“The citizenry called, wrote, or e-mailed their Congressional representatives and the vast majority of them (well over 90% in some states) were dead against the bailout. You, the men and women elected to represent the people, did not listen to us. Instead, you committed $700 billion of our money to carry out a bail out of the very institutions that were responsible for the financial calamity – and with little transparency. Instead of carrying out the will of the people, you squandered even more of our money for the benefit of the rich and influential. Now, in converting Fannie and Freddie to government sponsored entities, you have taken on an additional $6 trillion in risk at our expense – and you have kept the number off the books to fool us into thinking that the risk is minimal.

“You are engaged in two disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and starting to rattle your sabers for a third in Iran. There has never been such a great divide between the government’s strategy and the will of the people, because the majority of the American people want none of these wars. Those who are in favor of our military actions are led to those conclusions by a profusion of media insertions. Therefore, because you have not been used our collective wealth wisely, we have decided to temporarily suspend supporting government projects with our money until you can properly convince the populace that you will once again serve our interests.”

“You have made us feel helpless and disenfranchised. We believe that nothing we say or do will stay your selfish plans for our country. There is no democratic way to require the government to represent the public – because our democracy has been hijacked by corporate and special interests. We cannot find political candidates in the Democratic and Republican parties who are sympathetic enough with our cause to buck the political system. As a matter of fact, the political system weeds out most of those who might sincerely wish to serve the people.

“The government controls all the weapons systems and wields unbelievable military power, but it is our money that drives your strategic plan. Many corporations and rich people do not pay their fair share of taxes – but the common people do. Therefore, until you begin to act in our interests, we will be temporarily withholding financial support from this government. Accordingly, we will cease making Federal Income Tax quarterly payments, reduce our tax withholding to the absolute bare minimum and, if you have not responded to the general satisfaction of the people by April 15, 2011, we will consider extending the Taxpayer Protest and completely stop paying taxes until you change your ways and begin to represent us. Our actions to disrupt your flow of funds will probably force the government to downsize, and that is likely in the best interest of the American people – because most government agencies serve us either poorly or not at all.”

Sooner or later, government representatives will approach the leaders of the movement and ask what we want. Here is a broad list of demands from which we will likely derive a final list:

• Congress to follow the U.S. Constitution to the letter.
• The Health Reform Act to be amended to provide a public option, available to all citizens as an alternative to private health insurance.
• End the lobbying system. Congress to gain information about potential laws from conducting research – not by listening to organizations that have an axe to grind.
• By constitutional amendment, end the electoral college for national elections. Winners will be those who get the most citizen votes.
• No electronic balloting. Paper only. We fear that it is too easy for politicians to steal votes by hacking the electronic voting systems.
• Corporations to no longer have the same rights as U.S. individual citizens. Why? Because corporations have no moral sense, no sense of shame. They are not living, breathing organisms and therefore on a lower level than U.S. citizens. They need to be second-class citizens with fewer rights.
• Recent Supreme Court ruling allowing for unlimited campaign contributions and multi-million-dollar media blasts will be nullified by legislation or amendment to the Constitution. It was bad law, and the Supreme Court over-reached when expressing its opinion.
• Corporations to be subject to stricter standards for ethics and morality.
• Corporations to be barred from lobbying or funding industry associations for the purpose of influencing Congress.
• All state and national election races are to be funded by public funds – and no corporation or special interest group may directly or indirectly provide financial support for any candidate.
• Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives; and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.
• Any member of Congress who votes for a state of war must suffer all of his/her children (18 years old or older) to be immediately inducted into the U.S. Army and (after two months of basic training and two months of advanced training) be sent to the front lines as a combat soldier.
• Return of all bailouts to the Federal Treasury.
• No more bailouts – whether companies already on the dole, such as Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, etc., or other companies or entities. Companies in all industries will be allowed to succeed or fail on their own efforts – with no financial help from the government.
• End of war in Iraq. Now. The best way to support our troops is to remove them from harm’s way.
• End of war in Afghanistan. Now.
• End of saber-rattling with Iran. Now.
• Immediate repeal of the Patriot Act. Now.
• Cancellation of plans for the Amero – North American Currency.
• 50% reduction in D.O.D. budgets – both black and white.
• 50% reduction in military bases – from 727 to 365.
• Term Limits for all U.S. Senators and Members of the House – two terms maximum for every member of the house and Senate. No longer will we suffer members of Congress who remain in office for decades.
• No member of Congress may work for a public corporation or industry trade association for a period of five years after the end of their last term.
• Once a former member of Congress takes a job in the civilian world, that individual may never again work for the Federal government.
• All legislation to be drafted in plain English and summarized for preview by the people before such legislation is passed.
• One law, one topic. From now on, each and every law passed will deal with one, and only one subject. No more pork. No more stuffing laws with hundreds of earmarks and other special-interest appropriations.
• All. U.S. Agencies to be zero-based. Agency Directors must relate to the public how their agency has been successful in serving the citizenry in the prior year and justify their continued existence on an annual basis.
• The Federal Reserve to be abolished. Now. Jefferson and other presidents have warned about the risks associated with a central banking system. It’s time to act on their advice.
• All tax protestors are to be granted amnesty by IRS and suffer no penalties or interest charges. Said taxpayers will resume payment of taxes upon the successful resolution of the current conflict between the government and the people.
• These agencies and departments to be placed on the endangered species list and threatened with extinction unless they downsize substantially and improve citizen satisfaction at the same time.

