How to Reduce the Debt and Fix Congress

As a general rule I haven't elected to print emails I receive. However, during the past week I received one that merits being posted. It makes sense and the author is a highly respected and recognized American. With my thanks to Tim O. here is the idea of Warren Buffett. 

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 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 2011*

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are 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 are void effective 1/1/12. 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.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!

Tolerance Has A Limit

It's been nearly 10 months since I have posted anything to this blog but now the dry spell is over. Many subjects seemed to beg for comment during my absence and I am primed and ready to add my thoughts, observations and not so politically correct comments as todays' events unfold.

On Saturday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai thumbed his nose at the United States and, in my opinion, totally disregarded and disrespected the sacrifice thousands of America's military made for his country. Not to mention helped him rise to the presidency of Afghanistan. 

"God forbid, If ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," he said in a television interview.

He will side with the very country who has allowed fighters sanctuary in its mountains after they've committed atrocities in his nation, who has helped to funnel money, weapons and warped radicals to his war torn nation.

 We have buried more than 1,800 men and women who were killed there and wore the uniform of the United States. Add the more than 14,000 who have been wounded and then try to imagine the loss and hardships for all those families.

The billions of dollars our government has poured in this war could have aided every man, woman and child if used in this country. Our economy would not be in shambles and just perhaps, the poverty level wouldn't keep rising.

To honor those who have fallen and those whose lives have been altered forever, my response would be to mobilize every asset and immediately redeploy every troop, every piece of equipment back to the very country that has saved his ass ... the U.S.A. With the message being you'd go to war against us then you are not an ally but an enemy. Survive or perish on your own.

Undoubtedly there will be those who would scream "human rights." Plain and simple .. it is not right to bury a fallen warrior who was fighting to provide freedom for that country's humanity.

Damn being tolerant ... let's be right!