| I dream of a movement starting in California and | | | | summarily dismissed. That is especially critical for the |
| marching toward Washington, DC. We could call the | | | | Treasury Department where many officials came |
| march M.O.W. March on Washington to mow their | | | | from the financial industry. |
| grass. Big changes are needed in this country and our | | | | 4. Demand a constitutional amendment banning paid |
| leaders have neither the will nor the power to get it | | | | lobbyists from contacting elected officials in any way. |
| done. Why should they? Elected officials live lives of | | | | 5. Make a law prohibiting anyone in any government |
| luxury and privilege at our expense. They reward | | | | position from contacting elected officials without a five |
| themselves in ways that we don't even see. Who | | | | year minimum break from service. |
| among us wouldn't trade for their health care benefits, | | | | 6. Require intense audits to scrutinize from |
| retirements, and bank accounts? Why else would | | | | top-to-bottom every business receiving government |
| millionaires spend fortunes to get elected? | | | | money. Make sure that the charges are fair and |
| What if a group of non-violent but seriously concerned | | | | reasonable and there are no illegal payoffs to |
| citizens gathered on the west coast and trekked east | | | | government officials. |
| to Washington? What if this group grew like a | | | | 7. Insist that the congress live by the rules they impose |
| snowball rolling downhill picking up millions of | | | | on the rest of us. Eliminate pensions for them other |
| sympathizers as they passed by? What if this group | | | | than Social Security. Provide the same health care |
| was 10, 20, or 50 Million strong by the time it reached | | | | available to the rest of the citizenry. |
| the capital? Do you think government would listen? Do | | | | 8. Balance the books and put the country on a path to |
| you think we could present demands that they would | | | | eliminate debt. |
| have to take seriously? I do. I believe in the power of | | | | 9. Stop Foreign Aid. Why are we giving away our |
| the people, but it takes huge commitment for the | | | | money when we are so far in debt? |
| people to make the necessary changes, and what | | | | 10. Eliminate the IRS and institute a value added tax. |
| changes are necessary? | | | | We all buy things, including the rich. This way everyone |
| | | | pays based on what they buy. If necessities like food |
| 1. Every elected official in the congress has to step | | | | and shelter need to be protected from the tax, so be |
| down, right now. Pack up and leave immediately. No ifs, | | | | it, but use the tax for supporting government not as a |
| buts, or exceptions, they have all been tainted. And if | | | | way to spy on Americans. Let IRS agents audit |
| by some chance one of them is clean, let them prove | | | | government contracts. |
| it to their constituency. | | | | Doesn't this make sense? We as a people will never |
| 2. Every staff member of a congressman needs to | | | | be free as long as a small number of leaders can be |
| go home and get real jobs. | | | | easily accessed and influenced. With money comes |
| 3. Any bureaucrat who serves in a position that | | | | power. We the people have our voices. If we want |
| oversees industries in which he or she was working | | | | real change, we have make it happen. Otherwise, we |
| prior to taking a government position must be | | | | will get more of the same. |