I have tried several times over the years, expecting nothing, to contact my local congressman or representitive in my area. I never once actualy got to talk to the (elected official) but got plenty of double talk from underlings and other assorted boot lickers. I was asking for a simple method of contact for grants at any level, state or federal. Some simply said they did not have that information. others paid lip service with false sympathies. The truth is, i am basicaly a non entity of no importance to them. I am not even a (useful idiot) their own term for the general voting public. The grants seem to be geared for those skilled in legal double talk and those with certain kinds of sponsors that i am sure makes the process go smothly. there is nothing for the common poor that want to work or improve or prosper. Now these political villians, thieer main job is supposed to be managing our prosperity not on a personal level but by making opportunities known and helping you to get there. Instead you get nothing but a slow eroding year by year of the fools you have voted into office. The opportunities are not for the privalged few, they are suppose to be for those in need of aid, not those that are already bloated with plunder taken from the public. So, stop voting these monsters in year by year. Stop thinking you have the lesser of two evils as a choice, that is no choice at all! Object by not voting them into office! The choices are not acceptable! How much more of the same thing do you want? Do not give them the power to take your prosperity any longer. If everyone checked the box...none of the above then all those candidates should be banned from any public elected office permanently! The majority have said they are not wanted to manage this country. Get accountability, have strict punishments for any skullduggery. Tear down the corporate felons and millitary industrial complex. Stop letting corporate America plunder your castle. None of this is likely to happen, they have dumbed down the public so much that many think their actions are good, they convince you of it if it takes them thirty years to do so. At one time it was shamful to be in debt, as soon as they had most thinking that if you didnt have debt you needed financial punishment, then they gave people houses with no money down, taught that the more debt the more things you could have. then they yanked the carpet out from under many. Only those that never beleived in debt didnt loose everything. Look what they did when katrina struck even those with a 1 credit they froze their credit cards so no one could get plane tickets. They did this because they knew that many would not be able to pay their cards off. So bury your moeny do not trust banks, hide your gold. Now I will be labeled a kook, but that is what most did all the way up to the early sixties. Banks have a bad track record of screwing you, but people just continue to do the same thing. Who got bailed out? the corporate criminals themselfes..Who recieved no help? why, the fleeced public of course