WE'RE IN TOUCH; YOU BE IN TOUCH
July 15, 2011
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Your latest email blast to IL 6th District constituents "Out of Touch", criticizing newly minted Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (Dem, FL) seems stunningly out of touch with the policies you have championed for a political lifetime that led to the economic disaster we face today. You claimed she was out of touch for her comment that Democrats have turned this economy around in spite of continued high unemployment.
Please try and get back in touch with your freshman term in 2007-2008, to get the context of her remark. That was when six years of trillion dollar Bush tax cuts for the wealthy helped push seven million US jobs overseas to further engorge the wealth of the already wealthy. That was when years of deregulating financial institutions allowed them to make trillions of dollars of our treasure disappear almost overnight. That was when the greatest redistribution of wealth from the bottom 90% of workers to the upper 10% of the wealthy reached its peak. That was when millions more of the middle class lost their health insurance or slipped into poverty as the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930's occurred. That was when the last of 5 trillion dollars of new debt was chalked up on the Bush Administration score card. Congressman, you were so in touch with those dubious achievements that you doubled down on them to garner the endless financial support they provide to politicians of your persuasion who stay in touch only with the wealthy and the special interests.
Congressman, were you in touch during your second term of 2009-2010 when a truly remarkable transformation occurred? The Obama Administration, over your and your party’s intransigence, finally achieved a measure of relief for 40 million Americans denied adequate health care. You were out of sight when the President’s economic stimulus program hired or kept working several hundred thousand folks who otherwise would have pushed the unemployment rate to nearly 12%. When the President almost single handedly rescued GM and Chrysler and hundreds of thousands of more jobs, you were on the sidelines cheering on their imminent demise. You ran for cover when the President sheparded through financial reform to put a modicum of brakes on the Wall Street crowd who nearly brought us down.
Now, in your third term, and having risen to Republican Chief Deputy House Whip, there you are practically touching Congressman Eric Cantor during his press appearances as he threatens economic default in order to realize his, and your dream, of a decimated social safety net.
Sir, getting back to your bizarre allegation that Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is out of touch, understand this. Congresswoman Schultz is touching something important to achieving progress that you are not even remotely close to: REALITY.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District resident
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Your latest email blast to IL 6th District constituents "Out of Touch", criticizing newly minted Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (Dem, FL) seems stunningly out of touch with the policies you have championed for a political lifetime that led to the economic disaster we face today. You claimed she was out of touch for her comment that Democrats have turned this economy around in spite of continued high unemployment.
Please try and get back in touch with your freshman term in 2007-2008, to get the context of her remark. That was when six years of trillion dollar Bush tax cuts for the wealthy helped push seven million US jobs overseas to further engorge the wealth of the already wealthy. That was when years of deregulating financial institutions allowed them to make trillions of dollars of our treasure disappear almost overnight. That was when the greatest redistribution of wealth from the bottom 90% of workers to the upper 10% of the wealthy reached its peak. That was when millions more of the middle class lost their health insurance or slipped into poverty as the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930's occurred. That was when the last of 5 trillion dollars of new debt was chalked up on the Bush Administration score card. Congressman, you were so in touch with those dubious achievements that you doubled down on them to garner the endless financial support they provide to politicians of your persuasion who stay in touch only with the wealthy and the special interests.
Congressman, were you in touch during your second term of 2009-2010 when a truly remarkable transformation occurred? The Obama Administration, over your and your party’s intransigence, finally achieved a measure of relief for 40 million Americans denied adequate health care. You were out of sight when the President’s economic stimulus program hired or kept working several hundred thousand folks who otherwise would have pushed the unemployment rate to nearly 12%. When the President almost single handedly rescued GM and Chrysler and hundreds of thousands of more jobs, you were on the sidelines cheering on their imminent demise. You ran for cover when the President sheparded through financial reform to put a modicum of brakes on the Wall Street crowd who nearly brought us down.
Now, in your third term, and having risen to Republican Chief Deputy House Whip, there you are practically touching Congressman Eric Cantor during his press appearances as he threatens economic default in order to realize his, and your dream, of a decimated social safety net.
Sir, getting back to your bizarre allegation that Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is out of touch, understand this. Congresswoman Schultz is touching something important to achieving progress that you are not even remotely close to: REALITY.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District resident
posted by Walt Zlotow at 11:55 AM
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