o SEC (Madoff)
o Dept of the Interior (BP Oil Spill)
o FEMA (Katrina)
o Dept of Education (U.S. education one of the worst)
o Dept of Energy (Had 30 years to work on the oil issue.)
o EPA (A bureaucratic organization that needs revamping.)
o FCC (serves only large corporations, not the people)
o Homeland Security – It bleeds money and does little to actually protect the American people – other than confiscating shampoo in airports.
o INS (a bureaucratic nightmare that needs reorganizing)
o USDA (Who needs it? Farmers have more knowledge, and the meat inspectors are asleep at the switch.)
o Internal Revenue Service (Get rid of the tax code and substitute a graduated flat tax on top line income with no exemptions or deductions. All citizens to be treated equally under the tax laws with no social programs handed to the tax collector for enforcement.)
o Increase the estate tax (Bush’s so-called “death tax,” to better redistribute the wealth. There is much too much wealth concentrated in the 2-3% of the U.S. population, who control 60% of the wealth.)
o Maximum income for a corporate president to be no more than 25 times the income of the front-line worker.

PRINCIPLE REDUCTION is the OBVIOUS answer people!! Basically, this bails out the homeowner (and I only advocate this for people who live in their homes, not speculators)

Gee, how spiffy of you to exclude the greedy speculators while quietly including yourself in the recipients column. I’m a renter who was shut out of the housing market by fools like you who overpaid for their houses. Why should I now have to subsidize you?

I have a better solution. Hand out a $500,000 check to every family. You can use yours to settle your debts, I’ll use mine to go on a spending spree like many homedebtors did by pulling money out of their home ATM when things were all rosy.

Sure, the price of everything will double and triple but at least you’ll stop whining because you won’t be underwater on your house anymore. And us poor renters won’t be solely on the hook to bailout not only banks and car companies, but mortgage slaves as well.

The empire you are trying to build is collapsing on top of your head, much to the relief of the rest of the world.

These sad news for you are great news for the rest of the planet.

An European.

so what is the problem? the problem is that we have 140 million plus people in this country receiving food stamps which have to be paid for (as well as their medicaid, disability for the welfare kids who have “add” ha ha, sure! and thus provide their parents access to the trough of disabilty checks, housing subsidies, daycare subsidies including paying the Grandparents to watch their own kids, and less you forget the free school breakfasts, lunches and snacks.) of course, all of this came out of lyndon johnson’s great society which continued to grow and evolve to take over the budget of the united states.then the liberals decided that these people should own houses they couldn’t afford because the adages that had made america great…work hard, work harder, educate yourself, pull yourself up…were to be ignored as dscriminatory. soo they shoehorned illegals, welfare criminals and most of em are cheating the system in some way (even if only refusing to get married to the father/s of their children in order to continue the river of the welfare complex into their mouths) into the houses where they now sit just waiting for someone to dare and tell them they aren’t “worthy” of the house so they can yell discrmination even while not paying a dime.

why in the heck anyone works in this country is the question…

Sounds like the perfect excuse to “temporarily” eliminate private ownership of property, so the new housing czar can sort it all out for us. Don’t worry. Big Brother will make sure we all get what we deserve, no matter who it actually belongs to.