Who Really Employs Your U.S. House Representatives and U.S. Senators ? By Nelson “Skp” Foley National Committee Chairman, Reorganized under the Charter and By-Laws January 2, 2008 The United States of America, Inc, is the actual entity which employs your congress members and senators. Look it up if you don’t believe what I just said. They are the equivalent of the board of directors of a major corporation to which the actual territory federal law applies to is the US government owned territories and Washington D.C. That’s right; the state you live in is NOT a territory. How do the laws which the federal government creates get into the back yards of each and every one of us? It is the states, your state in particular and my state in particular who elect politicians who don’t have enough money coming out of the citizens' pocketbooks to spend on their pet projects. Hence, those elected officials take federal handouts with wreckless abandon while the always willing and enabling press also ignores them while the people unknowingly become bonded as well as financially obligated to sensless Washington legislation. As a result we suddenly discover our schools are forced to take time away from basic education in order to fulfill some odd ball special agenda thrust upon the local schools and in doing so reduce the time for teaching (by law if you think about it) in order to keep that Washington D.C. spicket running. And who do we have to blame for this? Oh, yes. Our own Congress Critters in both houses. Why do we not look to the causes of this problem rather than just hoping that our vote works? Do we expect someone to come to our rescue and actually represent the interests of the people of any given state? Year after year we buy into the excuses and deflections involved in trying to find the reasons these anti-constitutional and anti-citizen acts continue unabated ! The answer is actually pretty straight forward. The Congress Critters don’t work you or me or your neighbor. They work for a corporation that is in itself a special interest and they have the power to go after each and every one of us collectively and individually. Specifically, they have the ability to force you and your neighbors pay for it through the collection of taxes. So we aren’t really electing a peoples' representative but actually voting every two years or every 6 years to elect a member to a corporate board of directors in which we have no actual stock.The Congress Critters are paid by a corporation and actually work for a corporation and not for us. These corporate board members have it very good. They divvy up the “spoils” of the corporation to those who support them in the highest fashion, certainly more than the people can collectively do. They set the rules on how money is spent and have effectively through their machinations limited competition to only two perspectives which they call parties. They don’t offer real competition. Competition would mean a certain amount of accountability if there were a third competing force and if you further think about it. In fact there has been only one attempt at entering the arena as a third competitior. That is the Reform Party of the United States. That is the only one who ever broke away. In looking at the other third parties, they are so secular, so limited, so controlled that they cannot hope to attain a competitive level. The Reform Party could and did not only once but twice. So how do you start to reign in your congress critter in order to make them more accountable to the people of your state rather than to the corporation they are elected to serve? It to is rather easy. THE SOLUTION There are 29 states in the union that allow the right of a peoples petition in order to affect public policy. These states have a direct people’s mechanism in order to gather signatures, place laws on the ballot for people to vote on and have it become law if the majority of the state population votes for it and on the opposite, an effective way to weed out special interest not in the best interest of the people by not voting a majority for the proposed law. There are 31 states that do not allow citizen participation in their legislative process and you know who you are. SOLUTION 1 is to start lobbying your state representatives and candidates to support the right to petition in your own state. If this were done, and the states increased to 37 states, the people could actually change federal policy by voting down or submitting legislation designed to help the people rather than the corporation. It’s not going to be easy but it is possible and it can be done. SOLUTION 2 is to for the state who already have the right to petition, there should be a 3 part referendum placed on each and every ballot for the people to vote on and it is a 2 part solution. A. The first section of the petition is to have the state pay the salaries of the congress critters whom they supposedly represent. This means that they congressional critters won’t be getting any of the perks unless they are supplied by the state itself with the input of the people. The “perks” could include retirement with the addendum that if convicted of a capital crime on either state or federal level, they will lose their retirement, their health and get to live off social security ust like the rest of us. B. The second section will be dealing with their accountability. Have any of you seen much of your elected official in order to question them or do you find out your congressional critter actually showed up yesterday and is already gone back to Washington, thus effectively avoiding any embarrassing questions and still getting a press headline. C. For every law passed by a congress critter, there are hundreds that don’t get above the radar and since the press is owned or at minimum controlled by the elite, these laws don’t even see the light of day and none of us know we just got hammered again. It should be required by law that each and every federally elected official be yanked back to their home state at least once a year and become a witness with the state legislature grilling hem on why they voted this way or why they voted that way or why, when knowing of an unconstitutional action, did they still continue to support the action. If they don’t should they are immediately removed by state law as qualified to represent their state on the national level. This may sound different than any solutions you may have ever discussed but this the reform at its best and this is what the Reform Party is all about. Effecting change with a commonsense approach. |