The Expansionist

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Stop Bankruptcy "Reform" (The Debt Slavery Act of 2005)! I have used the term "debt slavery", along with "wage slavery", to describe what the rich are trying to reduce everyone else to, in this country and around the world. So I was pleased to find a website of that name, www.debtslavery.org, devoted to defeating the federal bankruptcy "reform" bill the Republicans are trying to ram thru to make it almost impossible for ordinary people to escape oppressive debt and usury by declaring bankruptcy. I thought the bill had already passed both houses, but am advised that it has not yet passed the House of Representatives. There's still time to agitate for its defeat, and the debt-slavery website affords one quick and easy way to do so.
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To the left at the home page of the www.debtslavery.org website appears a "Write Your Rep" link. If you click on it, you will be taken to an electronic petition/email form by which any American can electronically send a message to his or her own Member of Congress. There is a one-sentence standard petition text and a place for personalized comments (the site recommends personalizing your message to get more attention from your Congressman). This is what I added for the attention of my Congressman, Donald Payne of Newark. He's a Democrat, and so is probably already opposed to this outrageous bill, but I want him to do more than register his one vote against it:

It is urgent that you not only vote against this Debt-Slavery Act but also do everything in your power to influence other people to defeat it. You must also address the underlying problem of usury in this country, by passing a federal usury law that would control all national banks plus credit-card companies doing business across state lines. Thank you for whatever you can do.

There is a place on the form to list email addresses of friends who might like to know of that petition. If you don't want to risk violating their privacy, please send the www.debtslavery.org URL to friends on your own. This is extremely urgent, so please act today.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 1,548.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 11:23 PM

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