Posted on 02/17/2010 6:57:05 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush
How about STOP IMMIGRATION OF AMERICA-HATING PERSONS from palestine, Sudan & etc.
According to Congressional rules, they are allowed to assume an 8% growth rate from year to year. So they can increase spending by 8% and declare they haven’t increased spending. Never mind that we have never had 8% growth in a year. It’s all part of Washington’s definitions.
Nothing on abortion, illegals, or homosexual marriage?
But a fight for cspan...sigh
Yeah, I wish I had known about this earlier. There are a few like that I would have added, and a few I would have changed the wording on quite a bit.
Yikes, I had not heard that.
They’re missing one of the biggest problems: BORDER CONTROL/ILLEGALS.
how about STOP PAYING THE CONGRESS AND SENATE WITH FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS. senators and representatives will not be given federal salary or benefits. they are strictly banned from accepting any payment or gifts of any kind from lobbyists. if the state they represent wishes to pay them for their services they may do so but the salary can be no more than twice the poverty rate by federal guidelines. the states will also pay for adequate living accommodations for their representatives and senators.
how about a total moratorium (minimum 5 years) on ALL immigration to the U.S. ?
No man should be held as another mans slave.
How about de-unionizing American public education and returning it to the states?
If anyone is interested in a Contract w/ America list which could be turned into viable legislation they should contact the Heritage Foundation. It was mainly Heritage which provided the framework for the 1994 version.
Enacting legislation based on the principles of the 1994 Contract into law met w/ mixed success. IIRC, about 75% of the original Contract passed the House, about 50% passed the Senate, with about 30-40% actually being signed as law.
Those are just rough figures based on my memory from 15 years ago. But I would suggest again that if you want a legislative agenda rather than talking points or political theater go to the original source of policy experts.
Amen. That is one on the current list.
So has the Heritage Foundation constructed another list? Please provide a link. Thanks in advance.
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Those three you mentioned, most specifically the THIRD, I am glad to see omitted: homosexual marriage (same-sex marriage) is a LOSER issue for us, and will remain so in perpetuity—not so much because a good argument can’t be made for it, but because IT NEVER WILL. It will always be demagogued by its proponents and ALWAYS make us look bad for opposing it, and them good for wanting ‘to join us’ in the ‘sanctity’ of marriage. Hell, the tone-deafness of Conservatives on this issue is baffling AND disheartening.
They don’t even have the sense of humor and irony of my nephew who twice ran for Congress in Ohio as a classic Liberal Democrat, garnered a great deal of votes, and told an interviewer he was for gay marriage because they should be allowed ‘to be as miserable as the rest of us’-—(In the last five,six years, he’s lost at straight marriage TWICE, and knows whereof he speaks). If I were responsible for Conservative talking points, as soon as I saw that Obama was “ALSO” opposed to Gay Marriage, I would’ve found a way to undermine him because of that: the idea is that you don’t want to agree with a dreaded opponent like Obama on ANYTHING, and are willing to find ways to make him look bad about his entire set of beliefs-—apparently this was too taxing a possiblility for conservative brains, and we conceded this issue to the Left, who were only positioning themselves to curry favor with American Blacks. I won’t expound further on this issue, and then only if I get responses on it; then an actual dialogue can begin. As to the other two in your list , I am staunchly and seriously PRO LIFE, and am OPPOSED to illegal immigration, and believe that if ANY form of amnesty is to be ratified, it needs to be carefully controlled and monitored, and the REMITTANCES also exposed and either curtailed or discussed seriously as to the negative effects they have on our economy. This outflow of American dollars back to Mexico has been going on for decades, in one form or another, and take billions out of the American economy, while bolstering the moribund Mexican economy. These are just a tiny few of the salient issues regarding immigration: they MUST be laid open, “exposed”, as it were, if you want to get people on our side. Once they have the facts presented to them in a straightforward way, we’ll get them on our side. Shipping enormous numbers of Mexicans back to Mexico, and all the preliminary steps, and enormous expenses and social dislocation and allocation of LE resources needed to get that going, is just not feasible. I’d love to see a solution to this problem, but I’m not holding my breath.
BOTH sides seem to need to be polarized on it, to satisfy their ‘bases’.
Wonder how many D.C. hacks will find out in november what type of contract the people have in mind?.
I did some searches on their web site and have not seen a specific new Contract w/ America, but they do highlight a section on “Ten Transformational Initiatives” which may be useful to you.
I had minimal contact with Heritage back in the 1990s and do not know anyone over there now personally or proffessionally, but perhaps if you contacted them and requested their help they would provide something more constructive.
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