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The Beginnings of a New Constitutional Amendment
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only
3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it.
That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones,
etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to
become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of 12 people
on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the
message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay
when they are out of office.
3. 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.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.
5. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the
same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American
people.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.
Congressmen 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.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take
three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it
is time.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it on.
If not, just delete and I am sorry to waste your time.
You are one of my 20+. Please keep it going.
Regards,
Daniel L. Engelmann
Email: dengelma@comcast.net
Mobil: 219-794-4476
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
The indictment of the vernacular
That Crazy Lady commented: ' It's not the fault of language itself though. It's more related to introspection and critical thinking.'
Yes, but the USE, aka the vernacular interpretation, I indict as the culprit. The interpretation becomes the tool of (mindless to submissive) thought and that thought's linguistic syntax. The words and terms we choose for use as our thoughts affect not only our spoken communications, but our subconscious command imperatives, which are the triggers for our more powerful emotional predispositions. The 'Book of St. John' made a great point by opening with the verse, "In the beginning was the word". Words determine what and HOW we think. Just like a contaminated, corrupted, or infected media culture; or as the maxim for computer programming states, 'Junk in, junk out'. The highly influential commercial, as well as social mores and traditions 'program' the boundary forms and limits of the interpretation. 'American Exceptionalism', 'Manifest Destiny', 'special relationship'-all a part of the 'big lie' which Orwell, Huxley wrote about and the Nazis showed its political and cultural application. Compound these big lies with the little fallacies of authority, status, and title abuse in personal relations, let alone institutional and secular settings, and there you have a population with a contaminated and corrupted language base that they mindlessly to gluttonously consume to the communication indolencies and morbidities of thought and (lack of) expression (and introspection) we have both noted.
Yes, but the USE, aka the vernacular interpretation, I indict as the culprit. The interpretation becomes the tool of (mindless to submissive) thought and that thought's linguistic syntax. The words and terms we choose for use as our thoughts affect not only our spoken communications, but our subconscious command imperatives, which are the triggers for our more powerful emotional predispositions. The 'Book of St. John' made a great point by opening with the verse, "In the beginning was the word". Words determine what and HOW we think. Just like a contaminated, corrupted, or infected media culture; or as the maxim for computer programming states, 'Junk in, junk out'. The highly influential commercial, as well as social mores and traditions 'program' the boundary forms and limits of the interpretation. 'American Exceptionalism', 'Manifest Destiny', 'special relationship'-all a part of the 'big lie' which Orwell, Huxley wrote about and the Nazis showed its political and cultural application. Compound these big lies with the little fallacies of authority, status, and title abuse in personal relations, let alone institutional and secular settings, and there you have a population with a contaminated and corrupted language base that they mindlessly to gluttonously consume to the communication indolencies and morbidities of thought and (lack of) expression (and introspection) we have both noted.
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