The American People’s TO DO List

by American Reform Party posted on Friday, July 30, 2010

1.         Favors in exchange for votes on legislation must be stopped. The public looks at this practice as “buying votes” and is one reason why we, the public, think our government is so corrupt and dishonest. Tit for Tat is CRAP. Ban this practice in both the Senate and House.

2.         “EARMARKS”. If a Senator or Congressman has a project he would like to see get funded, then be honest about it. Come up with a spending bill just for that project. If it is a worth while project it will pass. If not, refer the project to the State in which the project is located and let them get funding for it. We don’t need any more John Murtha airports! If all the earmarks from 2000 till now were added up, I’m sure that total would more than cover the cost of new computer systems for every major airport in the U.S.

3.         Piggybacked Bills. This practice really gets the public irritated, miffed, up-in-arms, irate, fuming, and just plain MAD. If a bill cannot stand on its own and get passed, don’t stuff it into another just so it can get passed. If it can’t pass on its own, it wasn’t a good bill to begin with.

4.         Illegal immigration. This is a no brainer. No amnesty, no shortcut to citizenship, no anchor babies, no free medical, no welfare, no free education, no social security. Go back home and come here legally. If you show up again without proper documentation, you’re banned for life and will never be allowed to enter the country legally. Finish the fence from California to Texas and put the U.S. Military on it. It’s part of their job anyway. Twice in our history we have had mass deportation of all illegal aliens in the country and each time it was in the 20^th century. I see no reason why it cannot be done again. All you need is the willpower. And think about this: If our nation suffers another 9-11 type attack and it turns out they came here illegally, whose neck is going to be on the chopping block because they did not secure the borders? Cheap labor for Republicans and more voters for Democrat are an appalling trade off for our national security.

5.         Create an “Office of Constitutional Compliance”, in the House and Senate that has one job and one job only. That job is to make sure every bill passed by either house is in compliance with the Constitution. This has been needed for over four decades and it is about time it gets put into practice. These offices MUST be non partisan to be effective.

6.         Amend the Constitution so that no bill can reach either the House or Senate floor unless it has been written in its entirety and read by every member. This business of writing just the title of the bill and then writing the rest of it after it has been passed MUST stop. We are tired of you people passing bills that are incomplete and/or have no idea what’s in them.

7.         Ban the use of “Czars” or any other such position that is not authorized by the Constitution. These positions circumvent the Constitution and upset the balance of power as it was set forth by our Constitution.

8.         Audit the Fed.  No explanation is needed here. The Fed is not above the law and we need to find out exactly how much money the people of this country are on the hook for.

9.         DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT agree to any U.N. Treaty that would deprive any U.S. Citizen of their 2^nd Amendment rights. Do not pass any legislation that would infringe on those rights either. We need to be more like the Swiss when it comes to the 2^nd Amendment.

Dr. Suzanna Hupp of Texas had it right during her testimony before a congressional hearing when she said; “The Second Amendment is not about hunting, it’s about all of us (meaning the people) protecting our selves from all of you” (meaning politicians). Read the Federalist Papers. There are currently over 20,000 gun laws on the books, we don’t need any more.

10.       Stop exempting Congress from the bills it passes. If  a law is good enough for us to live under, then it’s good enough for you as well. You people in Washington are not any better than we are. And in fact, some of you could really use an image makeover. This should be an Amendment to the Constitution.

11.       Stop spending money WE the people you represent, DO NOT HAVE. A national debt of $130 Trillion (funded, unfunded, plus future liabilities) is appalling.  Just stop spending like a drunken sailor. Make sure every dollar spent is well spent and mandated by the Constitution. Do not throw our money down a rat hole.

12.       Amend the Constitution so that any person who runs for President, Senator, or House Member must provide proof of U.S. citizenship when filing for elections. Education and Military records (when applicable) must also be made public. We must know who we are potentially voting for and what their qualifications are. I’m sure that had this been the law of the land prior to 2008, Obama never would have been elected.

13.       Repeal the 1995 Community Reinvestment Act signed into law by then president Bill Clinton. This bill created the biggest housing bubble we have ever seen. It is also the reason why the housing market collapsed, why the banking sector collapsed, and is why we have lost so much money with Fannie and Freddie. I know this is true because I have researched it. To leave this bill intact would leave the door open for all this to happen again in the future and we don’t need that to happen again, ever!

14.       The repeal of the Glass Steagall Act has given Wall Street too much control over community banking. Ask yourself this question; How many community banks went under because they were joined at the hip to an investment bank? Investment banks and community banks need to be separated as they once were. Repeal Gramm-Leach-Bliley November 12, 1999.

I find it interesting that the Community Reinvestment Act 1995 and the repeal of  the Glass Steagall Act 1999 were both during the Clinton Administration. Wow, that’s freaky…..

15.       Starting in 2012, we need at least a 20 year Moratorium on all Immigration. When it starts up again in 2032, it should be only half of what we are currently accepting. We need this brake in order to weed out all the undesirables that have entered the country since the 1980s. We really do need to slow down the growth rate of the nations population or we will run out of water and not be able to feed our selves.

16.       Amend the Constitution to make English the official language of the United States. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written in English, so why not make it official. When this is done, stop government printing in other languages. All government printing needs to be in English only. As long as we keep printing documents in foreign languages, foreigners who live here will have no incentive to learn English and that destroys the necessity for assimilation as it has been doing for the last 60+ years.

17        Eliminate any and all Tenure for Teachers and Professors at all educational institutions public and private. Too many bad teachers and professors are still teaching because we can’t get rid of them. New York is a prime example. This would make them accountable for what and how they teach.

18        Attach School funding to the student and let the parents choose the school they want their child to attend. School Vouchers are the only sure way the U.S. will ever get back to the top of the Math, Science, and History lists. In the last 20 years we have thrown untold fortunes into our education systems and the results have been extremely disappointing. It’s time to change that. I have come to the conclusion money is not the problem. The problem is what and how the teacher teaches. Getting rid of teacher’s unions might be necessary as well.

In most of these comments we recommend an amendment to the Constitution and have good reason for that. If these are just passed as a matter of law, you people will find ways around them. You have shown us in the past that this is exactly what you would do. That would make the past 234 years an exercise in futility. We live in the freest, most prosperous, and most powerful nation in the history of mankind. We owe all of this to the Constitution, those who gave it to us, our desire to live in freedom and defend it against all who would destroy it. Over the past 120 years there have been those who have attacked the Constitution and tried to destroy it by trying to transform it into what they call a living, breathing, document that must evolve. Again we find our selves with the need to rise up and defend the Constitution against those who seek global domination by a single ideology. In a time when most of the world is dumping socialist leaning governments, we are on the verge of being saddled with one. Acting on this “To Do List” may not stop the attacks completely, but they will definitely let the attackers know they are in for one hell of a fight……..

Please get this into the hands of as many Tea Party Organizations as possible. Add any good ideas if you have any. We need as many as we can get…………         

This list was submitted by James W. Lowder.                                                                             

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