letter to Sen. Bill Nelson

Sen. Bill Nelson

United States Senate
716 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510



June 15, 2011

Sen. Nelson:

I have decided to give up a cup of coffee per week or a trip to McDonalds or an extra beer at the World of Beer in Orlando and each week send a check for $5.00 to pay down the principal of the National Debt. When my taxes are complete for 2011, I will bring my donation to 1% of my income. Please send this check to the US Treasury to apply to the principal of the debt. By the way, I have included you in several e-mails regarding this.

I am going to send you ( and Sen. Rubio) checks made out to the US Treasury each week until my elected officials decide to grow up and act like adults to fix our problems.

Just to let you know, Rep Webster has accepted my challenge and has compelled his staff to do the same. I further challenge you and Sen. Rubio to do the same.

I am going to begin to encourage others to send checks to their Senators and Congressmen demanding action on our most pressing and important issue

For example, 432 congressmen make the same, $174,000, the Speaker $223.500 and the majority and minority leaders $193,400. This would come to a total of $757,783.

In the Senate, assuming similar income would come to $119,981. The President, $400,000 for $4,000.

This would be a total applied to the principal debt of $872,764.

A drop in the bucket, maybe, but how many other Americans would be willing to do this. I guess we’ll never know unless Congress takes the lead. How bout the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, Congressional staffers, State leaders……

Again, please expect this every other week and be kind enough to forward it to the appropriate location.

Hastings Henderson