Roomin' House Blues

I'm a great believer in Democracy in action.  Even though I disagreed with much of  what Tea Party activists said  at town hall meetings and the cranky way it was said, I liked that they came to the public forum.  Yesterday , National People's Action demonstrators in Washington were chanting "What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like." Again, another public forum.   This morning I got email from Rep. Jaime Pederson saying that he will be having a town hall meeting here in Seattle at: 43 rd  Legislative District Town Hall Saturday, March 12, 2-3:30 p.m. Seattle First Baptist Church 1111 Harvard Avenue Seattle, WA 98122 Speaking of foreclosures Pederson claims as one of his legislative accompolishments doing something about it. He says, "During the past two years, more than 77,000 families have lost their homes to foreclosure in Washington.  Another 40,000 are seriously delinquent and at risk. We also know t...

This morning while watching C-Span I heard Congressman Jessie Jackson Jr make an announcement in the House of his desire for the unemployed and the "99er's" to send there resume and story as a cover to Congress. This apparently is not his first request, and I found a story at Huffington Post on this:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-thornton/rep-jesse-jackson-jr-rece_b_809589.html  . Jessie has gotten over 15,000 resumes already.  For those of you who want to send congress the story of your job search and your resume the address is  resumesforamerica@mail.house.gov I'm not going to post my resume here, but here is the letter: Dear Congress, I am 60 years old, too young to be retired, too old to be unemployed. In the current economy and at my age and health my chances of re-employment diminish.  I wasn't planning to retire early, but rather late, because of my small amount of savings.  Now, when I do get a job again, I will h...