Want Change? Try these:

· Limit Congress persons to not more than 2 terms (never vote for an incumbent – they have all been corrupted by the DC system. The longer in office, the more corrupt.)

· Prohibit Congressmen from voting for their own pay raises. Since when did any of us get to tell our employer how much he was going to pay us? (Did you know that Hillary’s appointment to Secretary of State, Daschle’s as Secretary of HSS, Salazar as Secretary of Interior, Solis as Labor and LaHood as Secretary of Transportation are all illegal? The constitution specifically states that any Congressman who voted to raise the pay of any civil service position, is not eligible for that position. As senators or representatives they all voted for civil service pay raises. [No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased [sic] during such time: and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
US Constitution Article 1, Section 6.] Remember. Barack Obama will be swearing to protect and defend this constitution on 1/20/2009. Selective, and politically convenient defending and protecting? What's up with that?

· Stop paying for law-makers high-priced insurance premiums. Congressmen are part-time employees. They just might legislate some improvements to the insurance industry if they actually had to purchase their own and deal with the claims process.

· We need to eliminate the Congressional pension system. They qualify for 100% retirement after just one tour of duty. Talk about privilege. They are utterly out of touch with the real retirement world. NO ONE else in this country has that level of security which puts them that much more out of touch with their constituents. We have almost nothing in common with them since they have taken the authority to isolate themselves from the “real” world in which we all live.

· Make Congress pay into the social security system. They make the laws for it, they should be participants in it. If they were dependent on it like everyone else, it might actually be solvent.

· Stop handing out aid to ILLEGAL aliens. If we did, there would be enough for Medicaid and the food stamp program for American citizens, without inflationary money printing.

· Secure our borders. At some point our economy will recover and the influx of illegal border jumpers will increase again.

· Amendment 14 was created to protect the citizenship of former slaves, not create an anchor-baby back door to citizenship. Eliminate that loophole.

· Stop the abuse of our welfare system. We feed children 3 meals a day from age 5 to 17. Charitable organizations give away good, clean clothes, companies collect , and donate school supplies. Hospital emergency rooms provide complete health care, at tax payer expense, for illegal residents and uninsured citizens. What are parents doing for their children? What is Congress doing to correct these issues?

· With all of the money being spent on investigative processes by Homeland Security, certainly an automated cross check of Social Security Numbers against IRS records, Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, and other programs could to wonders to track down fraud and abuse of benefit programs.

· Since virtually all mortgage loans are, eventually, government related, establish guidelines that prohibit any lender from approving a mortgage to a borrower who does not qualify, or make the originating lender keep that loan as their own investment.

· CEO and Senior management pay is out of control. It is time to put a stop to the ridiculous compensation packages paid to executives. To preserve free enterprise, offer a board of directors the option of paying it out of their own pockets.

· NO “photo” ID should ever be issued to anyone who’s face is covered, regardless of their religious affiliation.

This opinion owes large thanks to Norma White, Amarillo, TX for her significant and involuntary contribution to this document. If I was getting paid, I would have to send it to her.