[Ask the Gulch] People complain but in 200 plus years and more have never thought it important enough to amend the Constitution on a variety of subjects. What's your favorite candidate?
Mylist would start by replacing people with citizens for census purposes followed by putting the old versions in the back and showing the amended version in the front. That way northern democrats would not have to keep apologizing for the 3/5ths rule. I might also like to see a mandatory first page to all congressional bills. Title, One paragraph mission statement or statement of intent and extent. Next Constitutional Cite to check validity. Estimated Cost and finally Source of Funding. Two other add ons might be if a dollar is taken from A to fund B then how does that affect C since A no longer has a dollar to spend in their store? the crowining touch would be denying anything which did not fit the description in the Mission Statement.
My last submission is initiative, referendum and recall for all States specifically including State Delegates to the US Congress.
Your turn!
My last submission is initiative, referendum and recall for all States specifically including State Delegates to the US Congress.
Your turn!
Now all of that and ten dollars will get you a cup of coffee. What may make points is anyone asks one of the fatal attacks. In yourown probably going to use it myself today or tomorrow. "Ah I see you are one of those who against the Constitution and pro-fascist better yet pro left wing fascist. otherwise you wouldn't have asked such a question. Then keep punching them with embarrassing but witty when possible follow ups Whatever they go after figure out their weak spot. if it's taxes ask how much they earn and how much they paid. etc. This works best when it's being monitored by other reporters or forms of media.
Sample. OK City Bomb. the plans came from a government manual. the manual was declassified by one of our Presidents I attended a gun show and the press looking to see if such manuals were for sale were kept out. Pick up a copy and walked out side. Oh iyou want to know about that book. Follow the money. See who profits. how do you mean? look inside the front cover it's plainly printed for all to see. US Government Printing Office. gee how did tghat happen. etc. etc. etc. the interview was neveer prnted nor televised. it was their President. You don't have to make them look stupid. That's normal. You just have to make them look stupid in front of a camera. They eat their own young.
May not get you elected but it will make you feel much much better.
the other thing to remember is when someone tapes you it's also permission to tape them. You don't have to ask.at that point. Not even if it's on or off the record. If they go first. Hello this call is being recorded for quality control purposes....that's all it takes. People get really stupid over the phone they think their nameless, faceless and safe.
That Little Black Book episode? Another papeer made a story about the story that was suppressed. Then it sort of died.
The book used to cost $4.95 Who knows how much money the US Government Printing Office made on that one title alone.
Mama Gumps wood shed is a place they like to avoid but as Nancy Pelosillyni routinely finds out. Her fault her pain our gain..
They may outnumber us but nobody likes to be made to look stupid they tend to take it out on the nearest most visible target. Especially right before election day.
And the MSM would treat me like a dog treats a chew-toy...
Gulchers seem to keep considering themselves (or us) as typical, average and sensible.
Many of us may be sensible, but looking across the US electorate, I think it's incredibly stupid to even try to consider US as 'typical or average.'
We are hopelessly outnumbered by 'the rest of them.'
A Constitutional Amendment to abolish, in total, all residential property taxation - on a nationwide basis (i.e., overruling the objections of States - feedback welcomed from Constitutional law buffs on this point,) as a human rights violation.
Here's something to think about:
Not one person in the United States of America, including you, owns his home. Not one. You may have paid for a home, you may have signed paperwork which says you are a home owner, but you do not own your home.
If you must pay someone else on a regular basis for the privilege of using some piece of property, whether it's a house or a car or a sofa or a roto-tiller, on pain of losing that privilege if you refuse to pay, then you are not an owner. You are a renter.
'See what I'm getting at here? So why have we tolerated the intolerable for so long?
The entire concept of residential property taxation is a negation of the right to home ownership at its root - it's government exercising brute force to designate itself, not you, as the de facto "owner," in perpetuity, of the home you have paid for - to which landed nobility you must either maintain rent payments or get thrown out onto the street. In a direct sense, residential property taxation is the relegation of the American individual to serfdom.
