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FrankRep
05-19-2011, 07:55 PM
Liberty Action Agenda for JUNE 2011 - Pending Legislation for Congress


Oppose Public Debt Increase and Balance the Budget. (http://www.votervoice.net/core.aspx?AID=972&Screen=alert&IssueId=24332&APP=GAC&SiteID=-1&VV_CULTURE=en-us)


An increase in the public debt ceiling needs to be approved by August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has now estimated. Although the debt ceiling has already been exceeded in May, Geithner has various accounting techniques that will prevent any immediate problems from arising as a result of exceeding the current $14.3 trillion national debt limit.

Unfortunately, the practice of continually increasing the debt ceiling every year or two only prolongs the ultimate agony of having to pay off the towering national debt, now termed the public debt by government officials and political pundits. Numerous pie charts and graphs are circulating that try to illustrate the enormity of the current debt situation. But the bottom line shows that in order to have had no federal deficit in fiscal year 2010, federal spending would have to have been reduced by 37 percent across the board, including both discretionary spending and so-called entitlements.

The future of this nation and generations to come is in the hands of our elected representatives in Congress. Real reform and economic security must be accomplished by refusing to increase the public debt limit and balancing the budget now. Failure to eliminate the federal deficit will only lead to further inflation of our currency, which is a hidden tax. Contact your Senators and Representatives immediately and let them feel the pressure from those whose very survival depends on having a stable currency. Demand they not raise the debt ceiling or raise taxes, but instead balance the budget immediately by drastically reducing federal spending.

Email Congress!
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Oppose National Popular Vote — Preserve the Role of
the States.


There’s a new wrinkle in the old game of manipulating the outcome of elections: A single organization is behind a massive, well-orchestrated lobbying effort in virtually every state to restructure presidential election procedures. The wealthy California-based National Popular Vote (NPV) group is bent on reforming the way Americans have elected their president via the requirements contained in the Constitution by hijacking the Electoral College in a way that perverts its original purpose.

While NPV and its marketing line may sound good, their movement to have individual states enter into an interstate compact regarding how presidential elections are decided would make a fundamental change in the role of the electoral college without the necessity of a formal amendment to the Constitution with its requirement of 38 states for ratification. The NPV plan would allow as few as 18 states entered into the compact to effect the changeover for the entire nation, because these 18 states currently have the 270 electoral votes which would constitute a majority in presidential elections. Once this compact has member states with 270 or more electoral votes, then a majority of electoral votes cast in an election would automatically go to the winner of the national popular vote, thus eliminating the role of state vote totals.

For example (assuming your state joins the NPV compact), if Candidate P won in your home state, but Candidate O won the nation’s popular vote, all of your home state’s electoral votes would then be awarded to Candidate O. And, once enough states to constitute a majority of electoral votes would join the NPV compact, then even if your state had not joined the compact, your vote’s only impact would be as part of the national popular vote. Your state’s electoral votes could have no impact because those states with a majority of the electoral votes would have already committed the nation to awarding the presidency to the winner of the national popular vote. This would amount to a large step towards a pure democracy, and a drastic reduction in the role of the states and the electoral college as originally intended by the Founders.

The NPV system, endorsed by Common Cause (think George Soros), League of Women Voters, and FairVote, along with several liberal newspapers like the New York Times, is a nail in the coffin of our constitutional Republic, giving the upper hand for deciding elections to large costal states with big populations, a boon to liberals and tyrants because it makes electioneering so much easier. This method would silence the voices of the electorate in many states by transferring, in a very socialistic style, their presidential votes from one to another not of their choosing.

So far seven states and the District of Columbia, representing 77 electoral votes (29% of the 270 electoral votes needed for a majority) have joined the NPV compact of states.

The NPV promoters are so good at what they do that they have managed to have nearly identically worded bills introduced simultaneously in over 30 state legislatures. In 2011 two states have already defeated their NPV bills, two states want to study the matter further, and 27 states had NPV bills introduced: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The states of Washington, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Maryland have already enacted the law but have active legislation to withdraw from the compact and repeal their legislation. In many states the NPV bills will die without being passed when their legislatures adjourn. If your legislature is still in session and you are in a state where an NPV bill has been introduced, be sure to contact your state legislators in opposition to the NPV push.


Support H.R. 459, S. 202, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011 (http://www.votervoice.net/core.aspx?AID=972&Screen=alert&IssueId=24773&APP=GAC&SiteID=-1&VV_CULTURE=en-us)


The H.R. 1207 bill to Audit the Fed in the last Congress is this year’s H.R. 459 in the House and S. 202 in the Senate. The recent revelations showing the Federal Reserve’s policy of granting zerointerest loans to foreign banks in China, Libya, Mexico, Bahrain, etc., and low-interest loans to Morgan Stanley executives’ wives that netted them $220 million in cash for a $15 million investment, should be all the proof Americans need to demand a thorough investigation of the Fed’s policies. It will expose how the unelected and unaccountable Fed policy makers manipulate the economy and dilute the American people’s freedom and financial well-being. Americans deserve a real and transparent look at the Federal Reserve so that legislators can then gain sufficient support in Congress to restore sound money and phase out the Fed.

Email Congress!
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FrankRep
05-24-2011, 09:13 AM
bump

FrankRep
06-08-2011, 09:16 PM
Have you called your congressman lately?