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Originally posted by Pikachu_PM:
A) Then write your own senator and congressman
B) Your wrong...Most Senators and Congressman are actually very decent people--statesmen if you will--and will consider any well written argument that comes before them.
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A) goes against your original idea (which was for all of us to write the same two or three people).
B) The job of a congressman is to represent his constituents. If he is listening to everyone in the peanut gallery then he isn't doing his job. Have you ever written a congressman before? The various times that I have written them, most of those who were outside New York sent me replies that could summed up as "What you say is nice and all, but you can't help me get re-elected, so I don't really care what you have to say". There isn't really anything wrong with this in a lot of cases, the Iowa senator who votes against an ethanol subsidy because a bunch of people from Texas don't like it isn't doing his job. (For those who don't know why I picked this example, Ethanol is made from corn, so it is a boon for farmers who grow corn. However, it tends to lower profits for oil companies, so people with an interest in the oil industry dislike it.)