My letter to my congressman and Senetors, what do you think of it?

[Daverz]

Your letter rambles a bit and could be more succinct. Also, I think it would be more constructive to bring alternative solutions to their attention, like own-to-rent.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

At least 50 % of the price of gasoline is due to speculation and has nothing to do with the true demand for oil. It blows my mind that just these few people were allowed to make the entire country poor so that they could get very, very rich. It also blows my mind that these people get rich then have the nerve to ask for taxpayers’ money when they are in financial trouble.

This part of your manifesto detracts from the issue of housing. The notion that a few people speculating in oil pushed the price up by 50% is unfounded. Further, the idea that these few people are making the entire country poor while making themselves very, very rich is sophomoric.

I think you are wasting your time, but generally it is better to have a succinct two-paragraph explanation of the issue.

Also, letters to congresspersons should never include the phrase “blows my mind” more than once.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

At least 50 % of the price of gasoline is due to speculation and has nothing to do with the true demand for oil. It blows my mind that just these few people were allowed to make the entire country poor so that they could get very, very rich. It also blows my mind that these people get rich then have the nerve to ask for taxpayers’ money when they are in financial trouble.

This part of your manifesto detracts from the issue of housing. The notion that a few people speculating in oil pushed the price up by 50% is unfounded. Further, the idea that these few people are making the entire country poor while making themselves very, very rich is sophomoric.

I think you are wasting your time, but generally it is better to have a succinct two-paragraph explanation of the issue.

Also, letters to congresspersons should never include the phrase “blows my mind” more than once.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

At least 50 % of the price of gasoline is due to speculation and has nothing to do with the true demand for oil. It blows my mind that just these few people were allowed to make the entire country poor so that they could get very, very rich. It also blows my mind that these people get rich then have the nerve to ask for taxpayers’ money when they are in financial trouble.

This part of your manifesto detracts from the issue of housing. The notion that a few people speculating in oil pushed the price up by 50% is unfounded. Further, the idea that these few people are making the entire country poor while making themselves very, very rich is sophomoric.

I think you are wasting your time, but generally it is better to have a succinct two-paragraph explanation of the issue.

Also, letters to congresspersons should never include the phrase “blows my mind” more than once.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

At least 50 % of the price of gasoline is due to speculation and has nothing to do with the true demand for oil. It blows my mind that just these few people were allowed to make the entire country poor so that they could get very, very rich. It also blows my mind that these people get rich then have the nerve to ask for taxpayers’ money when they are in financial trouble.

This part of your manifesto detracts from the issue of housing. The notion that a few people speculating in oil pushed the price up by 50% is unfounded. Further, the idea that these few people are making the entire country poor while making themselves very, very rich is sophomoric.

I think you are wasting your time, but generally it is better to have a succinct two-paragraph explanation of the issue.

Also, letters to congresspersons should never include the phrase “blows my mind” more than once.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

At least 50 % of the price of gasoline is due to speculation and has nothing to do with the true demand for oil. It blows my mind that just these few people were allowed to make the entire country poor so that they could get very, very rich. It also blows my mind that these people get rich then have the nerve to ask for taxpayers’ money when they are in financial trouble.

This part of your manifesto detracts from the issue of housing. The notion that a few people speculating in oil pushed the price up by 50% is unfounded. Further, the idea that these few people are making the entire country poor while making themselves very, very rich is sophomoric.

I think you are wasting your time, but generally it is better to have a succinct two-paragraph explanation of the issue.

Also, letters to congresspersons should never include the phrase “blows my mind” more than once.

[DWCAP]

Too long and full of emotion. People in politics get these type of letters all day long. Some staffer in the back office who is doing this as an unpaid internship and met the politican once on photo op day will be the one reading it. Then, they will print of the prescribed form letter that has been approved but doesnt address your points at all and call it a day.

If you want any hope at all,

1) make it shorter. As my boss says all the time, “do you really expect ME to ‘Read’ this?”

2) cut the indignation parts out. simply state that bailouts for wall street smack of favoritism and you do not support that.

3) watch out for the oil thing. No one knows how much oil is actually fundamentally worth right now, and it is too easy to write someone who is espouting none verifiable information off.

4) rewrite the last paragraph. Democrats think they are protecting the middle class by their current actions, not hurting them.

5)Dont say prices need to come down, cause it says that YOU need them to come down, and then why should they bail you out just like you hate they bailed wall street out. Say that the real problem with housing in SD is unaffordablilty, not falling prices, and that nothing will be better until the affordablility issue is resolved.

