Your elected officials are supposed to represent you to the best of their ability. Let me repeat that - to the best of their ability. Their job is to put themselves in your shoes. Here are the two biggest problems with that. They’re used to wearing $400 wingtips while you’re stuck wearing Nike knock-offs and they are treating their jobs like hobbies.

I’m all about everyone getting ahead in life, but it seems Congressmen tend to get ahead faster than the rest of us. Only 1% of Americans are millionaires, but 35% of those in Congress are. That doesn’t seem like a representative sample to me. I bet your Senators don’t use coupons at the grocery store. I bet they don’t even wish they had used coupons. I bet they don’t even do their own shopping.

So why do we trust their opinions about what we should buy when it comes to student aid? Their children don’t need loans to pay for college. If any of them have student loans it is probably as part of some complicated tax deduction scheme, not necessity. They say they understand the importance of education, but do they understand that not everyone can just write a check to pay for it? If they know what we really need, why do they keep drafting legislation like the Sunshine Act which clearly isn’t what we need?

Maybe I’m being too tough on them. They are representing the people to the best of their ability. They don’t understand things that you and I take as common sense. They can’t be expected to know how the other half, or in this case the other 99%, live! And that’s why you and I and everyone we know needs to get more involved. Call your Representative. Email your Senator. Sign the petition to stop the student loan tax. Tell them that they need to stop representing themselves and start representing you! Make it clear to them you want better student aid, not less!

We are opposed to the proposed student loan legislation and middle-class families should be too! The government is taking money out of YOUR POCKET.

It only takes one minute to make a difference: call your senators, send your senators an e-mail, download a letter to fax to your senators, become part of our petition and help your friends find out the truth about the proposed student loan legislation.