.,and Louis Gohmert, R-Texas and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., praised the program’s results.
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz at a press conference
“The pink slip campaign serves as a good reminder of the unavoidable fact that every member of Congress answers to their constituents and that they ignore their voices at their own peril,” Akin said.
Still, most of the increasingly elitist-minded members of Congress did ignore them-even though if all the pink slips Congress has received were stacked, the pile would be more than half a mile tall and tower over the tallest buildings in the world. Laid end to end, they would extend over nearly two-thirds of the American continent, from Washington into the Rockies.
The New Year holds great promise, it’s an election year. But you don’t have to delay gratification until your vote reaches the ballot box.
“Send Congress a Pink Slip,” and let them know you paid close attention to their work ethic, tried to correct their mistakes-but in the end, their performance proved that they just weren’t right for the job.
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