I Love Email!

Really, I do. It provides some key information, and plenty of cannon-fodder from people I do and do not know. This one I’m about to copy off for you is from quite possibly the most well-known political figure in history:

Brandon –

When you and I set out on this journey three years ago, we knew that ours would be a lengthy struggle to build a new foundation for this country — one that would require squaring off against the special interests who had spent decades stacking the deck in their favor.

Today, it is clear that you have shifted the odds.

This morning, I signed into law a bill that represents the most sweeping reforms of Wall Street since the Great Depression, and the toughest consumer financial protections this nation has ever seen. I know that I am able to do so only because the tens of thousands of volunteers who make up the backbone of this movement overcame the most potent attack ads and the most powerful lobbying the special interests could put forward.

Our special-interest opponents and their Republican allies have now set their sights on the elections in November as their best chance to overturn the historic progress we’ve made together.

We count entirely on supporters like you to fight back — no special interests, no corporate PACs. To keep making change and to defend the change we have already won, we need you to contribute so we have the resources necessary going into the election.

Can you donate $5 today to help lay the groundwork for the fights ahead?

Because of Wall Street reform, we will ensure that Americans applying for a credit card, a mortgage, or a student loan will never again be asked to sign their name under pages of confusing fine print. We will crack down on abusive lending practices and make sure that lenders don’t cheat the system — and create a new watchdog to enforce these consumer protections.

And we will put an end to taxpayer-funded bailouts, giving us the ability to wind down any large financial institution if it should ever fail.

The passage of Wall Street reform is at the forefront of the change we seek, and it will provide a foundation for a stronger and safer economy.

It is a foundation built upon the progress of the Recovery Act, which has turned 22 months of job losses into six consecutive months of private-sector job growth. And it is a foundation reinforced by the historic health reform we passed this spring, which is already giving new benefits to more than 100 million Americans, ushering another 1 million Americans into coverage by next year.

But today’s victory is not where our fight ends.

Together, we will move forward in the months ahead on the tough fights we have yet to finish — even if cynics say we should wait until after the fall elections. This movement has never catered to the conventional wisdom of Washington. And we have fought to ensure that our progress is never held hostage by our politics.

You and I did not build this movement to win one election. We did not come together to pass one single piece of legislation. We are fighting for nothing less than a new foundation for our country — and that work is not complete. As we face the challenges ahead, I am relying on you to stand with me.

Please donate $5 or more today:

Thank you for helping us get here,

President Barack Obama

First of all, I didn’t give a rat’s behind about politics 3 years ago. It’s that simple. I was more concerned with technology and beginning my college career.

One of the first main points I wanted to get to in this rebuttal though is the foundation diatribe he goes into in the second paragraph. This country was built on the best foundation there ever could be; a government governed by negative rights, and commerce to be practiced in a capitalistic nature. I do believe capitalism to be the most fair form of economy because it suits the varying population; and is a system that usually rewards people justly for the amount of work they put into the economy. But, just like communism, capitalism has not been practiced very “fairly”, or justly I guess you can call it. Some “rulers” of capitalism screw it up just like the rulers of communism. Large governments want to get involved in all trades and regulate all aspects of them, large corporations often want to monopolize markets and put in lobbyists to have governments and regulatory bodies do their bidding, and governments and corporations both see people as a commodity, not human beings. Sounds pretty parallel to communism, doesn’t it? It’s not the process of the economical setup, it is the people that get put in charge. Also bear in mind that capitalism is another form of wealth redistribution; it’s just a more fair form, in this reporter’s eye.

Having the most sweeping change in Wall Street behavior since the Great Depression is nothing to brag about, Barack. For one; it doesn’t make a difference. Wall Street is so different from Main Street that it is almost disenfranchised from Main Street. Wall Street does not represent the American economy anymore. Two, even if the changes are so sweeping, that doesn’t mean they’re good. It wasn’t sweeping changes that brought us out of the Great Depression; it was demand for products. In the case of the Great Depression; there was a greater demand for weaponry and military vehicles (and the materials they were made out of) because we were backing our allies and ready to go into the war ourselves. We need to get back into creating products that people have an insatiable demand for, and creating those products with longevity and quality in mind.

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