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Comment by Barry Lee Phillips on August 20, 2011 at 4:17pm

There was one problem.  I never asked him about a proposed rule change by the Department of Labor!

Whichever dolt answered the email decided to send a canned response.  Typical and a total waste of time.

 

Comment by Barry Lee Phillips on August 20, 2011 at 4:14pm

Well, I finally got a reply from Bill Nelson (or one of his minions) via email:

 

Dear Mr. Phillips:

 

     Thank you for contacting me regarding a proposed rule by the Department of Labor that would change the 35-year-old definition of what entities are considered fiduciaries for retirement plans.  

 

     I understand many have expressed concerns about the impact of these regulations; DOL has received hundreds of comments and held two days of public hearings.

 

     On May 31, the Department of Labor announced that it would delay implementation of this rule from July 16, 2011 until January 1, 2012.  I appreciate hearing your views on this issue and will continue to monitor this situation closely.

 

     Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future.

 

                                   Sincerely,

                                   Senator Bill Nelson

 

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 15, 2011 at 6:48am

Theresa, nope, it was never you standing out there alone.  Many of us have been writing and writing and writing some more to Bill Nelson and going to his office.  The girls that work there are nice and as I found out the last time several of us went to his office, his lead lady will be going over to the Brown administration (she really is very nice, but that should give you an idea where Brown may be headed if he is plucking Nelson staff members?).

Comment by Theresa Pletcher on August 14, 2011 at 7:33pm

I'm sad it happened to your Doyle and Patricia but I'm also glad to know that it's not just me.  I was talking to Abby Johnson author or UnPLANNED and now pro life activist.  Abby said as much as they don't want to that they have to tell him what we said...so I don't know if we are being out called or out emailed but he definitely knows whether he acknowledges it or not our opinions.  I sincerely hope and pray that he finally gets defeated in 2012!

Comment by Doyle on August 14, 2011 at 6:51pm

Nelson's response didn't surprise me at all, Patricia. Writing to him is just as useless an exercise as calling his office. Whether calling his local office for the one in DC, the tone of whoever answers is always the same. They're doing you a favor just picking up the danged phone. And if you're calling in opposition to something the great senator is supporting, their boredom increases and they terminate the call as quickly as possible with an irritated, "I'll give your message to the Senator."

Yeah, sure they did.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 14, 2011 at 5:58pm

Don't you just love it Doyle.  Makes you really feel like writing to him again, doesn't it?  I know when I get responses back, that's how I feel.  I also wonder if there is a large vacant space between his ears that is fills will cotton candy or some other totally useless thing since his responses rarely have anything at all to do with what I wrote and asked him to do...............guess he thinks like Obama does and that he is dealing with idiots when in reality.........we are!

 

Comment by Doyle on August 14, 2011 at 3:57pm

Senator Nelson replied to me email (copied below) yesterday. In several hundred words he pounded himself on the back about all the wonderful things he accompanied during the debt negotiations and says he could have gotten much more done if it weren't for the "partisan" obstacles preventing him from doing so.

He loves hearing from concerned citizens, he says, and I should feel free to continue contacting him because my opinion is so important to him.

Translation: cricketes chirping at Nelson's office, as always.

Comment by Barry Lee Phillips on August 14, 2011 at 10:26am

My comments sent to Bill Nelson on his Politico article:

The economy is still in the tank despite attempts by the Obama Administration and some media to paint a rosier picture. Do they think they are fooling anyone?

Closing tax loopholes is part of the problem! The current tax code is archaic and screams for reform. A better solution would be to scrap the current tax code entirely, repeal the 16th Amendment, and replace it with the Fair Tax. All citizens get a monthly prebate on taxes charged for essentials such as food and medicine.

Keeping the current system only invites more abuse and eveyone knows it. You could sign on as a co-sponsor of S. 13 if you are really serious about getting rid of tax loopholes.

Common sense dictates that less spending -- not more by the government is needed in these economic times. The government cannot keep spending money it does not have. THAT is the reason the government credit rating was downgraded.

Both Democrats and Republicans essentially chickened out and decided to kick the can down the road during the latest debt limit debacle. Just more smoke and mirrors and no really serious intent by either side to solve the problem.

We have a crisis of leadership at the national level and I see only a handful of people with the courage to step forward and attempt to provide solutions.

Hopefully, that crisis of leadership will be resolved in upcoming elections, but I remain cynical that it will.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 14, 2011 at 7:03am

Hello Mr. Nelson,
As you asked, I will respond about how I feel about what is going on right now in Washington, about the economy, the downgrade in our credit rating, and what I believe needs to be done to begin to set things right again.

First of all, I think a president that borrows almost 7 trillion dollars in 1 term of 4 years (and this will be about the number when he leaves office) should give everyone, including the democrats, a major case of heart burn. Something is clearly wrong when someone places that sort of burden on the current taxpayers and the next 2 or 3 generations. And, I do not believe raising taxes is the answer. Much of the money spent was not spent on anything that will improve our country's economic condition and all of the programs failed miserably.

I believe the massive spending is the problem. Our federal government has involved itself in so many aspects of people's lives at this point, it is stifling EVERYTHING. Increasing taxes while maintaining an unsustainable level of spending is totally insane, and raising taxes at a time when all of us are budgeting carefully in a VERY poor economy that has stagnated is not only political suicide, it is not a rational response to out of control spending of this president and his administration.

It may be time for all of you to carefully consider just exactly what the function of the federal government is, and hint, it is not to be involved in almost every aspect of our lives including trying to tell people how to raise their children, what everyone should eat, and managing our health care, so you can decide who lives or dies based on your view of what is fair or not fair............and so many other things.

We currently have a president and executive administration who have the least number of people who have ever had a real job in the history of our country. They are clueless about our free market system, dislike our free market system, and have done everything they can to destroy that same system, so they can replace it with something they think is better, and all of this is being done without the consent of the majority of the American people. It needs to stop, and if it does, then perhaps our economy will begin to recover, but you and your colleagues are stuck on tax increases, and a continuation of the same failed policies and spending. Right now, tax increases would be the worst thing you could do.

Sooner or later, Mr. Obama is going to have to face the FACT, the government does not create jobs and never has, and all the pretty speeches in the world are not going to change that. The private sector and primarily the small business owners in this country create jobs, and if you believe raising their taxes right now is a good idea, then you need to find another line of work, and we need to replace you with someone who understands how the free market system works. It is a travesty that you and your fellow democratic colleagues, to include the president, have made such poor decisions for the last almost 5 years in relation to spending and pretty much across the board that you are keeping the economy in a holding pattern due to the uncertainly and the constant upheaval related to the interference you and your colleagues seem to favor over stability and a non intrusive policies.

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak about this. I know what I have to say, won't be what you want to hear, so I don't expect that you will pay any attention to my opinion, but I am saying it anyway.

Kind Regards,

Comment by sally higgins on August 13, 2011 at 10:11am

Senator Nelson,

I gave you my comments last week.  It's time for honesty in government. Pres. Obama should be impeached or resign. He has shown no signs of leadership during the debt crisis. He spends money like a wild man, which turns out to be a waste of taxpayer's money. His plans seem like pipe dreams to me

sally higgins

jacksonville, fl

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