Real Action to Put the US Economy on a permanent road to recovery.

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just

pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more 

than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible

for re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)

took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! 

The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, 

cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year

or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is 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. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no

pay when they're out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & 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. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all

Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.

Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and

participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the

American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void

effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this

contract with Congressmen/women.

Congress 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. Don't you think it's time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

If you agree, pass it on. If not, delete.

You are one of my 20+ - Please keep it going, and thanks

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Misstated or Lie

The recent rash of mis-representation by those either in public office or vying for political office make me ponder why the media complex refuses to address bald-faced lying and chooses to repeat the euphemisms being used to mask the fact that lying is lying no matter how it is colored to be otherwise.

The lies presented by senators,  public office hopefuls and professional athletes apologizing for "mis-representing" or "mis-stating"  military history, infidelity, political indiscretions for personal gain and other significant falsifications that have been euphemistically  labeled should be an affront to all.  Bill Clinton lying about his infidelity with Monica Lewinsky, George W. Bush exaggerating his military service during the Vietnam War and  manufacturing a WMD threat from Iraq, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Elliot Spitzer, professional athletes and  various other senators and public servants who have been shamed by discovery of indiscretions for which lies were fabricated are some prominent examples. The current presidential advertising campaigns are rift with half-truths and outright lies by both sides that continue unabated.

The use of euphemisms to cover lies is not an acceptable substitute for calling out those who participate in such dishonest and despicable misrepresentations. Let us purge our government of the liars who have loose regard for the truth and refuse to elect those liars who desire public office.

Faith Based Government

Faith Based Government

 (Written July 2006 during Geroge W. Bush's presidential term)

I have faith in the pure ideals of our forefathers who felt that our elected officials should not forward an agenda based on personal beliefs and morality, but an agenda based on the common good of all of those who place them in the seats of government. The biased representation of the electorate to favor those persons with a particular social agenda is an abomination to the great minds that drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights. These fundamental canons of this great nation’s promise of freedom, liberty, justice, opportunity and happiness for all are being severely threatened by our elected officials at every level of government.
The suggestion that the Christian conservative “God” based “faith” is the best solution for governing the masses is an insult to those of differing opinions and the founding principals of this great nation. Forwarding a conservative, religious, intolerant agenda is an affront to the free thinking individualism that made the USA a world leader in tolerance and true democratic process.
The current conservative regime that governs our great country would have us believe that social improvement for the masses is seeded in the religious beliefs of the minority. Funding provided to “faith-based” groups for aid to the poor and destitute opens the door to the wholesale propagation of narrow religious ideals to those made vulnerable by the lack of basic essentials such as food, clothing and shelter. Public funding to religious groups is a clear violation of the constitutional provisions mandating the separation of Church and State that protect individual freedom of choice. These same “faith based” groups that receive the social program funding are preaching political agendas to their congregations under the guise of furthering the salvation of mankind.
 It is as wrong to attempt to legislate morality as it is for the nations’ religious institutions to preach politics from the pulpit.

Tea Party or US Taliban

Tea Party or US Taliban ??

The below link references a narrative from the popular television program "The Newsroom" regarding the serious threat posed by those religious zealots who would have our way of life forever altered to conform to their theology. The reference to the Taliban appropriately links the current religious extremist movement that is the Tea Party with an early but similar type of religious extremism being practiced in the middle east that deprives the citizenry of fundamental rights we take for granted. The  Republican Party relates to the principal of minimal government involvement allowing the exercise of free enterprise without undue interference and should not extend to which God you worship. Being a Republican is a political preference and not a religious one.

Please seriously consider the content of this short clip when you exercise your sacred right and duty to vote for what will best serve ALL of the citizens of our great nation.

Tea Party or US Taliban??