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Terms Limits for Congress

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

This is something I will fight for and I hope you read it all the way through. You will be glad you did.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months &and 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, before e-mail, before 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.

I’m asking all who read this to forward this post to a minimum of twenty people or more on their address lists; 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. Term Limits.

12 years only, one of the possible options below..

A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. 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.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

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, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and get back to their local work.

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Miller Farms Equine – Mad As Hell with AARP, Government and Illegal Immigrants

Posted on March 31, 2010 by

I find this very interesting reading, so let’s keep it going if you agree. It only takes a few days on the Internet and this will have reached 75% of the public in the U.S.A. Seniors need to stand up for what is right, not what the politicians want or big Corporations want. I JUST replied to AARP on their renewal form that I will not support an organization that supports healthcare takeover, SEIU, ACORN and all the other leftwing socialist programs being rammed down our throats by Nancy Pelosi and her radical wing that hijacked the Democratic Party.

We as a country need to WAKE UP. This was sent to Mr. Rand who is the Executive Director of AARP.

THIS LADY NOT ONLY HAS A GRASP OF ‘THE SITUATION’ BUT AN INCREDIBLE COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

Dear Mr. Rand:

Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed membership in AARP by the requested date. I know it is not what you were looking for, but this is the most honest response I can give you. Our gap in coverage is merely a microscopic symptom of the real problem, a deepening lack of faith.

While we have proudly maintained our membership for several years and have long admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer endorse it’s abdication of our values. Your letter specifically stated that we can count on AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours. Your offer of being kept up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents neither an impartial view nor the one we have come to embrace. We do believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything presented to them, one is probably not necessary. But, when the opinions and long term goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce is imminent. This is the philosophy which spawned our 200 years of government.

Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior demographic. We also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we could not possibly hope to achieve on our own. AARP gave us a sense of belonging which we no longer enjoy. The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama administration and empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of interest there!

We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the guiding forces that we expected to map out our senior years and leave your ranks with a great sense of regret. We mitigate that disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership. There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities.

This Presidential Administration scares the living daylights out of us. Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and bloodstained heritage. But even more importantly for our children and grandchildren. Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic. I have never in my life endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find myself listening to them. I don’t have to agree with them to appreciate the fear which birthed their existence. Their borderline insanity presents little more than a balance to the voice of the Socialist mindset in power. Perhaps I became American by a great stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the responsibilities it requires.

Your website generously offers us the opportunity to receive all communication in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING??? Someone has broken into our ‘house’, invaded our home without our invitation or consent. The President has insisted we keep the perpetrator in comfort and learn the perp language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome to them. We do not need to reform our immigration laws, we just need to enforce the ones we already have. After all we are not talking about immigrants we are talking about illegals.

I DON’T choose to welcome them.

I DON’T choose to support them.

I DON’T choose to educate them.

I DON’T choose to medicate them, pay for their food or clothing.

American home invaders get arrested.

Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on American soil that Americans do not get?

Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and others only have to break & enter to be welcomed?

We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there. He meets more people than a politician on caffeine overdose. Of all the many good folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE supporter of the current administration. One of us is out of touch with mainstream America . Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have more faith in it than one which is power driven.

We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will encourage them to do the same. With several hundred in my address book, I have every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a credible statement to you.

I am disappointed as hell. I am scared as hell.

I am MAD as hell, and I’m NOT gonna take it anymore!

Walt & Cyndy

Miller Farms Equine Transport

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The Truth about the Health Care Bills by Michael Connelly

Posted on March 20, 2010 by

The Truth About the Health Care Bills – Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own.

The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, of all of your personal healthcare direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law It doesn’t stop there though.

The 9th Amendment that provides : The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;

The 10th Amendment states : The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution.” If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly

Retired attorney,

Constitutional Law Instructor

Carrollton , Texas

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Unhealthy from Pueblo Chieftain

Posted on November 11, 2009 by

NANCY PELOSI got her political victory Saturday night when the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that would ultimately give the government total control of health care and 20 percent of the nation’s economy.

The bill passed by only five votes – 220-215, after 39 Democrats refused to be bullied into supporting this monstrosity. And a monstrosity it is.
It requires all Americans to enroll in a “qualified plan.” If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a “grace period” to switch you to a “qualified plan,” one which is designed by the secretary of health and human services.

