URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Call Congress Now!
March 29, 2012 at 8:38 am in Blog, News by Tea Party Patriots 15 Comments
The House is scheduled to vote TODAY on one of the most conservative budgets ever offered. Rep. Jim Jordan and the Republican Study Committee have presented a plan that balances the budget in 5 YEARS without raising taxes. By contrast, Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan takes 30 years to balance the books and President Obama’s plan never does. Among other things, this budget establishes a moratorium on earmarks, repeals ObamaCare tax increases, and simplifies the current tax code.
If you think it should take less than three decades to get away from a sea of red ink, please call your Congressman and tell them to vote for H.Con.Res. 113 – Cut, Cap, and Balance: A Fiscal Year 2013 Budget.
Click Here for more information on the RSC Budget.
Also, please be aware of the Cooper-LaTourette Budget that would increase taxes by $2 Trillion! When you call your representative, tell them to vote no on this budget!
Click here to find your representative!
Thank you for your work, you are the heart and soul of the movement!
And this morning the Tea Party Patriots issued the following News Release:
Tea Party Patriots Support RSC Budget
Vote Scheduled on Serious Answer to Senate’s 3-Year Silence
The Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization, today announced that its activists across the country intend to support the “Cut, Cap and Balance” budget put forth by Rep. Jim Jordan and the Republican Study Committee as the best budget option under consideration in the Congress. The bill is schedule for a vote today in the House.
“Rep. Jordan and the RSC have presented a solid plan that balances the budget in five years without raising taxes,” said Jenny Beth Martin, Co-Founder and National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. “By contrast, the consistent failure by the Senate to produce any budget at all and the continuing failure of the President’s budget leadership provide clear reasons for supporting this budget alternative. TPP members across the country are getting behind this plan that establishes a moratorium on earmarks, repeals Obamacare tax increases and simplifies the current tax code.”
The RSC budget plans to reduce spending, reform entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and prevent any new taxes on Americans so they can create jobs and jump-start the economy, fulfilling the Tea Party Patriots principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets.
On Saturday, Tea Party Patriots held a Road to Repeal rally on Capitol Hill attended by activists and national speakers, including Herman Cain, from around the country to protest Obamacare. They held press conferences this week during oral arguments defending the Constitution against the law’s assault on the individual liberties it protects.
Crimes against humanity in the Communist Party of China (Chinese government) = + betrayed Jesus Christ, + destroy the earth!
Eat the people devil Chinese Communist Party’s long-term dictatorship Earth becomes no value!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2012 must be the eradication of eradication of the Communist Party of China
I think we need to do something about the communists withing our own country, especially the ones hiding in the Democrat Party under the guise of Progressives! Omarxist, the top of the current power structure in DC is devestating this country. There should be a law making Marxism of any form a crime, especially for those that have been elected under false pretences and are subverting the Constitution.
” There should be a law ” That’s rich.
These budgets do not mean a thing. Until someone has the courage to stand up to the Federal Reserve and tell them that Congress is taking their Constitutional mandate to coin and regulate the value of money, we eliminate certain departments of the Federal Government, i.e., the ATF, the DEA, the NEA, the DOE, Dept of Homeland Security, and clean up the Pentagon of warmongers and banker thugs, budgets are meaningless.
amen
Jim Jordan seems to be doing an excellent job. He has consistently stood by the Tea Party. His claims to leadership of Congress in the future will be legitimate because he had the courage to lead from the front since the beginning. The future belongs to us.
Dear Friends of the Tea Party,
Recently I sent a letter to my Congressmen, regarding Congressional Reform, (Copy below) He replied but completely ignored my request, that he start a petition (copy below). Instead he offered some info in a rather lengthy reply which he hoped would shut me up.
I have not yet replied because I do not know if what he wrote was truthful, although I suspect, like most snake oil salesmen, he wants me to buy his line and go back to work.
If you can shed some light on his statements, I’d be happy to write him back. However, as he did not offer to start a petition to Reform Congress, I’m sure he’s quite happy with current policies that allow congress to make their own salary raises, health insurance and retirement packages. Many of us Americans, are sick of their elite behavior and want it to stop. We must be able to get the following reforms into law or nothing will change.
