Eric Cantor gives us an update:
Two weeks ago, the House Republican Economic Recovery Working Group launched YouCut, an initiative that allows people to get involved in their government like never before.
Before we launched the project, I knew that the American people were fed up with the size of government and the culture of spending that has become the norm in Washington. What I didn’t fully anticipate, however, was the level of grassroots intensity that YouCut elicited. During the first week of the project, our website averaged more than 3,000 votes cast an hour and a total of 281,000 votes cast. Since that time, the intensity surrounding the project has not dissipated.
Currently, more than 500,000 votes have been cast and 30,000 people have emailed spending reduction ideas of their own…
Have you participated? If not, go here.
The fact of the matter is that while Cantor and many other Republicans do get it and understand what is happening among the people, there are still a lot of Republicans who don’t. We are looking forward to a good year for our side – but we need to make sure that the people going to DC know we’re watching and we’re insisting upon genuine reforms.
People power is the only way to thwart the vested interests (some of them allegedly Republican) who see government as a means of personal enrichment. If we want a government we can rely on and an economy built for the middle class and the working poor, then it will take intense action on our part to get it. Don’t let up for a minute, or these people will forget why we sent them there.
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