"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
It's also interesting to note that he stated "the buck stops here" because he has always blamed President Bush.
He has proven himself correct. Not only is he a lousy leader, the majority of our Congressmen are lousy leaders.
Why can’t they understand that a successful country can’t have a 30 – 40 billion dollar trade deficit every month, and we can’t continue to spend over a trillion dollars more every year than we take in?
Could it be that they are just a bunch of morons?
And now that our government has been shut down, guess who continues to be paid. You guessed it, the morons that caused the problem.
Our government is so screwed up that our only hope is for the military to take control and restore logic and reason to our government.
How can they do that? I’m glad you ask.
1. Dissolve Congress. Put together two new amendments to the Constitution and don’t have any new elections until they are ratified by the states.
28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Federal elections
* Contributions of Soft money is prohibited
* Contributions from Political Action Committees are prohibited.
* The contribution limit is $1000 per contributor per candidate and political party per year
* Corporations have the same limits as individuals.
* The amount of money any congressional candidate or political party can spend during an election is $2.00 per registered voter in their district. This can increase at the same percentage as Social Security.
*The amount of money a Presidential candidate can spend is $.25 per registered voter in the United States. This can increase at the same percentage as Social Security.
(Note: The monetary figures presented here are quick guesses and would require additional research. The limits on spending are an attempt to place Congress and the President in the hands of the American people, not special interest groups.)
29th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Congress – Rules to Live By
* Any bill presented to the members of Congress can not be voted on until 72 hours have passed for each 100 pages of the bill. This stipulation can be waved at time of war or any other national emergency declared by the President of the United States.
* Any bill or nomination presented to a committee must be passed through the committee within 30 days with a recommendation to return to committee, approve or defeat the bill or nomination.
* Congressional Pension Plan should be the same as for other government employees.
* Congressional pay will rise with the same percentage as Social Security payments.
* Congress will participate in the same health care system as the American people.
* Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
* Lobbyist can only meet with Congressional Members at committee meetings. No individual meetings.
* Congressional Members can not receive any gifts or trips from lobbyists or other personnel trying to win support for a particular issue.
* Congress shall be in a normal session during the months of February, March, April, August, September, and October. Congressional members shall be in their own districts the other 6 months. This does not exclude special sessions.
* Whenever the country is shut down financially because of budget problems or the budget isn’t balanced, members of Congress will not be paid. The exceptions to this are at a time of war or national emergency.
2. Dissolve the Supreme Court. This is harder to rectify and I don’t have a solution, but here is the problem. The Supreme Court is comprised of judges and we need intellectuals. The Supreme Court continually gets it wrong. For instance: Our Founding Fathers made several decisions and entered them into the Constitution. Then they built a society based on the Constitution. Approximately 170 years later, a bunch of liberals got together and declared that several parts of our society were in violation of the constitution. How can that be? Were we wrong from day one? Don’t you think our Founding Fathers knew what they were talking about?
3. Take government department by department and eliminate everything that isn’t absolutely necessary. Balance the budget
4. Make welfare a way of helping the less fortunate, not a way of life for people that don’t want to work. Limit welfare payments to two children. Once on welfare, payments can’t increase due to having another child. See the movie “Runaway Slave” or read the book “Uncle Sam’s Plantation” by Star Parker. Both parents of children must be listed on welfare application. Welfare recipients would be required to have a High School Diploma or the equivalent, or be attending classes to obtain the diploma. If unskilled, welfare Recipients would be required to atttend federal paid for job training. Recipients would be required to pass random drug testing. Welfare payments could not be used for cigarettes or alcohol.
5. Secure our borders. Seek out illegal aliens and ship them home. Two exceptions to this would be adults that came here as children and don’t know any other country and those having critical jobs. They would not be given citizenship right away, but placed in rotation with all of the people legally waiting to come to America.
6. All new entries to the United States will speak fluent English and have a skill that we need. These people must have a job waiting and a sponsor. They can’t apply for welfare or unemployment for two years.
I believe the above changes would give this country a much brighter future, returning the country to the people instead of special interest groups.
Our only hope is that the military gets tired of seeing our country destroyed from within and takes control. The 3 branches of our government are ineffective and running amok. Neither major political party has demonstrated that they can or will solve our problems.
Our problems can be summed up as CLAPS.
Corruption
Liberals
Apathy
Political Correctness
Stupidity
And I bet you thought Clap was just a common human sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Ray R Barmore
San Diego California
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Skype: barmore4
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