A long overdue assessment and critique of TRIM (Tax Reform Immediately) is now in order.
After three decades and millions of bulletins distributed not one major victory can be attributed to the little four-page jewels. Surely we’ve rattled a lot of cages and raised the adrenaline levels and blood pressure in friend and foe alike and as far as a platform for talking points we would be hard pressed to find a better medium. But now, upon looking back critically (seems almost like treason) we have to take into account the record and the premise. Unbeknown to us at the time was an assumption that Congressmen personally read and acted positively on our requests whether by letter, petitions, e-mail or TRIM. WRONG, DEAD WRONG!
And their blue ink signatures are all made by a machine, on compositions prepared by a bunch of arrogant, wet behind the ears nincompoops. So much for personal representation. ALL TRIM bulletins are history when they are released. They are “Report Cards” on legislation that has already taken place. They show how a Congressman did in the last round of Fascist Fed/Gov. TRIM Bulletins are about history and that’s that! Sitting Congressmen (with maybe one or two exceptions) don’t really give a tinker’s damn one way or another what people know about their voting records… they’ll lie their way out by the next election anyway. This is the reason that we need to get our candidates elected in whom we have every confidence that they will vote RIGHT-UP Front.
(Part 11)
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