Economic Stimulus Package
The economic stimulus package is still being debated.
This is an excellent opportunity for us to finally make the switch over to the metric system. We're about to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure improvements and we could use that opportunity to do the improvements in metric and make other concrete steps towards getting onto the international system of units. This will not only provide stimulus to the economy now, it'll help us in the future as we'll finally be on a single system of measurement and we'll be building in the same measurement system as everyone else so our exports will be more attractive.
What can you do to help make this a reality?
Call your federal and state representatives today and let them know you want metrication in the stimulus bill!
The US Capitol switchboard number is +1 (202) 224-3121
Don't know who your representatives are?
Enter your ZIP here:
This will take you to congress.org which has additional ways you can contact your representatives (and direct links to their mailboxes if you want to email/snail mail them). If you can, please call instead of emailing them. It's fare more effective (but don't despair if you don't like the phone, your voice will still be heard if you mail them). Snail mail is apparently the most effective, but it's a bit slow at this point (unless you overnight it).
on 2009-02-09 at 08:24
