Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, options below:
Two Six year Senate terms
Six Two year House terms
One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

2. No Tenure / No Pension: A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security: All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. Social Security increases will be the same as the congressional pay raises Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11. 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, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

This is an excellent commentary from the view in the ER. Those doctors, male and female, see it all, and it's never very pretty!

This was a letter to the editor on August 29, 2009 in a Jackson , MS newspaper.

Dear Sirs: "During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer. And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care? Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow.

Don't you agree?

STARNER JONES, MDJackson , MS

How Taxes REALLY work!

The economy is a ZERO SUM GAME! What is a “zero sum game” you ask? It is when there are exactly two sides to an issue and in order for one side to gain the other must lose and equal amount of what ever is being exchanged.

In the case of TAXES you have money coming out of the economy (big business) and being “redistributed” to the beneficiaries of the TAX (government).

Pelosi is saying that she wants to TAX large corporations and use the money to build infrastructure which would in turn create jobs. What she doesn’t tell you is, that same money was already supporting jobs at the companies she wants to TAX!

In other words we can take jobs from the private sector and move them to the government.

Do you want to wake up one day to find that you must go down to the Labor Distribution Department headquarters with your child to apply for a license to be assigned a job? That’s Pelosi’s “New World Order”. The government will tell you what job you can do for the rest of your life. They will set your pay, (you won’t need much since everything will be free anyway right?) you will have no say over what career path you choose.

You CAN NOT continue to TAX people or companies to pay for new social services. But this congress, this administration just doesn’t seem to understand that! Every day, it seems, they come up with a new TAX for something. And we already are TRILLIONS in the red on the current bloated state of social programs the Federal Government was NEVER authorized to implement by our Constitution anyway!

Hang in there America 2012 is coming and it MOST DEFINTELY will be the end of the world (for the liberals)!

You are TEN TIMES more likely to die from the regular flu than you are from H1N1

“At least 1 million Americans have now contracted the novel H1N1 influenza, according to mathematical models prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/26/science/sci-swineflu26). Same article: “Although 1 million seems like a high number, between 15 million and 60 million Americans are infected by the influenza virus during a normal flu season.”

Let’s use 35 Million Americans infected by the flu each year and do some math.

Of the 35,000,000 Americans who contract the flu each year, roughly 36,000 die, EVERY YEAR! That’s .0010285% of cases ending in death contributed to flu or complications from flu. That’s ONE ONEHUNDREDTH of a percent.

The article states that 1,000,000 Americans have contracted H1N1 thus far and 127 have died ( as of June 26th 2009). That’s .000127% of cases ending in death.
That’s ONE THOUSANDTH of a percent!

What does this mean? Well it means that if you get the regular flu you are not very likely to die from it! And if you get the H1N1 flu, you are 10 times less likely to die from IT than you are from the regular flu!

YOU ARE BEING LIED TOO AMERICA!

Joe Wilson: A Modern Day Nicodemus

When Jesus spoke the most famous verse in the Bible (John 3:16), he was speaking to a man named Nicodemus. While reading a commentary (Henry) I came across this, regarding this man Nicodemus:

He was a ruler of the Jews, a member of the great sanhedrim, a senator, a privy-counsellor, a man of authority in Jerusalem. Bad as things were, there were some rulers well inclined, who yet could do little good because the stream was so strong against them; they were over-ruled by the majority, and yoked with those that were corrupt, so that the good which they wished to do they could not do; yet Nicodemus continued in his place, and did what he could, when he could not do what he would.

It occured to me that Joe Wilson is in much the same situation today! He is yoked by the liberal majority in Congress.

I think Representative Wilson should take Speaker Pelosi's offer to appologize on the floor of the US House of Representatives. I've taken the liberty to write his speach for him:

Speaker Pelosi, distinguished members, I've come here today to express my deapest regrets, I AM SORRY! I'm sorry that the President of the United States of America is a liar! I'm sorry that the people have been, repeatedly, misled by their own governement. I'm sorry that our grandchildren will still be paying for your private jets! I'm sorry that YOU, Mrs. Speaker, refuse to obey the very constitution you swore to uphold.

Thank you for you time. Now I have to go see how much money the non-existant right wing conservatives have deposited into my campagin fund.

I know I'd donate, if I got to watch THAT on CSPAN!

One Nation Under God!

" Throughout the years, down to the present, a devotion to fundamental religious principles has characterized American thought and action."

" Today these basic religious ideas are challenged by atheism and materialism: at home in the cynical philosophy of many of our intellectuals, abroad in the doctrine of collectivism, which sets up the twin pillars of atheism and materialism as the official philosophical establishment of the State.
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Inspired by a deeply religious sense, this country, which has ever been devoted to the dignity of man, which has ever fostered the growth of the human spirit, has always met and hurled back the challenge of those deathly philosophies of hate and despair. We have defeated them in the past; we will always defeat them."
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"May God grant that, at some distant date, on this day, and on this platform, the orator may be able to say that these are still the great qualities of the American character and that they have prevailed." -- John F. Kennedy July 4th 1946

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Archives+and+Manuscripts/Kennedy.John+F/jfk_pre-pres/subcoll_1_HoR/02.+Speeches/Independence+Day+Speech+1946.htm

JFK believed that "collectivism" in all it's forms, is a "deathly philosophy of hate and despair." Collectivism or Socialism or Communism, no matter its name, always ends in the despair of its people. In this speech, Kennedy notes that the attact from Socialism, at the time, came from abroad; imagine his disapointment had he lived to see that attact, today, comming from within the very halls of the United States Congress!

