Stopthehousingbailout.com and You

Angry Citizens Are Speaking Out

Although a $700 billion housing bailout has been in the works, things quickly came to a head yesterday. Even before that, angry voices could be heard from average citizens who were upset about the housing bailout. They may well be the citizens that are looking for sites like Stop The Housing Bailout (www.stopthehousingbailout.com) a website that offers citizens a chance to let their feelings, their voices, be heard.

Stopthehousingbailout.com reflects feelings and anger heard in Indiana

Recently, my husband and I were asked to encourage people to register and to vote in Indiana. My husband walked door to door as a volunteer in an effort to register more voters and to answer questions from those who might be confused about whether they met voter registration requirements or not. Plenty of people were angry about the housing bailout. Plenty didn't like the idea. They may be the very people that Stop the Housing Bailout is trying to reach. For the record, he was in a primarily Democratic area but we have heard - and read - plenty from concerned citizens on all sides of the political spectrum.

What we heard echoes information found not only at the Stop the Housing Bailout website but in articles about bailout rage, including one from Business Week that reveals that many people across the country (not just in our local area) are posting on blogs, emailing friends and debating the bailout.

What resources can Stop the Housing Bailout provide for you?

Even if you have no interest in stopping a housing bailout, you might want to drop by the site and check it out. As a homeowner and citizen, I've tried to keep up with the housing crisis and the proposed bailout. So I definitely wanted to know how and why people might want to protest about the housing bailout. The site has a number of resources and links for anyone who wants to halt the planned bailout. Links at Stop the Housing Bailout include phone numbers for the Senate switchboard and House switchboard as well as Senate and House phone lists. If people want to organize protests or sign petitions, they will find links for that at the site's main page.