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I call on you to resist the pressure from the Bush administration to deliver them a $700 billion blank check to address the current economic crisis. We need to address this crisis, but giving $700 billion to the Treasury Secretary to spend as he wishes is over the top.

I urge you to pass legislation with sensible checks and balances that protect the public as hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars are used to address the crisis:

1. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. If our tax dollars are going to buy bad assets from irresponsible bankers, the American people must get something for it. Equity in bailed out firms. Strong regulation so this doesn't happen again.  Stern public oversight.  And, no golden parachutes for CEOs with our money.

2. NO HELP FOR WALL STREET WITHOUT HELP FOR MAIN STREET. To truly get our economy back on track, we must aid the victims, not just the predators. Freeze foreclosures. Renegotiate bad mortgages. Create jobs generating clean energy and modernizing infrastructure. Prevent cuts in local police, health, road and school budgets. Extend unemployment insurance and food stamps.

3. NO INSIDER DEALING. Wall Street can no longer be allowed to write their own laws. Legislators should refuse campaign money from Wall Street PACs or executives. We need a "time out" on contact between paid Wall Street lobbyists and elected officials while the crisis is addressed. Any congressional meetings with Wall Street officials must be immediately posted on a single website for complete transparency.

Thank you in advance for taking a stand for common sense.

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Why don't you do the same?  This is a ridiculous position they have put the Taxpayer in (notice how the use of that word seems to denote 'other people' when spewed from the mouth of the politicians?).  Why not give every taxpayer 1 million dollars?  This would definitely boost the economy, allow all taxpaying citizens to pay off their bills, and even buy the house that have been built or foreclosed upon?  That would theoretically only run in the 200Billion dollar range.  That to me would make more sense than passing dollars onto the Financial Institutions that caused this whole mess.  Then we could work to reform the system, as everyone would have a 'clean slate' and NO INTEREST.  Of course, that's why this will never happen.  The interest payments are what keep the sharks moving, in an economy run by and for banking and lending institutions that make their money from charging YOU interest.

Scary, huh?