A program, run by the Federal government, of nationalized health care, which seeks to "redistribute" care from those who, currently, have it, to those who do not, will end in the same kind of despair.

JFK said that up until that point ( in 1946 ) we had always defeated the philosphies of death and despair, we must hope he was right when he said "and we always will!"

Was Senator Edward Moore Kennedy a “Great American?"

Recently, Chirs Daniel, of KMJ580 Radio in Fresno CA asked his audience if Edward Kennedy was a great American. I couldn't call in that day Chris so here is my answer.

First, let’s define a “Great American."

To be considered “great” one must distinguish oneself from the rest of the population. For example, a football player who stands out with regard to outstanding stats, strong leadership skills both on and off the field, might be considered a “Great Football Player."

So what could we use to define a “Great American?" Well what is a “basic American?"

Let’s define a basic American as any individual who currently holds the status as a, legal, American Citizen. Beyond that status we can begin to distinguish great Americans from average Americans.

So, was Senator Kennedy an “American?” yes, we all agree on that point. So what did Mr. Kennedy do, during his lifetime that might distinguish him as something more than the basic American we described above? We’ll he “served” as a Senator for over 40 years. OK, that’s definitely something that would cause him to stand out from the “Basic” American we described; let’s face it, the vast majority of us never server in any public capacity let alone as Senator or much less for over 40 years.

So, we can certainly agree that Mr. Kennedy distinguished himself as a Senator. But, it’s a very different thing to say that a person was “a great Senator” than to say “he was great at being a Senator."

I would certainly think we can all agree Mr. Kennedy was great at being a Senator. His political skills should be apparent by the sheer longevity of his career. But does longevity automatically translate into “greatness"? As a Senator he would have needed to distinguish himself as a man who could lead the American people from dependence upon the government to indepence and self reliance. But that is not Mr. Kennedy’s legacy. His idealistic policies took a much darker path.

Consider, for a moment, the following men: Fidel Castro, Sadam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.

Fidel Castro “served” his country for over 50 years. Did his presence increase the living standards of his people? Should he be considered “a great Cuban?” No, clearly not. Why, because his actions systematically led to the inability of the people of Cuba to live free and make their own decisions about what’s best for them; Fidel Castor served himself and no other!

Sadam Hussein was “president” of Iraq for 23 years. Would anyone say he was “a great Iraqi?” I think not! He was “a great dictator for sure” but “a great Iraqi” I don’t think so. He killed his own people for political power and gain. He was a mad man, but yet he “served (himself) for 23 years” as a "politician".

Osama Bin Laden has been a terrorist for most of his life. Can we say he is “a great terrorist” sure, he has distinguished himself in that area, I mean his stats are second to none when it comes to the number of Americans killed in a single day and on their home turff. So we can say he’s a great terrorist, but “a great Saudi” I would think the Saudi’s would disagree( well some of them would, OK you got me, they might actually like the guy).

So the point is, longevity does not make a person great it just makes them old.

So the fact that Mr. Kennedy was a US Senator for over 40 years in no way, in and of itself, means that he should be considered a “Great American”.

In order to determine his “greatness”, as an American, we need to examine how his life and his work made the lives of other Americans great.

Let’s consider the life of Mary Jo Kopechne; having known Ted Kennedy certainly did not turn out so “great” for her.

How about the American people in general? What did Mr. Kennedy do for them over those long 40+ years in the Senate? We’ll he spent, their money, like a drunken sailor; well at least a drunk with a yacht. His spending has led to ( he is certainly not single handedly responsible for all the spending, he had help from the rest of the Socialists ) the largest deficits in American ( and world for that matter ) history!

Since Mr. Kennedy ranks third on the all time length of service list, we can say this about him, he certainly did more than most Americans, and even most Senators to move America further away from it’s founding principals than any other before him. His policies have enslaved millions of Americans into lives of reliance on the State. His “compassion” for the masses has resulted in more misery and suffering, of Americans, than all but two other members of Congress. He taught generations of Americans to “ask not what they could do for their Country, but to ask what the Democrat Party could do for them!”

His final act as a Senator, was to request that the Democrat Governor of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts, repeal a law that requires a special election to fill a vacated Senatorial seat in that State so that the Democrats could maintain a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and push onto the American people, even after his death, the most despicable form of socialism known to man; socialized medicine.

No Chris, Mr. Edward Moore Kennedy was NOT a “Great American”, he was an outstanding socialist, a skilled and shrewd politician, but as an American, there was nothing great about him.