Congress needs to know, we send them to Washington to serve the people, not stuff their pockets while bowing to corporate demands. Of course we will not be able to find any help from career politicians, we must find a, Mr. Smith, who will pledge reform, before he gets to Washington.
Please let me know how the Tea Party can help.CONGRESSIONAL REFORM ACT. . . . . .
Below you will find some new rules for CONGRESS, which we want on the Ballot in November so everyone gets a vote. If you can’t do this on your own, then we want a petition, because neither you nor congress is listening to us.
For to long both Democrats and Republicans have shown a complete disregard and disconnect from a mojority of Americans. It’s like we hired a fox to watch the chickens or a thief to watch our money. We find your Elitist behavior no longer acceptable and unless you are willing to do the right thing we will elect
someone who will represent us all fairly.
As a pepition, if this gets enough votes, and it will, then we know congress will change and must change from a congress for corporate special interest, to a congress for the people.
If we don’t get to vote on this, then we know that not one person in congress is working for the vast majority of the American people and nothing will change in Washington.
So Please pass it on to : Congress.org or your elected official. We know both sides are no longer interested in changing the game, unless we act. Corporate America and congress do not want to change a thing, their all quite happy with the system just the way it is.
If you’re happy with the way things are going, do nothing, but, if you are not happy, this is your chance to speak up.
This was Senator Crapo’s Reply:
Tea Party News
April 2, 2012
Tory von Wolfe
10880 Galloway Rd.
Middleton, ID 83644-5010
Dear Tory:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the pay and benefits for Members of Congress. There is currently no legislation in either the House of Representatives or the Senate titled the Congressional Reform Act. Nevertheless, I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond to the issues you have raised.
In today’s media environment, there are many opportunities for various entities to share their views and information. We all embrace the Internet as a crucial tool to help share information; however, it is, from time to time, also a conduit for unreliable or misleading information.
As you may know, an Internet rumor is claiming that Members of Congress receive extravagant pensions. The Internet rumor, in various versions, has been in circulation for some time and most likely stems over misunderstanding of the congressional benefit system. I appreciate the opportunity to clarify some of these issues.
Members of Congress elected first after 1983 receive pension benefits under the FERS plan, which is the Federal Employee Retirement System. It is available to all Members of Congress, as well as any other federal employee. In order to receive benefits, those who are part of the system must participate for a minimum of five years to be “vested.” The age and service requirements for retirement eligibility are determined by the plan under which a member is covered at the time of retirement, regardless of whether he or she has previous service covered under a different plan.
FERS is designed to supplement Social Security retirement benefits. If FERS retirees under age 62 retire with an unreduced pension after at least twenty years of service, they are eligible for a temporary “supplement” to their FERS plan to fill in until Social Security eligibility is reached. The supplement is estimated to equal future Social Security benefits accrued from congressional service. It is paid from the time of retirement to age 62, when Social Security payments may begin. The supplement is not payable if the retiree is employed and has earnings above a specified amount (same as Social Security).
Until 1984, there was a separate system available only to Members of Congress. Much of the publicity regarding extravagant pension benefits for Members of Congress involves those who are eligible for and still drawing from the previous system. The retirement system has been updated and Members of Congress who were elected first after 1983 receive the same benefits available to other federal employees, including participation in and paying into, Social Security. Additionally, like all other federal employee pension programs, congressional pensions do require contributions from participants.
I share concern over the recently-enacted health care reform measure. The public – as well as many lawmakers – adamantly opposed the health care reform – and with good reason. Rumors that Members of Congress sought to be exempt from requirements outlined in the healthcare reform bill are false. The healthcare reform law and minimum coverage requirement applies equally to all Americans, including Members of Congress. The health insurance plans available to Members of Congress are the same plans available to all federal employees.
Considerable attention in recent years has also been drawn to the issue of congressional salaries and annual pay adjustments. Many consider the annual pay adjustment to be a pay raise and the media frequently portrays it as such.