We must ask ourselves and the rest of the American people to step back, take a look at the militant injustice of property taxation, and question not only why we put up with it, but why we allowed an imposition so thoroughly alien to human rights to be initiated in the first place. Residential property taxation must be abolished, in total - with an eye toward the eventual abolition of all property taxation, residential, commercial or otherwise. If State and Local governments have to find ways to end their profligate spending when this "revenue stream" is removed, tough. Our right to the homes we have purchased is something we never should have surrendered, and must take back, by reason, by ethics, by the most fundamental principles of human rights.
This would also serve to drive a nice big stake through the heart of the "green" campaign to destroy the concept of individually-owned rural properties or even of individual family homes, and to herd us into retro-Stalinist urban anthills - the paradigm that goes variously as "Smart Growth," "Sustainable _ [insert anything here] _," "Agenda 21," etc.
Malta, Lichtenstein, Croatia, Thailand, Monaco, Fiji, the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Israel, Dubai, and Bahrain are just a few of the countries where there is no residential property taxation at all, or at most a one-time tax on purchase or sale of a residence but no perpetual, annual tax on property. The United States of America, once the leader of the free world, has a less-just tax policy than Croatia? Than Malta? Than Dubai? America should be leading the way by example - in abolishing the barbaric anachronism of residential property taxation entirely, as a new human rights paradigm for the entire world. We must fight to make that abolition a reality, and a Constitutional Amendment may be the best way to get it done.
A close second - though only after sweeping legislative action to create the condition it presupposes - would be an Amendment to bar government from "owning" any of the people's land other than that situated beneath legitimate government buildings and facilities. The legislative action in question would be: the comprehensive sell-off of all current government land holdings (or "designations" as "national monuments" or "wildlife refuges" or "ocean preserves" or "wetlands" or "scenic baubles" or "stuff we greens like lots and lots and you filthy humans will not be allowed to touch," etc.) that do not fit the description of such legitimate facilities. I would even argue for the divestiture of the National Park system to private organizations and/or individuals.
The government has no business confiscating, holding or barring use of land which properly belongs to individuals.
The method of this divestiture could be hammered out as a separate issue - maybe a new Homestead Act, Land Rush, land auction, whatever - with the proceeds going toward defraying government debt. Just so the land is no longer under the "ownership" or control of government at any level, directly or indirectly. Land that is unclaimed by private entities should be left as unclaimed wilderness, open to the future claims of whatever individuals may eventually want to homestead it.
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Blame MS for putting out crappy products? No, blame consumers for buying them. Blame Apple for charging 'too much more' for their offerings....
Remember, if there are 'thousands or tens of thousands of Apps available,' you can bet that virtually all of them are shit.
If there were any Really Good ones, they'd own the market. Recall the number of automobile manufacturers about a century ago... tons of them. Today: quite a few, but just a few "majors." All the rest are niches. Ford/GM/Toyota versus what? Bugatti?
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THAT would cut down a lot of 'em!
Sunset provisions for all bills, based on review and milestones. No criteria for success?? => No bill.
All bills must include hyperlinks to the EXACT references they change or refer to.
For starters.
No amendments or alterations, period. If alterations or amendments are needed they must take the form of a new bill. Tacking on or squirreling in is as shameful as baseline budgeting.
The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese IF the rats are in the trap.
Article one section two (1) refers to selection of Representatives every two years by the people of the State. Section (3) refers to persons.14th amendment continues to use the word persons er or people for purposes of setting the number of districts in the House of Representatives.
In each of the foregoing it called for a ten year enumeration to determine the number of districts e.g the census. That is it's only legally stated purpose. Counting toilet seats or deciding how to divvy up the pork is not mentioned.
Article II refering to eligibility of President refers to citizens.
South Central Los Angeles a gerrmandered district is perhaps the most famous for representing non-citizens and coincidentally ensure the bank accounts of Representative Maxine Waters.
It would take a Consitutional Amendment to make the change something ignored by the citizens for 230 years.
It is already used to enumerate citizens versus non-citizens by the information contained in the first few lines. Even that is not required and is not used to apportion Representative Districts but the whole number of people or persons regardless of citizenship, illegal or legal alien status or visiting Disneyland.
The court would have to declare one of the first paragraphs of the Constitution as unconstitutional on their own OR demand an amendment procedure. I am a bit suspect of the purpose given ACLU and Huffington are involved... When you smell rats there are usually rats to be found and the cheese is missing.
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