Thank you letter to our Reps--who voted "NO"

This could be used from the C4L site. Just add brief thank you at beginning.

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We now need to turn our attention to getting our financial system back on its feet.

1.) End the Bailouts - Congress must revoke the Federal Reserve’s authority to bail out failed businesses at our expense.

2.) Cut Taxes and Curb Regulation - If we really want to stimulate businesses and revive the market, we need to cut corporate and capital gains taxes, spurring investors to come back to the market and making it easier to attract new workers and clients. It is also time to end failed legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley, which has crippled capital markets, diminished our competitiveness, and greatly harmed small businesses.

3.) Reduce Spending - We must freeze all non-entitlement spending by the federal government at current levels and eliminate wasteful spending both domestically and in our trillion-dollar overseas budget. Our debt has to come down, and it won’t until we start living within our means.

4.) Reform the Monetary System - If we are to have long-term economic progress, we must end the system of printing money out of thin air. The current laws limiting the circulation of gold and silver-backed currency must be overturned. We can no longer base our money on the empty promises of bureaucrats that it is sound.

The market will have to adjust, and the nation will have to deal with the effects of what the government has brought upon us, but the answer is not to weaken the dollar, continue to sell our debt and national security to China and Saudi Arabia, and socialize what remains of the American free market.

The House of Representatives rejected the $700 billion bailout plan Monday. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) was one of 228 congressmen who voted against the plan.

"I listened to my constituents and to my own thinking that now is not the time to call on people across the country to bail out Wall Street," he told Madeleine Brand shortly after the vote. "I thought this was very much like the Iraq War, like the Patriot Act, like several other things in Congress that had been fueled by fear and hinged on haste. This was really one idea about how to address this problem to the exclusion of all others."