6)find alot of other people like you, and send them all together. This shows you are organized. Get 15-20 friends/family/neighbors/coworkers and have them sign similar letters. Alot of politicans assume that no matter what they do, some yahoo is gonna hate it. When grass roots organized groups get in touch, and have the financial resources (6 figures) to back it up, they will lissen.

I once heard that they assume that 1 letter represents 10 votes, you send in 20+ letters, at 200+ votes, and the staffer opening your letter and printing off form responses may actually be paid!

[DWCAP]

Too long and full of emotion. People in politics get these type of letters all day long. Some staffer in the back office who is doing this as an unpaid internship and met the politican once on photo op day will be the one reading it. Then, they will print of the prescribed form letter that has been approved but doesnt address your points at all and call it a day.

If you want any hope at all,

1) make it shorter. As my boss says all the time, “do you really expect ME to ‘Read’ this?”

2) cut the indignation parts out. simply state that bailouts for wall street smack of favoritism and you do not support that.

3) watch out for the oil thing. No one knows how much oil is actually fundamentally worth right now, and it is too easy to write someone who is espouting none verifiable information off.

4) rewrite the last paragraph. Democrats think they are protecting the middle class by their current actions, not hurting them.

5)Dont say prices need to come down, cause it says that YOU need them to come down, and then why should they bail you out just like you hate they bailed wall street out. Say that the real problem with housing in SD is unaffordablilty, not falling prices, and that nothing will be better until the affordablility issue is resolved.

6)find alot of other people like you, and send them all together. This shows you are organized. Get 15-20 friends/family/neighbors/coworkers and have them sign similar letters. Alot of politicans assume that no matter what they do, some yahoo is gonna hate it. When grass roots organized groups get in touch, and have the financial resources (6 figures) to back it up, they will lissen.

I once heard that they assume that 1 letter represents 10 votes, you send in 20+ letters, at 200+ votes, and the staffer opening your letter and printing off form responses may actually be paid!

[DWCAP]

Too long and full of emotion. People in politics get these type of letters all day long. Some staffer in the back office who is doing this as an unpaid internship and met the politican once on photo op day will be the one reading it. Then, they will print of the prescribed form letter that has been approved but doesnt address your points at all and call it a day.

If you want any hope at all,

1) make it shorter. As my boss says all the time, “do you really expect ME to ‘Read’ this?”

2) cut the indignation parts out. simply state that bailouts for wall street smack of favoritism and you do not support that.

3) watch out for the oil thing. No one knows how much oil is actually fundamentally worth right now, and it is too easy to write someone who is espouting none verifiable information off.

4) rewrite the last paragraph. Democrats think they are protecting the middle class by their current actions, not hurting them.

5)Dont say prices need to come down, cause it says that YOU need them to come down, and then why should they bail you out just like you hate they bailed wall street out. Say that the real problem with housing in SD is unaffordablilty, not falling prices, and that nothing will be better until the affordablility issue is resolved.

6)find alot of other people like you, and send them all together. This shows you are organized. Get 15-20 friends/family/neighbors/coworkers and have them sign similar letters. Alot of politicans assume that no matter what they do, some yahoo is gonna hate it. When grass roots organized groups get in touch, and have the financial resources (6 figures) to back it up, they will lissen.

I once heard that they assume that 1 letter represents 10 votes, you send in 20+ letters, at 200+ votes, and the staffer opening your letter and printing off form responses may actually be paid!

[DWCAP]

Too long and full of emotion. People in politics get these type of letters all day long. Some staffer in the back office who is doing this as an unpaid internship and met the politican once on photo op day will be the one reading it. Then, they will print of the prescribed form letter that has been approved but doesnt address your points at all and call it a day.

If you want any hope at all,

1) make it shorter. As my boss says all the time, “do you really expect ME to ‘Read’ this?”

2) cut the indignation parts out. simply state that bailouts for wall street smack of favoritism and you do not support that.

3) watch out for the oil thing. No one knows how much oil is actually fundamentally worth right now, and it is too easy to write someone who is espouting none verifiable information off.

4) rewrite the last paragraph. Democrats think they are protecting the middle class by their current actions, not hurting them.

5)Dont say prices need to come down, cause it says that YOU need them to come down, and then why should they bail you out just like you hate they bailed wall street out. Say that the real problem with housing in SD is unaffordablilty, not falling prices, and that nothing will be better until the affordablility issue is resolved.