Congress is required by Article I, Section 6, of the Constitution to determine its own pay. A 1989 law provides for Members of Congress to receive the same pay adjustment as other government employees. Prior to that time, Members of Congress truly voted on their own pay increases. The annual pay adjustment provision removed that legislative possibility by providing Members of Congress with the same inflationary increase federal civilian employees and members of the Armed Services receive. These annual adjustments are based on Employment Cost Index, which is calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Nevertheless, Members of Congress were originally scheduled to receive a pay adjustment in January 2010 of 2.1 percent. However, Congress passed a provision with the Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act that prevents the pay adjustment for 2010. As such, Members of Congress received the same pay in 2010 as 2009. On April 22, 2010, the Senate passed legislation (S. 3244), with my support, that would prevent members from receiving a pay adjustment in 2011.
In regards to term limits, when the Constitution was originally ratified in 1787, it did not include any provisions that limited the number of terms for the President or Members of Congress. However, in 1951, the 22nd Amendment was ratified and established the current term limits for the President. Since that time it has often been debated that Members of Congress should also be subject to such term limits.
There are benefits to both sides of the argument. Proponents of term limits often claim it is an effective way to bring fresh ideas into the legislative process. Those opposed to term limits often cite the benefit of having experience when making difficult decisions. In 1995, when I was serving in the House of Representatives, Idahoans indicated that they supported term limits and I voted for House Joint Resolution 73, which would have implemented term limits in Congress. That bill ultimately failed in the House, but if Idahoans again decided that they wanted to have term limits, I would again support them.
Our nation is facing very troublesome times on many fronts. Idahoans from across the state overwhelmingly contact me to press for a smaller, less intrusive federal government. Please rest assured that I will continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to ensure confidence in the American public that the federal government serves the public interest and is a cost-effective trustee of taxpayer dollars.
Again, thank you for contacting me. Please feel free to contact me in the future on this or other matters of interest to you. For more information about the issues before the U.S. Senate as well as news releases, photos, and other items of interest, please visit my Senate website, http://crapo.senate.gov.
Sincerely,
Mike Crapo
United States Senator
MDC:SF
You’re on Your Own, Kids
Posted on Apr 12, 2012
AP/Jae C. Hong
4-year-old Nathan Hobbs, who lives in a homeless shelter with his mother, sits in a stroller with one dollar bills he received for his birthday pinned to his chest in Los Angeles. The ranks of the nation’s poor have swelled to a record 46.2 million — nearly 1 in 6 Americans, with little to no help from their government.
By Robert Scheer
Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? Let me give it a whirl from the perspective of one whose own unwed mother had several abortions before yours truly was permitted to emerge.
My arrival came during the U.S. economy’s previous great crash, back in 1936. My father, who was already supporting an earlier family with two teenage children, had every intention of providing well for me, but he was laid off that very day and informed my mother of the unhappy fact within moments of setting eyes on me in a Bronx hospital. My father held on to part-time jobs in garment industry sweatshops (where my mother, too, worked), but it would be four years before he had a full-time paycheck again. He stood by both families during that dark period, seizing every opportunity to work, mostly in government-sponsored employment. And yes, we lived in part on government welfare—or home relief, as it was then called. All of which made President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the New Deal he fashioned to save tens of millions of impoverished folks just like us throughout the country, objects of veneration.
So why am I bringing all this ancient history up now? Because I was dumbfounded by a headline Saturday in The New York Times that reminded me of how far we have gone wrong: “Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit.” And by “we” I mean not only the heartless Republicans who love the fetus and then shun the child but also the “progressives” who dare not use the word “liberal” because concern for the poor conflicts with the opportunism that defines their politics.
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in 1996 when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the “tough love” callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.
The ensuing wave of state-imposed eligibility restrictions was designed to replace the war on poverty with a war on welfare recipients, with the result that in this time of economic crisis the poor have nowhere to turn. It also allowed states to play in a meanness derby, cutting the welfare rolls and forcing many of the desperate to cross state lines to locales where they might survive. “My take on it was the states would push people off [the assistance lists] and not let them back on, and that’s just what they did,” said Peter B. Edelman, who resigned from the Clinton administration over this issue and who told the Times for the recent article, “It’s been even worse than I thought it would be.”
