Last week i send an email to my Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) urging her to support the "Federal Reserve Transparency Act" (S. 202).

This is what the bitch had to say...


Dear Mr. White:

Thank you for contacting me to express support for legislation to increase transparency at the Federal Reserve. I appreciate hearing from you, and I welcome the opportunity to respond.


I agree that the trillions of dollars deployed by the Federal Reserve to stabilize the economy should be accounted for. On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (P.L. 111-203), which includes requirements for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve's emergency lending activities during the financial crisis. Specifically, this legislation requires that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) publish a full audit of the loans and other assistance provided to financial institutions during the economic crisis. The GAO is also empowered with ongoing audit authority over any future emergency lending activities, but is not authorized to directly review key monetary policies such as the setting of interest rates. I believe this legislation takes appropriate steps to prevent the politicization of monetary policy while still promoting transparency in the use of public funds.


Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced legislation that would require an additional audit of the Federal Reserve. The "Federal Reserve Transparency Act" (S. 202) would remove all existing restrictions on GAO audits, including confidentiality restrictions. I have some concerns that a more expansive audit, including a review of monetary policy, could prevent the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors from making key decisions free of outside political influence. This legislation is currently awaiting a vote in the Senate Banking Committee, of which I am not a member. However, please know that I have made careful note of your support for increased transparency of the Federal Reserve, and I will keep your thoughts in mind should this or other relevant legislation come before me for a vote.


Once again, thank you for writing. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841. Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator


How out of touch with reality can these fuckers be.... Im too hot right now to reply to her. How about some help on my reply from the "Adam VS The Man" army.

-Brady

First of all, you KNOW it wasn't actually her who sent the e-mail.

Secondly, the fact that she has indicated that the Fed is free of political influence is an absolute joke. Which banks were chosen for the bailouts? Who chose them? That should be enough to garner plenty of suspicion about political influence. Additionally, the whole notion that the Fed should even stay independent (or heck, exist) is itself a matter of political opinion, so to deny that the Fed's "independence" is a reflection of the Keynesian paradigm is indicative of 1) her incompetency or 2) a very clumsy statement attempting to dismiss the Fed's influence as political when it clearly is, which again reflects a certain level of incompetency.

Thirdly, you should tell her that as American taxpayers, we have EVERY RIGHT to know how our dollar is being devalued; that Dodd-Frank was only a partial audit, and that 16 trillion dollars should be quite enough to motivate a fuller audit, and to deny this right to the American taxpayers makes her a traitor to her constituents. I would also do some research on her and see where she stands to benefit from fighting the audit and calling her out on it.

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I wrote to my congressmen and women and senators for years, until one day, I got a reply, and matched it up to a buddy of mine who got a letter back from the same people, and it was the EXACT same message. I never wrote to them again.

They probably outsourced those jobs to some kid in India who doesn't even know who the hell you're talking about. "I'm very concer.... conce...... concerned!" NOT!

Yeah I had the same thing occur with Lord Elijah Cummings in Baltimore.. Although my actual district congressman (Roscoe Bartlett) is a grumpy old man but he's actually fairly principled fiscally compared to most on the Hill, albeit an incredibly "social conservative" type.

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No, they are written by high school and college students usually in district offices. There is no shortage of students in this country who want to intern for members of congress and can write cogent letters.

By contrast, letters written to the White House get answered by veterans who have been given a government sinecure.

The one way to tell any personal letter is likely not written by a politician is a signature. If they actually see the letter, they cross out there name and write a personal note.

Once in a great great great great while they will actually bend to the pressure from constituents and the number of letters and calls is one of the key measuring sticks they use to determine when and why. Other than those rare times it and the WH.gov petitions are a complete waste of your mental resources and time.

The glimmering hope of Nullification that so many of us have clung to is going up like the smoke when Cheech cracks the window. Fucked by the math. They have kicked our asses in the Hearts and Mind fight. So really the only kind of contact with a Politician that will get you anything would be the route that leads to a 15 minute bully pulpit in a cell. No thanks.

As for Sen. Fuckstain for even more obvious reasons (no polite way to say this) she can choke on my fat red Native American totem pole.