6)find alot of other people like you, and send them all together. This shows you are organized. Get 15-20 friends/family/neighbors/coworkers and have them sign similar letters. Alot of politicans assume that no matter what they do, some yahoo is gonna hate it. When grass roots organized groups get in touch, and have the financial resources (6 figures) to back it up, they will lissen.

I once heard that they assume that 1 letter represents 10 votes, you send in 20+ letters, at 200+ votes, and the staffer opening your letter and printing off form responses may actually be paid!

[DWCAP]

Too long and full of emotion. People in politics get these type of letters all day long. Some staffer in the back office who is doing this as an unpaid internship and met the politican once on photo op day will be the one reading it. Then, they will print of the prescribed form letter that has been approved but doesnt address your points at all and call it a day.

If you want any hope at all,

1) make it shorter. As my boss says all the time, “do you really expect ME to ‘Read’ this?”

2) cut the indignation parts out. simply state that bailouts for wall street smack of favoritism and you do not support that.

3) watch out for the oil thing. No one knows how much oil is actually fundamentally worth right now, and it is too easy to write someone who is espouting none verifiable information off.

4) rewrite the last paragraph. Democrats think they are protecting the middle class by their current actions, not hurting them.

5)Dont say prices need to come down, cause it says that YOU need them to come down, and then why should they bail you out just like you hate they bailed wall street out. Say that the real problem with housing in SD is unaffordablilty, not falling prices, and that nothing will be better until the affordablility issue is resolved.

6)find alot of other people like you, and send them all together. This shows you are organized. Get 15-20 friends/family/neighbors/coworkers and have them sign similar letters. Alot of politicans assume that no matter what they do, some yahoo is gonna hate it. When grass roots organized groups get in touch, and have the financial resources (6 figures) to back it up, they will lissen.

I once heard that they assume that 1 letter represents 10 votes, you send in 20+ letters, at 200+ votes, and the staffer opening your letter and printing off form responses may actually be paid!

[CA renter]

DWCAP has some good suggestions (as do the others).

In your third paragraph, you say:

Bear Sterns, Freddie Mack, Fannie May Indy Mac, Country Wide, all speculated that housing prices will increase infinitely.

Not trying to play teacher here, but you were asking for advice, so the spellings here need to be corrected.

“Freddie Mac”, “Fannie Mae”, and “Countrywide” are the correct spellings for these names.

Good for you for writing your representatives, everyone on the housing blogs should be doing this (and calling and faxing), IMHO. Don’t be offended when you get the standard “thanks for writing” letter, though. That’s just what they do (ignore their constituents).

[CA renter]

DWCAP has some good suggestions (as do the others).

In your third paragraph, you say:

Bear Sterns, Freddie Mack, Fannie May Indy Mac, Country Wide, all speculated that housing prices will increase infinitely.

Not trying to play teacher here, but you were asking for advice, so the spellings here need to be corrected.

“Freddie Mac”, “Fannie Mae”, and “Countrywide” are the correct spellings for these names.

Good for you for writing your representatives, everyone on the housing blogs should be doing this (and calling and faxing), IMHO. Don’t be offended when you get the standard “thanks for writing” letter, though. That’s just what they do (ignore their constituents).

[CA renter]

DWCAP has some good suggestions (as do the others).

In your third paragraph, you say:

Bear Sterns, Freddie Mack, Fannie May Indy Mac, Country Wide, all speculated that housing prices will increase infinitely.

Not trying to play teacher here, but you were asking for advice, so the spellings here need to be corrected.

“Freddie Mac”, “Fannie Mae”, and “Countrywide” are the correct spellings for these names.

Good for you for writing your representatives, everyone on the housing blogs should be doing this (and calling and faxing), IMHO. Don’t be offended when you get the standard “thanks for writing” letter, though. That’s just what they do (ignore their constituents).

[CA renter]

DWCAP has some good suggestions (as do the others).

In your third paragraph, you say:

Bear Sterns, Freddie Mack, Fannie May Indy Mac, Country Wide, all speculated that housing prices will increase infinitely.

Not trying to play teacher here, but you were asking for advice, so the spellings here need to be corrected.

“Freddie Mac”, “Fannie Mae”, and “Countrywide” are the correct spellings for these names.

Good for you for writing your representatives, everyone on the housing blogs should be doing this (and calling and faxing), IMHO. Don’t be offended when you get the standard “thanks for writing” letter, though. That’s just what they do (ignore their constituents).

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