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Well, gosh, let's see - I think a few of our illustrious Senators could afford to kick in a little in the way of donations, share a little of the burden of regular Joe Donator who gets hit up every ten seconds through both his taxes and voluntary donations to keep PBS and NPR going.
Senator John Kerry D-Massachusetts, net worth -
165.4 miliion himself, 626.3 million and up inclusive of his wife's money
Senator Ted Kennedy D-Massachusetts, silver spoon baby, net worth 44 million on paper in the U.S., unknown assets and monies stashed elsewhere in countries which are tax havens
Senator Jay Rockefeller D-W. Virginia net worth estimated 82 million
Senator Herb Kohl D-Wisconsin net worth 111 million
And so on. And on. Numbers are on the low estimate side based on financial disclosures and do not include: their annual Federal salaries, pensions, nor primary residences. Surely a donation from any of these well-heeled people would take no skin from their noses, all things considered.
Both NPR and PBS staff are quite well-paid with your tax dollars, no one is on the soup line, though they'd like to have you think so. Also, they are both tax-exempt entities -
http://www.mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2004_11_14_mpetrelis_archive.html
At any rate. All hypocrisies aside - go to senate.gov and house.gov. Locate your own Senators and Congresspeople. There will be contact information there for fax, phone and e-mail. There will be guides to current bills up for consideration and daily roll calls and votes on the floor. Contact your reps and politely express your views. This is a participatory nation, so, participate. You can also contact any representative from any other state or district at any time, you do not have to limit contact to just your own reps.
When contacting politicians it's helpful to have the Bill # at hand and the Bill # should always be mentioned. When they hear from enough people, and usually enough people means only a thousand or so, they will listen. When there's something you feel strongly enough about, you can rally five or ten or fifteen friends to do the same, and have them rally their five or ten or fifteen friends to contact their rep, and so it grows. It is a fallacy, a myth, that all we can do is sit around and wring our hands over things.
Senator John Kerry D-Massachusetts, net worth -
165.4 miliion himself, 626.3 million and up inclusive of his wife's money
Senator Ted Kennedy D-Massachusetts, silver spoon baby, net worth 44 million on paper in the U.S., unknown assets and monies stashed elsewhere in countries which are tax havens
Senator Jay Rockefeller D-W. Virginia net worth estimated 82 million
Senator Herb Kohl D-Wisconsin net worth 111 million
And so on. And on. Numbers are on the low estimate side based on financial disclosures and do not include: their annual Federal salaries, pensions, nor primary residences. Surely a donation from any of these well-heeled people would take no skin from their noses, all things considered.
Both NPR and PBS staff are quite well-paid with your tax dollars, no one is on the soup line, though they'd like to have you think so. Also, they are both tax-exempt entities -
http://www.mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2004_11_14_mpetrelis_archive.html
At any rate. All hypocrisies aside - go to senate.gov and house.gov. Locate your own Senators and Congresspeople. There will be contact information there for fax, phone and e-mail. There will be guides to current bills up for consideration and daily roll calls and votes on the floor. Contact your reps and politely express your views. This is a participatory nation, so, participate. You can also contact any representative from any other state or district at any time, you do not have to limit contact to just your own reps.
When contacting politicians it's helpful to have the Bill # at hand and the Bill # should always be mentioned. When they hear from enough people, and usually enough people means only a thousand or so, they will listen. When there's something you feel strongly enough about, you can rally five or ten or fifteen friends to do the same, and have them rally their five or ten or fifteen friends to contact their rep, and so it grows. It is a fallacy, a myth, that all we can do is sit around and wring our hands over things.
