Wednesday, July 21, 2010

28th Amendment?

A friend of mine sent me this... I like it so much I'm going to shamelessly plagiarize it.  If you agree, please pass the message along to 20 people in your network.

Governors of 35 states have already filed suit against the Fed eral Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them.  It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

The following will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

An idea whose time has come...

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn't pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.  This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Have each person contact 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 proposal that  really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment
to the United States Constitution

"Congress shall make no law
that applies to the citizens of the United States
that does not apply equally
to the Senators and/or Representatives;
and, Congress shall make no law
that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives
that does not apply equally
to the citizens of the United States."

You are one of my 20!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Independence Day

As we approach the official anniversary of the founding of our Republic, we should pause to reflect on the meaning of Independence.  Here are ten things I’d like our country to be Independent of:

10. Non-critical, ungrounded commentary – parroted, packaged & distributed; anchored by an intentionally ineffective Fourth Estate
9. Reality TV 
8. Bad manners and general lack of civility (which came first, the #9 or the #8?) in all domains of life – a modicum of decorum is still necessary for everyone to realize their Pursuit of Happiness
7. Permanent, Full-Time Politicians, even worse than standing Armies
6. Double-dipped and spiked public pensions (#7 & #6 are competing with #8 & #9 !) exemplifying the shift in our culture from industry and contribution to bureaucracy and entitlement
5. The 1999 Graham-Leach-Bliley Act repealing banking/speculation separation prohibition of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, together with the allowance of multiple layers of synthetic derivatives (the towering house of shaky cards built by Goldman Sachs that is amplifying the worldwide financial crisis).  Giving the country over to the Financial Elite was perhaps not the best idea in the history of the USA…
4. Politically-driven public education… having schools as political footballs and training grounds for future ranks of full-time politicians is at best a distraction from focusing on the education of our youth -- as Frank Zappa said, “shut up and play yer guitar”
3. Government-issued statistics (major dietary item for #10)
2. Customer service policies that say “I understand…” but mean “SCREW YOU!”

and finally…

1. Brand marketing that concatenates  two English-sounding names, with or without hyphen… our Republic fought hard to gain independence from the British Empire; why the nostalgia?!

So go online and read some of the original text of our Declaration of Independence  http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html .  Guaranteed to be inspiring, guaranteed never to go out of fashion.

Happy 4th!