Dear State Legislature, Please Hold Congress Accountable

By: Uma Richie (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 11:20 AM  | 

Dear Representative, Like many Pennsylvanians, ten days ago I became aware that a crisis in the United States financial system threatened to send our country into a full scale depression unless a $700 billion bailout bill was enacted quickly. Subsequent news revealed that certain Members of Congress had been warned of the impending disaster years earlier, but either denied the existence of a problem or | Read More »

Economics 101

By: Uma Richie (Diary)  |  September 19th at 07:54 AM  | 

Demagogic cries such as, “The rich should pay more taxes,” and “The oil companies are greedy,” are difficult to counter because they are short, simple and easy to believe. At four minutes, this video is longer than the average attention span, but the straightforward explanation and visual effects can help clarify how higher taxes and more government are bad things. I recommend this video for | Read More »

Phone Banking Pennsylvania: It’s Still the Economy

By: Uma Richie (Diary)  |  September 16th at 08:16 AM  | 

It’s not scientific and the sample size is small, but here is some raw data from my phone banking efforts on 9/8 and 9/15: 64 phone calls (32 each week) to likely voters, not all were Republicans. 9 McCain supporters (3 last week/6 yesterday) 8 Undecided (5 last week/3 yesterday) 1 Obama supporter (last week) 2 refused to respond 44 answering machines, messages, wrong numbers, | Read More »