Financial Reform: Faces of the Affected

The Wall Street Journal ran a story that nearly had me in tears. It charted the wide implications of the financial reform legislation currently pending in Washington, including pictures of the sad lot shown below. They come from all walks of life: derivatives trader, auto dealer, attorney general, retailer. What they share is a deep foreboding of dislocation should the current legislation pass. It will rip through their lives like Katrina and Rita, or Thelma and Louise.

I'm sure that, gazing on their anxious countenances, you are seized with empathy and compassion and you think, how can I help? What can I do to make their lives a little easier, to protect them from the impending storm? What you can do is take up a quill pen, like the ones our Founding Fathers used when moved by the spirit of sweet little baby Jesus, and write to your congressman or senator. Man the proverbial levies of freedom! Line them with the sandbags of liberty! Let them know how you feel about the impending threats to the ways of life that these good white men have known and loved for generations. Don't let a tragedy that we can prevent come to pass without a fight.