My Letter to Senator Richard Shelby (R - Alabama)

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Dear Senator Richard Shelby,

Given your stance on the U.S. Auto Industry loans, my family and I have chosen to boycott your state.

In fact, I am urging everyone I know, both friends and business associates, to boycott Alabama.

With the fact that Alabama receives 1.63 tax dollars for every 1 tax dollar paid to the Federal government, or $9,265 per capita, I find it appalling that you have chosen to stand against honest, hard working, American taxpayers.
(See http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm)

You were recently quoted as stating that "The GM, Ford and Chrysler business model won’t work, it never worked".

While perhaps this is a paraphrase, I think it is more than a fair representation of the dis-information you are spreading at the expense of middle class American families.

Specifically, if what you say is true, then General Motors and Ford would not have been in business for over 100 years and Chrysler would not have been in business for over 83 years. The model has made them billions of dollars over many of those years. The model has worked and is working. The economy and the government are the problem - not the American people.

But, unbelievably, you have chosen to put an additional 2 to 3 million U.S. jobs at risk per auto maker - even as we, the U.S. taxpayer, rescue Wall Street without any recourse in getting those tax dollars back since that wasn't a loan, but rather a true bail out.

In the future, I hope our government has the spine to address this dire and urgent situation and chooses not to kick the can down the road as you have chosen. We need someone to stand tall for hard working Americans and you have failed, sir.

Until then, I am letting everyone know: Boycott Alabama!





See also: http://www.boycottalabamanow.com/