[CS-FSLUG] It seems that Obama may be the "great Uniter" after all.

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

Regardless of where you stand politically, I think that it is time to say
that Barak Obama has done America a great deal of good!  Wait! Don't click
away from this page just yet.

Like you, I disagree with most of his 'policies', and certainly don't want
to re-elect him.  But take a look at this which has been circulating on
the net. I received it from my older brother, with whom I have had little
agreement on things political for a very long time.  I assume he sent it
because he considers that there is some wisdom in it. I do, and I suspect
that you do too.

That's what I mean. Barak Obama's policies have (by their sheer
foolishness) called attention to the major flaws of our political system,
to such an extent that they have 'right' and 'left' agreeing on some
pretty important ideas.  He has proved to be a 'great uniter' after all.

Generally speaking I think that I can safely say that the majority of us
agree on quite a few very important points:

We agree that the problems that we have were building for a very long
time.  Under both 'Democrat' and 'Republican' administrations.

We agree that all three branches of government: Executive, Judicial, and
legislative (and even - or maybe especially - the unofficial fourth branch
- the 'free press') have failed in their responsibility.

We agree that our problems have their genesis in greed, ignorance, and
opportunism, and are allowed to continue their downward course chiefly
because of our own apathy.

We are starting to agree that their might be something that we can do
short of mob violence (always fruitless , or fruitful for causes none of
us really wants to support).

Maybe this is the time to do something together. The suggestions below are
just suggestions, and would represent only a start. The ideas will need to
be refined but not by committees,or legislators – rather by housewives and
husbands, students and laborers, And then they need to be turned into
practical steps to get them on the ballots in various states.

Well, from here on is what my brother sent to me.  How much of it is his
own idea, or how much he is passing on from others, I don't know, but
someone has thought some of this through rather thoroughly.
Dave McM

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----- This would work, Maybe.  it would be interesting to try.  Mac



        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 !!!!!