An Open Letter Activity.

An open letter to President Obama;


President Obama - President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington DC, 20500

Dear President Obama:


I want to help clean up the oil spill. I had some ideas on how to help, and
stimulate the economy. This oil spill will require a massive effort to clean up.
I think a WPA style effort could be useful. BP has promised financial
responsibility for cleanup of the spill. If many of the unemployed people could
be hired by BP to clean the beaches and the water, carry waste, and other
services; there could be hope for the Gulf as well as the economy.
BP pays for the people to be housed. Americans donate tents, towels, everything that is needed. BP pays the empty hotels, campgrounds, host houses, all lodging for the workers. The government gives students a grant for hours served. All organizations and households could receive a tax credit for sending goods and services. This would help everyone. The people who need employment, the wildlife in the Gulf, BP's financial obligation being used where it is needed most.

All the Gulf and affected areas could be helped environmentally as well as
financially. This is an enormous undertaking that requires the country to pull
together in a concerted effort. This is the largest environmental disaster
America has ever had, preceded by the worst recession we have witnessed since the 30's.

This is the time to use our strength as a whole to get this job done. It will
require hands-on participation. We can use the technologies that we have come to rely on to make this happen; to get the word out. Americans need Jobs. BP has promised financial obligation . Our Government has the opportunity to be the designer of this symbiotic relationship.


Sincerely,

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• emu
• oil
• spill
• cleanup
• birds
• conditioner
• open
• letter
• BP
• WPA

[pennilesscripple]

i watched this video and read the interesting exchange b/t mr. forehead and lapis. i have nothing else to say. this whole thing makes me despair. i wish they would at the very least use emu oil (makes sense) to clean feathers. but no, of course not, that would be too sane....

[BobForehead]

@pennilesscripple despair not, penni'. you haven't driven for a while, ya? until we're screwed enough so that there's no choice but to murder/suicide, all we can do is avoid adding to the damage ourselves. makes me feel better to harass everyone i come into contact with free-floating anti-humanism, but in reality i'm either preaching to a powerless choir or screaming at a windmill. Make a vid! yours are always intelligent positives to add to the gestalt; mebe feel better... oi! happy summer!!!

[pennilesscripple]

i made a video about this topic years ago. i would post it as a response if i could figure out where youtube hid the 'post a video response' widget.

(remember the good ol' days when youtube actually worked, sorta?)

anyway it is called 'altar' and it is posted on my home page

and i will make some more videos--am sucked into other battles at the mo

nice to seeya, bf

[BobForehead]

@pennilesscripple vid reponce thingy should show to thur right of a comment entry box when you click to comment.... Al10' had trouble too, maybe it's a browser thing... w/e. it worked once...we'll always have Paris, Penni'.

Nice to see you too! (did you just call me "boyfriend" in kidiot shorthand?)

[pennilesscripple]

bf =bob forehead

but as they used to say in third grade, well, he's a boy and he's my friend, so....

[BobForehead]

@pennilesscripple "Is dat yo boyfre'n'? Is DAT yo boyfre'n'?!? If that's yo boyfre'n' well he wasn't last night..." BTW; thanks for the response; dat's one of my faves/BFF vids of yours. er, "yo's". as they say. so to speak. type.

[BobForehead]

@lapispinoza only the loonies are thick enough to confuse oil for anchovies. the rest are total health nuts.

[BobForehead]

@lapispinoza not so bad, it comes with shaved Ginger.

[BobForehead]

@lapispinoza looks like Japan will take all this year anyway, guess they just crush-mopped up Cam'roon with a humiliating 1-0 win and are now restructuring the entire African League with a more efficient distribution and production scheme. it'll be sticky rice and fish sticks round the Johanessburg pubs tonight

[BobForehead]

@lapispinoza you try that ploy every year, lapis'... by the time England gets clouted you'll be foaming in yer lager like a regular Joe Hooligan, with your soccer scarf all in a bunch and such, goin' off at the slightest provocation about "bastards on the dole" and "Wherof England? Wither Empire?!?" in ways most amusing to us colonials