[narses]

Your thoughts and comments please?

[roaddog727]

Works for me.

I’m on board with that.

[rwh]

Good, but politicians don’t care. Hell, they don’t follow the first contract to America to limit government also known as the Constitution.

[Falconspeed]

11. Make a budget;

12. Show initiative;

13. Limit health care costs;

14. Replace the UN;

15. Limit Congressional terms;

16. Defend free enterprise; and most importantly,

17. Follow the Declaration of Independence.

[tacticalogic]

Overturn Wickard v Filburn.

[granite]

One way or another.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Good ideas...and if adopted the GOP would retake Congress (at least the house) by 2010 and the White House by 2012

[Reagan Man]

I agree with you on 7 of the 10.

Term limits are unconstitutional.

I’m not clear on what you mean in #5 and #6. The federal education department should be abolished. Period.

[smokingfrog]

I would call it ‘A Contract With the American Citizen.’

[marsh2]

Eliminate environmental and other regulations that substantially take the exclusive use of private property and direct it toward use for a public purpose or benefit without just compensation.

[randita]

I like some ideas on this site:

http://www.americanroadmap.org/

[Amendment10]

I appreciate the points made in the OP. However, I will point out that the existing contract to limit government, the wrongly ignored federal Constitution, which the Founders made to intentionally limit the powers of the federal government, would practically shut down the federal government if the people would demand that DC politicians respect it.

[kingu]

Can we stick in, near the top, that federal employees are forbidden to get any salaries or benefits that exceed that given to an equivalent ranked soldier?

[Salvation]

Eliminate the federal and state funding of abortion.

[Arthur McGowan]

Regarding #5 and #6: WHAT federal funding of “education”? Show me where in the Constitution the people delegated to the federal government any authority to do ANYTHING regarding “education.”

Change #5 to “Eliminate all federal activities, policies, and spending with respect to education.”

Then eliminate #6.

[Salvation]

Eliminate the federal and state funding of embronic stem cell reasearch and cloning.

[Salvation]

Eliminate the federal and state funding of embryonic stem cell reasearch and cloning.

[narses]

Your thoughts?

[TN4Liberty]

1 - Limit Members of Congress to Social Security and Medicare for their retirement benefits

Populist and meaningless, accomplishing nothing

2 - Limit Members of Congress to Medicare for health care benefits while serving

Ditto

3 - Limit Members of Congress to three terms in each House, cumulative

Works for me

4 - Limit total Federal taxes per individual to no more than 15% of gross income

Arbitrary, but might worl except they would play with the definition of “gross income”

5 - Limit Federal rules on education to funding only.

Why fund it? Feds tweak education under the guise of civil rights. Not sure how this would address that.

6 - Make the Federal education funding portable at the choice of the parent/guardian.

Don’t fund it federally

7 - Limit access to our border to legal immigrants and citizens only.

As in enforce current laws?

8 - Limit contributions to Federal Political campaigns to Natural Citizens only.

As in enforce current laws?

9 - Limit Federal Spending to a balanced budget outside of wartime.

Populist, and leading to lots of new definitions, but a worthy objective

10 - Limit Lawyers negative impact on society with meaningful tort and legal reform.

One man’s meaningful suit is another man’s frivolous lawsuit.

Just my thoughts... It’s good to get a dialog started though.

[SQUID]

1) Ban foreign lobby groups from Congress. That's what the Executive branch is for.
2) Construct new ethics laws that prevent self above country people from going into government, like Dianne Feinstein.
3) Ban from public office of any kind people like Feinstein who have personally benefited from being on committees that appropriate funding and contracts to their husbands, wives, sons, sisters and the like.
4) Enact laws that force Congress to actually attend a number of votes and meetings.
5) Increase the working days of Congress.
6) Stop voting on idiotic things like congratulating the Indianapolis Colts for their Super Bowl win.
7) BAN taking money of any kind from multinational corporation.
8) Break apart the media ownership of stations, magazines etc etc. by one entity. Rupert that means you.
I have many more. How's that for adding some real reform that millions of people would go for in a heart beat?