The following letter was written by a friend of mine.
Dear Sen. Biden-
I voted enthusiastically for you and Sen. Obama and would do so again in a heartbeat.
But I am concerned going forward about your support for the credit industry at the expense of working people. I am fine, but a very dear friend of mine is in deep financial trouble.
You see, she was in the process of a divorce from an abusive husband who had undergone extensive medical treatment for depression when he committed suicide in September. She is now faced with her own steep medical bills from rheumatoid arthritis, her ex-husband's medical bills and car payments and a mortgage on her home. She even has to pay off his credit card bill, which includes the gun her ex-husband used to kill himself.
She is in deep financial straits, yet she cannot declare bankruptcy because of the law you spearheaded to protect the credit card companies. You and Congress have found it in the country's best interest to bail out the banks that put us in this mess. Yet ordinary citizens who have been hit with more than their fair share of bad luck are suffering terribly in the meantime.
As a Democrat I reach out to you in your new position as Vice President of the United States--versus senator of a bank-friendly state-- to put the marginalized people of America at least on par with the banks you are striving to rescue. It's the Democratic thing to do.
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