What’s more, it provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the secretary of health and human services will decide what a “qualified plan” covers and how much you’ll be legally required to pay for it. Would you sign a bank loan that allowed the banker to decide 18 months later the interest rate and repayment terms?

The bill makes it clear that, although the “qualified plan” is not yet designed, it will be of the “one size fits all” category. The bill claims to offer choice, but the benefits are the same. Only the co-pays and deductibles differ. The bill says that when you file your federal income tax returns, you will have to include proof that you are in a “qualified plan.” If not, you will be fined thousands of dollars.

In one effort to “pay” for the so-called public option, the bill eviscerates Medicare by an estimated $500 billion. This at a time when the Baby Boom generation is getting ready to retire and enroll in Medicare.

But not to worry. Because Washington bureaucrats will decide what kind of care retirees can get – meaning how much or how little of it.

Rationing will be right around the corner.

Three sections of the bill initiate programs to reduce payments for patient care to what it costs in the lowest cost regions of the country. Boy, we can see doctors flocking to treat all those new Medicare Baby Boomers.

Of course, the Pelosis of this world tell us with certitude how much the total cost of this government boondoggle will cost the taxpayers. Don’t believe a word of it.

Rather, let history be the guide. In 1965, when Congress was considering Medicare legislation, the House Ways and Means Committee estimated that the hospital insurance portion of the program, Part A, would cost about $9 billion annually by 1990. But the actual cost by 1990 was $67 billion a year.

That same committee predicted the entire cost of Medicare by 1990 would be about $12 billion. Actual medicare spending in 1990 was $110 billion – off by nearly a factor of 10.

Two sections of the Pelosi plan establish racial and ethnic preferences in awarding grants for training nurses. Gee, we thought the Obama presidency was supposed to be post-racial.

The Pelosi plan forces the states to spend more on Medicaid at a time when state budgets are taking body blows from the sour economy. So, state taxes will have to go up or other state functions will have to absorb even more losses so the Medicaid welfare program can grow.

The Senate now takes up its own health plans in earnest – the president gave those deliberations a rah-rah send-off on Sunday. All we can hope is that Majority Leader Harry Reid can’t muster the 60 votes he needs to pass a Senate version of the monstrosity that would be government-run health care.

When the vast majority of Americans find out what’s in store for them, the politicians who support this madness will find themselves looking for employment elsewhere.

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HealthCare HR3962 Passed the House 11-7-2009

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

In the dark of night on a Saturday they did it. Two hundred and twenty members of the House of Representatives voted to place the government in control of your health care. It’s the largest expansion of government in our lifetimes. The $1.2 TRILLION package features rationed care for seniors and veterans, nearly $700 billion in tax hikes on small businesses, a government-run insurance plan and a mandate to purchase government-forced insurance (backed by criminal sanctions).

Call & Email Your Congressman Now!

There are over 2,000 pages to wade through before we know exactly what else is in Speaker Pelosi‘s government-run health care bill. Unfortunately, the speaker broke her promise to make the final bill public 72 hours prior to a vote. What is certain is the bill that passed last night:

  • Creates new entitlement programs based on the nearly bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid programs;
  • Forces individuals to pay for government-regulated insurance or face criminal sanctions (effectively a $15,000 mandate based on Congressional Budget Office projections);
  • Outlaws private health insurance plans, rendering false the claim that you can keep the insurance plan you have now;
  • Pays for reform by taxing small businesses and cutting $500 billion from Medicare;
  • Places a bureaucrat in between you and your doctor to make sure your care can be rationed.

Doctors will become scarcer as their civil rights are diminished, Americans will have less choice and lower quality care under a government-run insurance plan and millions of middle-class citizens will drown in unbearable taxes.

Click here to find out how your Representative voted.

Last night’s vote was a victory for Speaker Pelosi and the Administration. But the battle is far from over. Call your Congressman now.

If you Representative voted:

  • Against the bill — thank them for putting patients first;
  • For the bill – tell them they cast the wrong vote. Then email your friends and ask them to call theirCongressmen. Send them this link (http://www.rallycongress.com/patients-first) to make it easy.

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