We at TfTL are equal opportunity term limiters.  We don’t just think one party or the other should be tossed out.  We firmly stick by our contention that federal office should not be a career (nor should politics be one in general).

But the health care reform debate and potential passage of a disastrous bill requires is to take sides.  A couple of weeks months ago, we presented our own health care reform plan.  This plan is designed to lower costs and increase access while maintaining if not improving quality.  We support this type of health care system reform.

What we do not support is a plan that will do none of the things it is supposed to do.  For this, we declare political war on the House of Representatives and Senate.  We have marching orders that will prevent an economic Pearl Harbor.  If the $2,400,000,000,000+ health care bill passes, it may be generation before we recover.

Your daily term limiting task is to get in touch with your senators and representatives and let them know that you support health care reform, but not any of the bills presently being discussed and will work to get the bill repealed.  Tell them that you do not support any cap and trade climate scheme.

Tell them that any treaty coming out of Copenhagen will be at odds with our Constitution and should not be approved.  Edit:  Thankfully, no treaty came out of Copenhagen!  But we’re not out of the woods, yet.

Tell them you will vote for their primary challenger in 2010 and will fight to have any legislation that limits our freedoms repealed.

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If you are a Republican: Contact your senator and representative and encourage them to start using the word repeal.  Tell them that you would ask them to repeal this bill after the 2010 elections.  The message needs to be sent that this type of bill will not stand.  Repeal is the word of the day.

If you are an Independent: Contact your senators and representative and tell them you do not support this bill which will reduce access, increase cost and destroy quality.  Encourage them with the same word that the Republicans are using:  repeal.  Let them know you will vote for candidates in 2010 who will repeal this disastrous bill.

If you are a Democrat: Contact your senators and representative and let them know that this bill does not represent the ideals of your party.  How can health care become more affordable if it’s taxed?  How can we cover everyone if the bill only covers 94% of the country?  How can quality go up if there are more people trying access the same number of doctors?  Why is Louisiana getting an extra $100,000,000 for Senator Landrieu’s vote? This bill will potentially destroy your party.

If you are a Liberal: Ask yourself “Is this about power or health care?”  Ask yourself “What government social program has cost what they said it would cost and did what they said it would do?”  We don’t think you’ll actually change your mind, but would encourage you to apply logic and reason, then go read the Constitution of the United States.

Today’s term limit task is to go on the offense.  This is war.

Here’s where you can find the contact information: http://www.congress.org/ or  http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/

This was originally posted in December of 2009.

Michigan Congressman John Dingell

REPUBLISHED 03/24/10: Added some interesting video.

John Dingell, has been in the House of Representatives since 1955 and is its longest serving member.   He’s one of the more liberal representatives.  But it’s his longevity that really makes him a stand out.  27 terms–longer than the intrepid Senator Robert Byrd.

Do Not Re-Elect Representative John Dingell

• Office: Representative
• State: MI
• District: 15th
• Seniority: 1
• Party: Democrat
• Elected to Current Office: 1955
• Terms as Representative: 27

Links (will open new window):

• Official Web Site
• Wikipedia Entry
• Google Search Results

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’

Federalist No. 33

With 37 states planning to sue the federal government about the unfunded mandates in the recently passed health care bill there are enough.

Enough to call a constitutional convention. It only takes 34.

Article 5:

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

34 states can call a constitutional convention.

It’ll take 38 states to ratify it, but think of the debate.  Think of ability for the people to really express their wishes.

34 states to call a constitutional convention to:

• Repeal the 17th Amendment
• Repeal the 16th Amendment
• Forbid unfunded mandates
• Establish federal term limits for the House of Representatives and the Senate (less necessary in the Senate with the repeal of the 17th Amendment).
• Abolish the Federal Reserve

The magic number is 34.  No need to rely on federal courts.  We have what we need already in the Constitution already.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party… She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red ..

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems..

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper and has been a journalist for 49 years.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid.

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom…’

When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge=2 0Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the heck happened? Can you spell ‘politicians?