From Eric’s Grumbles Before The Grave, comes this idea about using an old method to send a message to our Crongress critters.
So, here’s the idea. Many Americans are completely disgusted with the government right now and feel, rightly, that they are no longer represented. We feel that we are being taxed, and our tax money being used without our consent, in ways that are flat out wrong. We hate the pork spending we see every day while our government spends more and more money that they have borrowed, which leads to even more taxes in the future. We once sent a message to the King of England that he couldn’t ignore (after years of ignoring our petitions and pleas). Let’s send a signal to Washington that has its roots in the origin of our country, one that they can’t misunderstand.
Here’s how to do it. Write your Senators and Representatives a letter, with details of where you take issue with their actions. A physical letter, not an email. Then tuck a tea bag into the letter. Send it to the local office, not the DC office. If you send it to DC, they will probably never receive the tea bag due to the postal security around Congress. In the next day or two I’m going to have put together a way for everyone doing it to let me know who they’ve sent tea bags to, and why.
It sounds gimmicky, yes, but it may just be the kind of thing to get someone’s attention.
