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Absolute
Lokahi
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 Posted - 09/15/2007 : 10:39:11 AM
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An open letter to your Congress person on an issue of great importance to us all:
Dear Sir or Madame:
The United States current fiscal policy has recently affected me in a very personal manner. You see, I play the ukulele, and my strings had gone flat. I needed a new set.
There was a time when ukulele strings did not require a line item in my budget, but with the present economic situation in the United States made worse by the rash of mortgage defaults, the value of the United States' dollar, roughly at parity with the Euro when the Euro was first introduced, has now dropped to a mere seventy percent of the value of the Euro. You have transformed the United States, in international money market terms, into a country with a currency that has the same relationship with the Euro that Canada's dollar once did with that of the United States.
As a result, I am forced to resort to fishing line instead of synthetic gut, because synthetic gut is a European product. Please, music education in the United States has suffered enough insults, without forcing thousands of ukulele students everywhere to use cheap strings because a quality product made in Europe is no longer within our reach due to the disparity in the two currencies. Please, please, do something about the federal government's irresponsible spending. I don't want to live in a country that bases its economic growth on third world economic policies predicated upon a severely devalued currency, or one with an economy that can only be awakened by financing long term military aggression.
If this country should soon find itself in a recession (or worse), you'll know me. I'll be the one on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue with my hat out playing the ukulele with the flat tone.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
A Devoted Fan of the Ukulele
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Thank you. |
Edited by - Absolute on 09/15/2007 10:45:25 AM |
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