The Voices Inside My Head ;p

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure. Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. Congressional Reform Act of 2012  1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they’re out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Don’t you think it’s time? THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS! If you agree, pass it on. If not, delete. You are one of my 20+ - Please keep it going, and thanks

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A Tea Partier decided to pick a fight with a foreign president. It didn’t go so well.

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How Oil Prices Affect the Economy: Calling for a Third Industrial Revolution (by epipheo)

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This explains the complexity of solving problems of Africa…

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WHAT THE FREAKIN HELL IS THIS SHIT!?!?!
Who designed and built the background graphics on that entire screen!?!?! Not to mention the entire NBC network!?!?!!

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An Experiment in Market Forces

Here is something I want all those who have a food budget to try. Pick an item at the supermarket or any other shop that isn’t popular that you actually wouldn’t mind eating long term. The unpopular ones have very few of them available. Keep buying it on a weekly or bi-weekly basis… and see what happens.

I started to realize how effective the purchasing power of one can have on market forces when I had to cook for myself in college apartments. The supermarket only had 4 loaves of this particular bread that I thought wasn’t too cheap(the really cheap ones has a lot of air bubbles) and not too expensive but healthy. I bought it every other week… I noticed they didn’t bother to restock that one. It dwindled down to the last loaf… I bought it. When I came back… they restocked and expanded the shelf space for it to 6 loaves. A simple choice I made, changed the purchasing decisions of that supermarket.

I do this all the time. My parents would buy Asian food products at Asian markets because they are cheaper and have a wider selection. But the places I lived didn’t have them. So I would buy what I wanted(rice, soy sauce, tofu, shrimp chips and pocky) at the more expensive Non-Asian markets. Gradually the Asian foods section of the supermarket widened and they added more items. Oh look there be Asians in the area!!! :P It was just me willing to spend the extra money to send them a message.

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