Why Lobby?
Last page update: September 22, 2007
A QUOTE TO
THINK ABOUT:
“Too
many people think of government
as an entity that is out there and
does things to or for us.
Government ought to be of us,
a tool that the people use to do collectively what they cannot do
alone.”—Lobbying
Even
more than for most folks —
POLITICS
·
POLITICIANS
control the laws that penalize your Social
Security if you
are or were a teacher, a firefighter, a police officer or other state
or local
employee.
·
POLITICIANS
shaped the laws that cut your
Healthcare Insurance
rebate recently.
·
POLITICIANS
responded when you demanded that
they restore
that rebate.
·
POLITICIANS
introduced bills in Congress to REPEAL THE PENALTIES on your
Social Security.
·
POLITICIANS
signed onto those bills as
co-sponsors, and then KEPT THE BILLS
LOCKED UP
IN COMMITTEE for a year.
·
POLITICIANS,
including many of the
co-sponsors, refused to vote the bills out of committee.
POLITICIANS determine your life!
Don’t trust
your life to take care of itself!
Join RTAC’s
Letter-A-Month Club,
a group
of people dedicated to the vital task of letting legislators know that:
Retired Chicago public employees
still exist and
function; and
Our needs must not be ignored
just
because our public service has ended!
Join RTAC’s Letter a Month Club
and let
your wishes be known!
YOU DO NOT
HAVE TO BE AN RTAC MEMBER
to join!!
1.
Just
click on Editor;
2.
Write
“Letter a Month Club” in the “Subject” line; and
3.
Give
your name, address and telephone number (this
step is desired, but is OPTIONAL).
Only
about one retired
Chicago Public School teacher in 35
cares enough to promise to ask legislators to support our needs
UP TO ONCE A MONTH. Are we really asking
too much??
(What
would you think of a class where only one kid in the whole class
even PROMISED to turn in one essay a month??)
If you have a friend
who has no computer, ask him or her to join
the Computer-Free section of the Letter
a Month Club by sending his or
her name, address
and telephone number to Letter-A-Month Club, 4800 S Chicago Beach,
Suite 2516N,
Chicago, IL, 60615-2170. These people
will be contacted by First Class US Mail in times of emergency.