Unbelievable!!!
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS. CHEVROLET IS NO LONGER AMERICA 'S CAR.
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS. CHEVROLET IS NO LONGER AMERICA 'S CAR.
THIS
IS A MUST SEE. PLEASE WATCH THIS AND YOU DECIDE. I KNOW I WILL NOT BUY ANOTHER
GM PRODUCT.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Congressional Reform Act Proposal
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
took only 3 months and 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded
it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones,
etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2012
1. Term Limits. 12 years only, one of the possible options below..
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure/No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they
are out of office.
3. Congress (past, present and future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social
Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security
system, and Congress participates with the American people.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/13.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
LET'S FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
An interesting proposal
When a company falls on difficult times, one
of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The
remaining workers must find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that
their job be eliminated as well.
Wall Street and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of "tough decision", and the board of directors gives upper corporate management big bonuses.
Our government should not be immune from similar risks.
Therefore:
Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members.
Reduce Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State). Then,
reduce their remaining staff by 25%.
Accomplish this over the next 8 years (two steps/two elections) and of course this would require some redistricting.
Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:
$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X $165,200 pay/member/yr.)
$437,100,000 for elimination of their staff. (Estimate $1.3 Million in staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the Senate every year)
$108,350,000 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.
$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel earmarks each year. (Those members whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks are at $15 Billion/yr).
The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country!
We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing.
Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established. (Telephone, computers, cell phones to name a few)
Note:
Congress does not hesitate to head home for extended weekends,
holidays and recesses, when what the nation needs is a real fix for economic
problems. Also, we had 3 senators who were not doing their jobs for the 18+
months (on the campaign trail) and still they all accepted full pay. Minnesota
survived very well with only one senator for the first half of this year. These
facts alone support a reduction in senators and congress.
Summary of opportunity:
$44,108,400 in reduction of congress members.
$282,100,000 for elimination of the reduced house member staffing.
$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.
$70,850,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.
$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.
$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of congress members.
$8,084,558,400 per year estimated total savings. (That's 8-BILLION just to start!)
Corporate America does these types of cuts all the time. There's even a name for it - "Downsizing."
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Also, if Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30
years (like everyone else) in order to collect retirement benefits, taxpayers
could save a bundle.
Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
First, they will come for the Catholics
What to expect if the Obama
administration is re-elected:
- Catholic institutions will have
to pay for their employees’ birth control or cease to offer health
insurance. This means that thousands of such enterprises (colleges,
schools, publishers, broadcasters) will likely have to close.
- Medical institutions will
suffer the worst. Catholic hospitals will be taken over by secular
corporations or the government. They will then perform abortions,
sterilizations, and sex change operations—and weigh the cost of treating
patients against their “quality of life.”
- Dying Catholics in those
hospitals will have less ready access to priests. So many will be deprived
of the last sacraments.
- Prolife nurses will have fewer
places where they can work—and the “conscience” clause that protects women
from assisting at such procedures will surely be next on the
ever-expanding agenda of an intolerant, growing government.
- Prolife doctors will have fewer
hospitals where they can serve as residents—imperiling their careers if
they refuse to take part in abortions.
If the Feds get away with this,
hundreds of subsequent dominos will fall—too many to mention. We will soon end
up like Catholics in England, whose Catholic adoption agencies had to shut down
for flouting mandated gay adoption. How long will it be till churches of any
kind that refuse to hold gay “weddings” are sued and regulated into compliance?
(That’s starting to happen in the U.K.) Or until schools that defend
traditional marriage are labeled “hate academies” and deprived first of their
tax exemptions, and then of their accreditation?
“Should
any institution, anywhere in society, be allowed to resist public opinion? Or
should the federal government step in and make it conform? Do you want to live
in a free, diverse America, or one where the state co-opts and crushes civil
society, and steam-rollers over the consciences of minorities? Is there some
issue—any issue—where you disagree with the federal government, the NY Times, or NPR? Well if
the Feds get away with doing this, you can kiss your rights goodbye. You’re next, my friend.”
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/john-zmirak/first-they-came-for-the-catholics#ixzz2AWOYrLGK
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/john-zmirak/first-they-came-for-the-catholics#ixzz2AWOYrLGK
Who am I?
I've pushed
for the extension of food stamps and unemployment benefits ... so the poor and
unemployed will vote for me.
I removed the
work to welfare requirement ... so people who don't want to work will vote for
me.
I've thrown
billions of dollars at green energy programs and vetoed the keystone pipeline
... so enviros will vote for me.
I signed an
executive order granting amnesty for illegals ... so more Latinos will vote for
me.
I evolved
into supporting gay marriage ... so gays will vote for me.
I said the
government will pay for women’s birth control, clinic visits, and abortions ...
so more women will vote for me.
I bailed out
the UAW and am expanding government ... so union members across the country
will vote for me.
I took credit
for the elimination of Bin Laden ... because I thought it would bolster my
re-election chances.
Advice for Leftists
Here’s a
little advice for disenchanted lefties …
I urge you to
consider the following alternatives to President Obama.
You’ve got a
number of good choices here and should be able to find someone who is strongly
aligned with your world view.
Jill Stein
and Cheri Honkala – Green Party
Stewart
Alexander and Alex Mendoza – Socialist USA
Roseanne Barr
and Cindy Sheehan – Peace and Freedom Party
James Harris
and Alyson Kennedy – Socialist Workers Party
Gloria La
Riva and Filberto Ramirez Jr. – Socialism and Liberation
Jerry White
and Phyllis Scherrer – Socialist Equity Party
Why this Election is Eddie Haskell versus Ward Clever
In
Campaign 2012, Leave it to Beaver comes to life.
If one digs beneath the superficial similarities, it’s uncanny how Mitt and Obama still stay close to the Ward and Eddie characters. Let me count the ways…
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