The title of the article, 'Washington is America's Biggest Threat' might better be changed to: 'Washington is Freedom's Biggest Threat.'

Now we all know that there can be no such thing as a little Socialism. Either America stamps it out or it will stamp out America.

This fits in with a recurring email I receive from nearly all my contacts periodically. There is some good in it, maybe part of an answer--but how to implement it? A Constitutional Convention is not the easiest thing to convene.

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 12/1/14. 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.

The problem as I see it is that privately every politician would agree with everything said in this article. They set up this system to maintain their own power and have no intentions of changing it. The only rumblings of change come from those trying to defeat an incumbent. Once in they do as they are told.

Houston, Washington, America, we have a problem. The emperor has no clothes.

Has our president finished going over the budget line by line yet as promised in his campaign? Did he ever say what he was going to do other than to go over it?

It's interesting how he ran his campaign on mostly conservative principles and promises, then when elected switched to liberal actions and results.

short, succinct, direct. post it on every bulletin board
and hope that it is read -- before November! -- j

A rant, indeed, but a true rant. A rant filled with venom. But if the venom is acted upon it can cure the disease. The shame of it is that it is a disease we've allowed to be given to us.
Every time a smart observer points out the truth, I flinch. The flinch represents many things; pain, frustration, and anger when the place I revered as a child, and visited with my children, has become the center of insidious evil.

having read mr. kleinfeld's bio, he seems to be an intelligent man and his article supports that. Ayn Rand for all intents and purposes wrote the same and so much more during her time. none in government would actually listen and the same holds true today for this fellow and all who write the same things. simply put Washington is the enemy within.

In, I believe, 1936, Reader's Digest ran an op-ed piece entitled "Let's Stop having Treasury Raids!" I discovered it during the mid-80s and was astonished at how it appeared to be straight from the day's headlines. Once again, I remain so.

No idea if the article is available online, and I no longer have a copy of the magazine. If I can find it I will post a link.

That's the first step of addiction recovery - no coincidence whatsoever. These people are drunk on power.

Shockingly accurate.