Latest News!Written By Comment Count Comment Last Three November 08, 2009
Chuck Floyd
The U.S. Congress must be reformed to save our democracy and nation. The Congress is out of control and has too much power. We need to be afraid of long-time members of Congress who think they know more than the average American tax paying citizen.
The Congress: *Spends too much money *Extends the national debt w/o regard for our economy *Passes laws that will not aid economic recovery *Trys to supervise and controll everything such as healthcare *Members make a career out of public service *Members are more concerned about self and party, not the American citizen *Members promote and protect their selected groups such as ACORN and unions *Members break the law, cheat, and steal, yet try to protect themselves In order to return the U.S. Congress to true public servants and be accountable to the tax paying citizens of the United States, the below reform of Congress MUST OCCUR: 1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below. A. Two Six year Senate terms B. Six Two year House terms C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. 2. No Tenure / No Pension: A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. 3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security: All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work. 4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. 5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. 6. Congress looses their current health care system. Congress should participate in the same health care system as the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. 7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. 8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/10. The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. -
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October 11, 2009
Chuck Floyd
Immigration Reform is needed in the United States. Yes, we need comprehensive immigration reform, but we do not start with amnesty for virtually everyone unlawfully in the United States. We stop all illegal human trafficking, restructure our MOUs and treaties with Mexico and other countries, stop all government services for illegals, arrest company managers who hire illegals, and have a coordinated effort by local, city, state, and federal police forces. The government must shut off jobs for illegals.
America's immigration and border security problems, can't be solved without first dealing with the estimated 12 to 20 million illegally living here. Most liberals and Democrats believe that there is no practical or compassionate alternative to just giving them all amnesty, often called legalization, and putting them on the road to citizenship. This kind of thinking is just flat wrong. The first problem with the case for an "amnesty first" approach is that it doesn't work. In 1986, President Reagan supported similar reforms. At the time, the unlawful population was about 3 million and now it is 12-20 million. That really worked!! Amnesty fails for two reasons. First, this approach undermines the rule of law. Allowing individuals to sidestep immigration laws just encourages more illegal border crossing. The second problem with "amnesty first" is that once the measure is passed, proponents of open borders lose all interest in compromise and kill further efforts to enforce immigration and workplace laws. The even bigger problem with "amnesty first" is that the American people will never let the law get passed. Immigration reform is not a partisan issue. It does not break down cleanly between liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats. Attitudes on immigration are very much affected by regional, class and ethnic biases. Americans are not of one mind on this issue. Rather than starting with amnesty, Congress could begin with systemic reforms that would actually address the challenge of managing migration (rather than just emptying the illegal pool, only to watch it fill again). The government could start by creating temporary worker programs that would actually work, that would get employers the employees they need when they need them so that they grow their businesses and the American economy. The argument that temporary workers displace the work force is false. Jobs grow more jobs. It's that simple. The government will have to demonstrate that it can enforce the law and control America's borders. This is the flip side to creating effective temporary worker programs. Not only does the U.S. have to offer a legitimate alternative to unlawful employment, it has to make the alternative of ignoring the law a less appealing option. We need to divide the illegal population and develop specific strategies for each group. For example, several million of the illegal immigrants are single and not interested in U.S. citizenship. They would willingly self-deport back to their home countries if they at least had the hope of returning through a legitimate temporary worker program. Probably 1 million to 2 million are criminals who have committed felonies and probably shouldn't have been offered amnesty in the first place. They need to be the focus of deportation procedures by the Department of Homeland Security. If we stop all employment of illegals, except for those that register, we will shrink the illegal population to a more manageable level and much less of a burden to our communities, our sovereignty and our civil society. We have to get control of our borders and stop Mexico from directing our foreign policy. Playing politics with immigration rather than adopting an honest, sensible piecemeal reform program makes no sense. As long as comprehensive-reform Democrats continue their crusade, senseless policymaking will be the order of the day. It's time to end "amnesty first" and start enforcing the law and protecting American citizens. -
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July 23, 2009
Chuck Floyd
Below are some REAL suggestions for health care reform. This is what the American people expect and deserve.
To create a system that delivers more choices of higher quality health care at lower cost we need to take the following six straightforward steps: Stop Paying the Crooks. First, we must dramatically reduce healthcare fraud within our current healthcare system. Outright fraud - criminal activity - accounts for as much as 10 percent of all healthcare spending. That is more than $200 billion every year. Medicare alone could account for as much as $40 billion a year. (Please visit HealthTransformation.net for the information about our latest CHT Press book, Stop Paying the Crooks, edited by Jim Frogue.) Move from a Paper-based to an Electronic Health System. As it stands now, it is simply impossible to keep up with fraud in a paper-based system. An electronic system would free tens of billions of dollars to be spent on investing on the kind of modern system that will transform healthcare. In addition, it would dramatically increase our ability to eliminate costly medical errors and to accelerate the adoption of new solutions and breakthroughs. Tax Reform. The savings realized through very deliberately and very systematically eliminating fraud could be used to provide tax incentives and vouchers that would help cover those Americans who currently can't afford coverage. In addition, we need to expand tax incentives for insurance provided by small employers and the self-employed. Finally, elimination of capital gains taxes for investments in health-solution companies can greatly impact the creation advancement of new solutions that create better health at lower cost. Create a Health-Based Health System. In essence, we must create a system that focuses on improving individual health. The best way to accomplish this is to find out what solutions are actually working today that save lives and save money and then design public policy to encourage their widespread adoption. For example, according to the Dartmouth Health Atlas, if the 6,000 hospitals in the country provided the same standard of care of the Intermountain or Mayo health clinics, Medicare alone would save 30 percent of total spending every year. We need to make best practices the minimum practice. We need the federal government and other healthcare stakeholders to consistently migrate to best practices that ensure quality, safety and better outcomes. Reform Our Health Justice System. Currently, the U.S. civil justice system is the most expensive in the world-about double the average cost in virtually every other industrialized nation. But for all of the money spent, our civil justice system neither effectively compensates persons injured from medical negligence nor encourages the elimination of medical errors. Because physicians fear malpractice suits, defensive medicine (redundant, wasteful treatment designed to avoid lawsuits, not treat the patient) has become pervasive. CHT is developing a number of bold health-justice reforms including a "safe harbor" for physicians who followed clinical best practices in the treatment of a patient. You can learn more at HealthTransformation.net. Invest in Scientific Research and Breakthroughs. We must accelerate and focus national efforts, re-engineer care delivery, and ultimately prevent diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and diabetes which are financially crippling our healthcare system. The Last Thing We Need is a Plan That Raises Taxes and Eliminates Jobs -
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