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On Monday, The National Bureau of Economic Research made a SHOCKING announcement—America has been in a recession since December 2007. Well, duh! What made them realize this? Did the banking crisis finally make them admit it? It wasn’t enough, apparently, when the bottom fell out of the housing market. Nor did it rattle them when gasoline prices went “sky high” for awhile. But how about the huge jobless rate of Amercans? Naw. That didn’t do it either.

Nor did it phase President Bush who, for the longest time, refused to admit that America was in deep doo doo. Nor did it phase Senator John McCain who, during his Presidential campaign, thought that “the fundamentals of our economy were strong.” Nor did it, apparently, overly phase either the Democrats or the Republicans in Congress, who did not seem to wake up until the banks started to fold.

But it DID phase us, the normal people of America. We knew we were in a recession when we had trouble finding jobs. We knew we were in a recession when we had to conserve gasoline. We knew we were in a recession when our paychecks suddenly did not buy as much as they once did.

If there is one lesson from this economic crisis, it is this—people in Congress lead charmed, isolated lives, no matter how often they may travel among the people. They can’t really know what it is like to be hounded by bill collectors, or to receive paychecks that don’t meet their needs, or to face the threat of job layoffs.

They CAN’T know. Therefore, it is up to us, “We the PEOPLE” of the United States of America, to make sure that our representatives in Congress DO know about our “average” lives. How? By WRITING to them regularly. Let them know how your life is going. Tell them of your problems, your concerns. Starting with the Obama administration, let’s help ring in a new era of a CARING, responsible government, by being an attentive, responsible electorate. It’s the American way.

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