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Edelman, now a law professor at Georgetown University, was a close friend of the Clintons. His principled resignation was a rare exception to the cheerleading by Democrats who celebrated President Clinton’s betrayal of the poor as shrewd triangulation. Clinton himself had to be fully aware of the depth of that betrayal because he had governed one of the poorest states. In an interview I did with him for the Los Angeles Times when he was still the governor of Arkansas, he was very clear on two points concerning socially responsible welfare reform: It required federal standards, and it would cost more money because the well-being of children was at stake. “To do it, you need more money … for education, training, transportation, and child care.”
Calling the shots on spending for the most vulnerable since the Clinton revisions went into effect, the states have diverted funds for the poor to filling other holes in state budgets. Consequently, as the New York Times piece noted last week, “Just one in five poor children now receive cash aid, the lowest level in nearly 50 years.”
The response of the right-to-life Republicans has been typical—indifference to the fate of the fetus once it’s born. Paul Ryan, House budget leader and rumored to be Mitt Romney’s pick for vice president, judges the current welfare program “an unprecedented success,” and Romney himself wants to extend the welfare-cut model to “all these federal programs,” including Medicaid and food stamps.
During his campaign, Santorum, who on Tuesday dropped out as the standard-bearer for pro-life family values, turned to Clinton’s draconian welfare law as a source of deep spiritual guidance: “It didn’t just cut the rolls, but it saved lives” and granted the poor “something dependency doesn’t give: hope.”
Well, glory be, hope is on the rise. A recent and well-documented Indiana University study concludes that the number of Americans living beneath the poverty line has risen 27 percent during the recession, leaving 46 million former fetuses living large on a new hope diet.
I am going to make a wordpress blog on the dangers of Obama care. If anyone has a wordpress account would you subscribe to my blog when it’s up? This will help w/ traffic and spreading the message.
Also, is this the official tea part site, I’ve seen many.
I would like more information on this topic,pleasesend me any and allpertaining to this cause.Thank You Jacques Le Sesne
I am a Senior Citizen living on Social Security and finding it harder and harder to make it. While I am willing to forward emails, sign petitions and write to my congress and Senators, I cannot afford make any donations nor pay for organizations to fax letters for me. I have quit answering my phone except for people I know because I am just really aggravated with all the calls asking for money that I don’t have. I am the one in need of help and as far as I can see my future looks pretty scary and I pray God takes me before it gets any worse. I am not in a position to either acquire any more income nor support for myself. So, with God’s mercy, I hope that He won’t keep me around much longer. I look forward to the day I can be back with my husband, the love of my life.
So, I beg you please stop the phone calls asking for donations. I will not answer the calls. Instead, keep me in your prayers.
Sue B. O’Dea
God bless you Sue. I’m a Sr, too and I have contributed quite a lot of money to conservative causes. It’s disconcerting to contribute to one organization and then receive requests for money from several others. It’s a sorry fact of our political system that so much money is necessary in order to win even a state election and all of these good causes need money.
I say that you have done your share. You and I have lived in the America of Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan and we know where we came from. I spend more time than money talking up conservative principles with young people. They get so much bad information from their peers. I’ll leave you with my favorite quote by the greatest American of the past Century. And my best to you. Ron
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Ronald Reagan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-kwak/mitt-romney-budget_b_1430813.html
My name is garnet Irving am 48 years year old am a home owner and resident of 7439 miller avenue Upper Darby Pennsylvania witch is my primary residece, 2009 i was hospitalize for diabetis that look me out of work for sometime i fell behind with my mortage because of my ability to work less hours i struggle through 2010 and 2011 my payment is 772 per month and the rate of 6.15percent because of the hours i was work and the pay i recieved i have to save up for each month i sent my mortage servicer witch is pennylvania housing finance agency $1,000 and they sent it back to me, a representetive who i ask to get a modification sent out some document for me to sigh for the modification i sign and sent them all they recquired i tried to call like every day but they keep telling me to leave a voice mail i that i did everytime (SHeryll ) the last time i spoke to her she tells me to send bank statement and i did the next week the sherriff served me a foreclosure notice the during witch and waiting to here from the servicer three weeks ago i recieved a letter from the lawyer who represents the morgtage company that they went to court and got a judjement against my property now today they served a sale date on my home all am trying to do here is to keep my home if i loose it me and my daughter will be homeless i worked all my life to have a home keep out of trouble all my life am trying to keep my home is there anything you could do to help please help am desperate.