My Letter to My Congressman

Dear Representative Berman,

I understand that it must be a lonely time in Congress for you, Mr. Berman. Having to dutifully vote against all the wacky destructive Republican bills and not being able to get very many progressive Democratic bills to the floor for a vote. But please -- we need a jobs bill! People need to get back to work. There must be something that can be done to put people back to work, whether it's a New Deal type WPA or some kind of tax subsidies that would ease unemployment in our part of California.

I'm a screenwriter by trade, and I realize that on the Federal level bringing up a movie-friendly bill would have as much of a chance as trying to legalize heroin. But the more people work, the more money is in their pockets, and the more people will go see movies -- and more importantly, it will greatly increase Obama's chance for re-election. If the President or the Democratic congress do not get a solid jobs bill going, we could wind up with some nutcase like Rick Perry or Michelle Bachman running the country -- and hell, in that case, I'd rather live in Greece.

I urge you to act with great urgency and timeliness. You know how much is at stake. I don't want to live in a country with no public education, huge tax breaks for billionaires, and the right to unionize stripped from us completely. If something big doesn't happen soon, we will live in a country where gays can't marry or serve in the military, women aren't free to choose their reproductive rights, and nobody has a job. Sound fun? I think not.

Yours truly,

Adam Gierasch