Letter To President Obama

Letter

President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

I would like to thank you again for taking the time to travel to Fort Myers yesterday to talk with the people. I know that our entire community truly appreciates your visit.

Everyone respects both your determination to help those in need and your heartfelt desire to invigorate our economy.

We all want to solve the challenges facing our country as quickly and painlessly as possible. We want to see people go back to work. We want them to be able to afford their homes. And we want to create an environment that enables the private sector to create real jobs at good wages.

While the people understand what is in your heart, they still believe the economic "stimulus" package is the wrong way to achieve these shared goals. In fact, my office has received over 2,000 phone calls, emails and letters about this plan, and more than 90 percent of those are opposed to it.

To them, and to me, this plan is a massive spending plan. We recognize that only a limited percentage of this spending will create fewer jobs over the next year as compared to other options. We believe that tax cuts coupled with true pro-growth policies are more likely to succeed and more likely to spark economic growth.

We also understand that, while we need to reign in the size, scope and cost of Washington, there may be an appropriate place, in conjunction with more expansive pro-growth policies, for some "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects to help create the environment that will jump-start the private sector.

Unfortunately, the "stimulus" plan that is now before Congress is the wrong direction for our nation. As I said earlier this week, it uses far too much money to fund earmarks, pork-driven projects and liberal social planning programs. It won't provide the catalyst the people, and our economy, need.

Mr. President, now that you have been to Southwest Florida, I hope you will truly consider the concerns of the people, including the many thousands that you did not have the opportunity to meet. Let us not shackle future generations with the burdens of more government, more spending and more debt. Let us instead go down the road to economic prosperity through common-sense solutions that will create more freedom and more opportunity for all.

Very respectfully,

CONNIE MACK
Member of Congress

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