Showing posts with label Deficit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deficit. Show all posts

Fw: Fwd: Salaries

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More from Buffett
MJ
Subject: Fwd: Salaries


Buffet Rule Salary of retired US Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . $180,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate members . . . . . . . . $174,000 FOR LIFE This is stupid
Salary of Speaker of the House . . . . . . . . . . $223,500 FOR LIFE This is really stupid
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders . . . . . . . . $193,400 FOR LIFE Ditto last line
Average Salary of a teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $40,065
Average Salary of a deployed Soldier . . . . . . . $38,000
I think we found where the cuts should be made! If you agree pass it on, I just did.
Warren Buffet, in an 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 one (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 2013
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're 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/women are void effective 12/1/13. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.
Congress 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. Don't you think it's time?
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!
If you agree, pass it on. If not, delete.
You are one of my 20+ - Please keep it going, and thanks          

FW: Here you go folks ( please watch and pass on)

 
Subject: FW: Here you go folks ( please watch and pass on)
 






Subject: Here you go folks ( please watch and pass on)


IF YOU FORWARD THIS E MAIL, PLEASE DELETE THE FORWARDING HISTORY WHICH INCLUDES MY E MAIL ADDRESS. IT IS A COURTESY TO ME AND OTHERS WHO MAY NOT WANT TO HAVE THEIR E MAIL ADDRESSES SENT ALL OVER THE WORLD. ERASING THE HISTORY HELPS PREVENT SPAMMERS FROM MINING ADDRESSES AND VIRUSES.

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Fwd: One minute moment of truth - Outstanding!

Subject: Fwd: One minute moment of truth - Outstanding!
 
Power Line Blog held a prize competition for $100,000 for whoever can most effectively and creatively dramatize the significance of the federal debt crisis.  Any creative product was eligible: videos, songs, paintings, screenplays, Power Point presentations, essays, performance art, or anything else
 
Several entries have gotten a lot of attention and a lot of views or listens.  But unquestionably, the most popular so far is Doorbell.  If you haven’t yet seen it, you may watch it here.
 
DOORBELL
 
www.ntrc.info/doorbell.html  

Fiddling as the debt ceiling falls in - US economy - MSN Money


 
 
Subject: Fiddling as the debt ceiling falls in - US economy - MSN Money
 

Fw: Warren Buffett


Re:  Warren Buffett


Midwestern tycoon Warren Buffett, presented his quick and easy solution to America’s debt problem today on CNBC:
“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than three percent of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
(Lots of luck on getting such a bill introduced, let alone passed -- but we can pray, can't we.)

FWD: INTERESTING QUOTE

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INTERESTING QUOTE


"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

SENATOR BARACK H. OBAMA, MARCH, 2006

Fw: Our fiscal situation...please watch.

Subject: Our fiscal situation...please watch.



   If this video doesn't "make you a little nervous" then god help us.  I know many will quibble over the figures but putting an ant on a railroad track doesn't derail a runaway train.

 

This puts our fiscal situation into real perspective.

Fw: Inherited?????

I'm Sick of hearing "Inherited"
The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush, blah blah blah.
Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this nonsense.  So once more, let’s try a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House.  They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.  They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011.  In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.  For FY 2009, though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office.  At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets (remember the pork?).
And where was Barack Obama during this time?  He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.  Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period:


If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets.  That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.  After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.  If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is, I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since beginning my term.
WAKE UP, AMERICA, BEFORE IT’S TO LATE


 
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