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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 589804" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">people send me stuff....just sharing.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Deficit solution?</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers must</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">eliminated as well.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Wall street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">type of "tough decision", and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Our government should not be immune from similar risks.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Therefore:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">members..</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Reduce Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State).</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Then, reduce their staff by 25%.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Accomplish this over the next 8 years</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(two steps/two elections) and of course this would require some</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">redistricting.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$165,200 pay/member/ yr.)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$97,175,000 for elimination of their staff. (estimate $1.3 Million in staff</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Senate every year)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year. (those members</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">are at $15 Billion/yr)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and improve</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">the good of our country!</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">your representative is doing.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">when the current number of representatives was established. (telephone,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">computers, cell phones to name a few)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Note:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Congress did not hesitate to head home when it was a holiday, when the</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">nation needed a real fix to the economic problems... Also, we have 3</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">senators that wer not doing their jobs for the 18+ months (on</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">thecampaign trail) and still they all have accepted full pay. These</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">facts alone support a reduction in senators & congress.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Summary of opportunity:</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$ 44,108,400 reduction of congress members.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$282,100, 000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of congress</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">members.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">$8,073,383,400 per year, estimated total savings. (that's 8-BILLION just to start!)</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Big business does these types of cuts all the time.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years (like everyone</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">else) in order to collect retirement benefits, tax payers could save a</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">bundle.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 589804, member: 1246"] [FONT=Tahoma]people send me stuff....just sharing.[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Deficit solution?[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers must[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]eliminated as well.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Wall street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]type of "tough decision", and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Our government should not be immune from similar risks.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Therefore:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]members..[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Reduce Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State).[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Then, reduce their staff by 25%.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Accomplish this over the next 8 years[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana](two steps/two elections) and of course this would require some[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]redistricting.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$165,200 pay/member/ yr.)[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$97,175,000 for elimination of their staff. (estimate $1.3 Million in staff[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Senate every year)[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year. (those members[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]are at $15 Billion/yr)[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and improve[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]the good of our country![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]your representative is doing.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]when the current number of representatives was established. (telephone,[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]computers, cell phones to name a few)[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Note:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Congress did not hesitate to head home when it was a holiday, when the[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]nation needed a real fix to the economic problems... Also, we have 3[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]senators that wer not doing their jobs for the 18+ months (on[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]thecampaign trail) and still they all have accepted full pay. These[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]facts alone support a reduction in senators & congress.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Summary of opportunity:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$ 44,108,400 reduction of congress members.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$282,100, 000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of congress[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]members.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]$8,073,383,400 per year, estimated total savings. (that's 8-BILLION just to start!)[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Big business does these types of cuts all the time.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]If Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years (like everyone[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]else) in order to collect retirement benefits, tax payers could save a[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]bundle.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana]Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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