The Tipping Point

What's YOUR tipping point? What will it take to get YOU to phone YOUR GOP representatives in Congress and tell them "Enough is enough"? Perhaps it was the loss of Panda Cam. Perhaps your tipping point was hearing that little preschoolers couldn't go to their Head Start classes? Perhaps it was none of these. Perhaps you've been "really busy" and didn't have time to type out an e-mail. Perhaps you don't care.

Today, you should care. Today is the day that YOU call YOUR representative, and tell them to END the Shutdown. Why? Because you're going to look at the faces of the soldiers below--soldiers who just died in Afghanistan, defending your sorry ass. They are Jennifer Moreno, Jeremiah Collins, Patrick Hawkins, and one who has yet to be identified, but who DOES have people back here in the United States.

These 5 died for you and for me, but because of the government shutdown, their families cannot be paid their Death Benefit. This Death Benefit allows families to fly to Dover Air Force Base to claim the bodies, it allows families to properly bury these young people who gave their lives for US, it gives them money to fly family members to gather together to grieve the loss of these people who died unselfishly for you and for me. It gives them money at a time when they most need it--mourning the lives taken too soon in the defense of our country.

Our country. Yours and mine. Make that call. You no longer have an excuse. Our country has now sunk to the lowest of lows, and it's time for US to speak.

I'll make it easy: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Do it.