Email from a friend

A buddy emailed this to me:
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One question: How do WE "change" this if the polititions are the ones who write the laws?????

Not long ago I read a joke... It said all the politicians running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the change.

Funny? Not really; there is too much truth in it to be funny.

But that got me to thinking... They all promise change.

A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where
things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable.


Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.

We used to have a strong dollar...
Politicians *changed* that.

Marriage used to be sacred...

Politicians have *changed* that.

We used to be respected around the world... Politicians *changed
*that.

We used to have a strong manufacturing economy... Politicians
*changed* that.

We used to have lower tax structures... Politicians *changed* that.

We used to enjoy more freedoms... Politicians *changed* that.

We used to be a large exporter of American-made goods...
Politicians *changed* that.

We used to teach patriotism in schools... Politicians *changed* that.

We used to educate children in schools... Politicians *changed* that.

We used to enforce *LEGAL* citizenship... Politicians *changed* that.

We used to have affordable food & gas prices...

Politicians *changed* that, too... and one could go on and on with this list.

What hasn't been changed, politicians are promising to *change *that as well, if you will elect them.

When, oh when, is America going to sit back with open eyes and look at what we once were and where we have come and say "enough is enough"?

The trouble is, America 's youthful voters today don't know of the great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed as it is now.

When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late. When will America realize... Politicians are what is wrong with America ? This goes for BOTH parties... Republicans and Democrats, there is no difference anymore... they all do only what they can to be re-elected, not what is best for the citizens!

*What is needed is for the Constitution to be amended to limit all Senators and Representatives to TWO terms in office like the President.
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*Oh, by the way,* *no big pension either, social security just like the rest of us. How do they rate bigger and better entitlements than the people THEY WORK FOR? WHICH IS US!!*

*Being a politician shouldn't be a person's life work* *but rather a call to public service then back to being an honest hard-working citizen.*

Politicians are no more than housekeepers and janitors... unfortunately they act like they own the building.

*PASS THIS ONE AROUND... **FOR A CHANGE...*
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I replied:
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Amen - but I would add that any politician who betrays his/ her oath of office by introducing an un-Constitutional bill, gets treated as a traitor in wartime. The gallows ought to be out front of the Capitol, and proceedings televised on C-Span.

Also, the free health care, exemption for the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security, and lifetime retirement pension after one term have to end. CONgresscritters need to be housed in a barracks equal to what boot camp enlistees get treated to, ditto food - and health care. They can stay healthy by walking to work, which should be a minimum of one mile from the barracks.

Air conditioning needs to be removed from the meeting rooms and the main halls in the Capitol, and CONgress needs to meet only during the hottest part of the summer for two months maximum. After that, they go home. The longer they are in session, with "creature comforts", the more likely they will be to enact something stupid.

The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution needs to be repealed. Ditto the 16th. Senators need to be appointed by governors, not popularly elected, and CONgress needs to go on a diet, not have a feeding tentacle in everyone's wallet.

An amendment requiring that ten laws be removed from the books for every new law passed - including budgets, which need to be truly balanced, would be nice, as would a requirement that every new bill come with a Constitutional justification for its' enactment. See the first line.

THAT constitutes a good start for ME.
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Then I realized that he had asked a question in that first line - so I sent him another email:
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Almost missed your comment at the top - it may take a revolution. I think the opening shots may have already been fired.
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Chuck Kuecker