MY TURN!
Where Are The Unions
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Read your history books about the unions of the 1930’s. Then ask yourself, where are the unions today. The union leaders have gotten entirely too civilized for the workers of the United States and the workers are loosing ground at every turn. All of the jobs have been exported to China with hardly a whimper.
It is time for organized labor to put one million workers on the mall in Washington DC to demand that there be universal, government paid health care for everyone and that foreigh companies doing business here be taxed on their world-wide revenues.
Stand up! Take off your Gucci shoes and Brooks Brothers suits! It is time to march!
Health Care For Everyone
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There is presently a struggle between giant multi-national corporations and their surrogates our elected members of congress and the people of the United States over whether or not the poor and disenfranchised should be entitled to any health care at all. Whether the child of a wealthy person is more valuable than a child of a poor person. Whether working families should be ruined because of enormous medical bills. All the while the members of congress have the very best health care available and the very best retirement benefits. Many of them are raking in enormous amounts in the form of re-election campaign funds from the very corporations that they are supposed to be regulating. It is no wonder that the members of congress almost invariably side with the big corporations.
Our system would be unrecognizable by John Adams who felt that it was a citizens duty to serve in congress with little or no compensation. Congress is corrupt to the core and the only thing that will save it is an amendment to the constitution that forbids contributions to elected officials of any kind and limits all congress persons to one (perhaps 6 year) term limit.
CEO Pay
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Here is the story plain and simple. You corporate CEO’s and other executives who are raking in billions in salary, stock options and other scams are criminals. These are PUBLICLY owned corporations. That means that the corporation is owned by individuals; you and me! These outrageous salaries and benefits is just stealing from the stockholders and the sooner we take them to court and eventually to jail over it the better off everyone will be. No human being needs a million dollar salary, let along all of the other benefits. Even when their corporations go bankrupt, lost stockholders money and bleed the taxpayers dry, they keep on giving themselves huge bonus’, salaries and benefits
Term Limits
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OK, lets make this short and sweet. EVERY elected official should be limited to one single term. There should be NO professional politicians. The very greatness of this country really stems from the days when common citizens were sent off to Washington to represent the views and interests of their constituants. Now we have political hacks who live and die in Washington and whose sole purpose in life is to get re-elected. I am not smart enough to figure out how to get term limits in place since the very politicians with the most to lose from term limits also make the laws (including giving themselves pay raises and generous health and pension benefits). There isn’t any reason that anyone should go back to Washington, stay a few years and come away set for life! That is NOT what our democracy was supposed to be about. What we have now is a corporate autocracy. Not a democracy.
Organized Religions Of The World
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Organized religion; teachers of world hatred and intolerance. How many millions of people must die because of the beliefs that they have been taught? In an age where scientific inquiry as pretty much proven that our origin is a long slow evolution how is it possible that so many ignorant people can be duped into handing over their lives and fortunes to religious charlatans? Beats me!
The Economy Is Booming!
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Do YOU think the economy is recovering? Do YOU have better pay, a more secure job, better health care, better retirement benefits and a better future for your children? Are YOU looking forward to being able to send your children to a first rate college and having the money to pay for their expenses? When politicians and economists talk about how the economy is doing so well I wonder what they mean. Do they really mean that the stock market and multi-national corporations are doing well? Do they really mean that the top 5% of the population is doing well because they benefit from a booming stock market and company bonuses plus executive pay? When I look around I don’t see the average working family doing very well. Both parents are working full time, frequently they don’t have adequate medical care and may never have a chance to “retire” because they don’t have and probably never will have enough money salted away to live on through retirement years. Add to that is the relentless attempt by politicians and their supporters, big business to destroy social security and medicare. Probably a better term for the economy is “exploding” rather than recovering.
40th Constitutional Amendment
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No legislator may accept any form of payment, gift, service, stipend, gratuity or donation no matter what the value. To do so shall be immediate dismissal from congress with revocation of all benefits.
39th Constitutional Amendment
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It shall be a federal felony punishable by 20 years in prison for individuals, corporations or other organizations to lobby members of congress or to make any contributions personally or to their re-election campaigns.
38th Constitutional Amendment
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Every income earning entity in the United States shall pay 6% of their income as federal income taxes. No exemptions and no deductions. This includes all business, corporations, individuals, all charities, all churches, all associations. Everyone! No special exemptions for every cockamamie church or charity that someone dreams up, no windfalls for big corporations. Everyone pays their fair share. I suppose there was once some logic to allowing religious organizations off without paying any tax on their income. Charities too. The world has changed. Now we have “religious” organizations that molest kids, support terrorists and commit other crimes in the name of “god”. There are millions of charities who collect billions of tax free dollars so they can fly around in their corporate jets, pay their executives obscene salaries and pay out to the needy as little as 5% or 10% of what they take in. I ask you, is this worthy of a tax exemption? The world has changed. We have to grow up!
Population Crunch
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According to census we are now over 300M people. Most of the new additions seem to be from newborns of immigrants, both legal and illegal. It is time that we put an end to the law that allows all babies born in the United States to automatically become citizens. If their parents aren’t U.S. citizens there is no reason whatever to make their children U.S. citizens. We are paying every day for the added pollution, crowding and enviornmental damages because of about a million too many people in the country. The only beneficiaries besides the illegal aliens is big business who demand continuous growth to sustain their gargantuan appetites for bigger bonus, larger salaries and bigger stock options. How about this idea; every CITIZEN couple who has one child gets a tax credit of say $10,000 annually. We aren’t going to have to provide social services to the second or third children. Every CITIZEN couple who has two children pays the normal income tax. Every CITIZEN couple who has more than two children will pay a penalty of say $10,000 per child annually in additional income tax to provide the additional social services, education, etc. for their children. We better be doing SOMETHING!
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