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Quote of the Day:
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
- Edmund Burke
Subject: The Big Issue -- $53 trillion in unfunded liabilities
The federal government has made a lot of promises in your name. It has committed you to pay most of the health care costs of the elderly (Medicare), and to provide them with a small stipend (Social Security). It has also borrowed trillions of dollars, to pay current expenses, that your children and grandchildren will have to repay. Unfortunately, future revenues will be insufficient to fulfill these promises.
The Government Accountability Office estimates the future shortfall in funding at $53.3 trillion. Other experts say the number is almost certainly higher. This means that every full-time worker owes a staggering $440,000, courtesy of government excess.
Eventually, that debt must be paid, either in higher taxes, or in reduced benefits. These numbers represent a looming crisis of staggering proportions.
What can be done?
Can the politicians raise taxes to cover the shortfall? The answer is no. The Government Accountability Office estimates that federal taxes would have to double in order to do the job. Can you afford to double your taxes? Could you afford to pay $440,000 in government debts, even if you had two decades to do it?
Would massively higher taxes even work? The answer is no. Higher taxes don't necessarily result in higher revenues to the government. Increased taxes always lead to increased tax avoidance, a decreased incentive to work and invest, and fewer dollars available to capital markets. The result can be less revenue rather than more.
Can we grow our way out of the problem? The answer is again no. The Government Accountability Office estimates the economy would have to grow at a double digit rate for the next 75 years!, but . . .
In the real world our economic growth is only in the low single digits, and even this rate of growth may be hard to sustain as the weight of rising government expenditures takes more and more rescources from the productive economy.
Indeed, the current debt estimate of $53.3 trillion already takes economic growth into account. If the rate of growth should prove lower than expected then the real size of the unfunded liabilites will be even higher. Those who look to economic growth to magically cure this problem are whistling past the graveyard.
What about benefit cuts for Medicare and Social Security? This might help the government balance its books, but at the cost of breaking government promises and pushing expenses back on the elderly.
What about borrowing? Can the politicians borrow their way out of this mess? Alas, no. Moody, the credit rating service, has already issued a warning that the federal government's credit rating will be lowered if doesn't reduce its debt burden. Practically speaking, a lower credit rating means higher interest rates on federal government debt. And that means more and more of your taxes will go to pay the interest on that debt -- making BOTH the inevitable tax increases and benefit cuts more painful.
Meanwhile, the politicians continue to run deficits year after year, in spite of the looming financial crisis. More debt means more interest charges. Interest payments will already consume nearly one dollar out of every four you pay in personal income taxes this year.
One sure way to improve things would be to . . .
Cut government spending now
Stop running deficits now
Start paying off the government debt now
And thereby reduce what we will owe in future interest payments
It's time to stop whistling past the graveyard. It's time to start facing facts, which means we must start cutting government spending, now! Downsize DC! Please send Congress a message. Make Congress aware that you're aware of the government's dire financial plight. Tell them you want reduced spending now, a balanced budget now, and debt retirement, starting now.
You can send your message here.
Thank you for being a part of the growing Downsize DC Army.
Jim Babka
President
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Subject: Victory!
The immigration bill is dead. It fell short by 14 votes. Better yet, the whole issue has become so controversial, in so many different ways, that no further action on immigration is expected any time soon.
Fox News has reported that the Senate phone system crashed yesterday, from so many calls coming in.
We call this overwhelming, inescapable, resistance numbing pressure!
But the media, as usual, is getting the story wrong. The professional reporting class seems unable to contain more than one idea or fact in their heads at any given time, so they're all reporting that the bill's defeat was due to its supposed amnesty provisions.
It is to laugh.
The truth is that nearly everyone, on all sides of the issue, opposed this bill, for every reason imaginable.
The truth is that hundreds of groups like DownsizeDC.org were organizing opposition to this legislation for many different reasons. And one of the biggest objections was the REAL ID provisions.
Congratulations to you for the role you played in killing this horrible bill. Now, we have a prediction to make . . .
THIS IS THE FUTURE.
Increasingly, this is how the United States is going to be governed. Congress will propose, but the people will dispose, by exerting overwhelming, inescapable, resistance numbing pressure.
The Internet has made this possible, just as printing made the Reformation and the Enlightenment possible, and TV enabled the civil rights movement.
This Big Change will mostly mean that Congress will do less, because there will usually be vast interlocking groups of opposition ready to fight, often for conflicting reasons, but usually with the same result -- to say and impose a giant NO on Congressional schemes.
The pressure of the people will become the ultimate check and balance on state expansionism.
This is the future.
And we have another prediction to make . . .
The era of partisan politics and over-sized political personalities is coming to an end. Parties and personalities will matter less and less, while public opinion on individual issues and bills will matter more and more.
Many people will continue to have partisan loyalties, and many more will root for one candidate or another, for the same reason people love sports. But this contest of labels and names will matter less and less. It will increasingly become a "sound and fury signifying nothing."
Groups like DownsizeDC,org are the future. Our strategy is the main chance.
Do you want to win? Then this is the way to do it. And frankly, we see zero evidence that there is any other way to do it.
But there's something else involved here. If you look deeply at the public opinion polls on various issues you will see that most people want smaller government on most issues most of the time. We call this the Great Downsize DC Consensus. But . . .
You wouldn't know about this Consensus from watching the news, because the journalistic obsession with the sports reporting of partisan politics ignores this point.
Likewise, the rigged partisan division into two Big Government parties, and two Big Government philosophical groupings, leaves the small government consensus disenfranchised, un-represented, and completely invisible.
Partisan politics isn't the solution. Partisan politics is the problem!
DownsizeDC.org isn't a political party. It's a way to recruit and organize the Downsize DC Consensus free from the barriers of primitive partisan tribalism. It can also be, as our recruiting and organizing gains critical mass, a way to make the smaller government consensus VISIBLE for the first time.
We don't think it is a matter of "if this will happen," we think it is a matter of "when?"
After all, DownsizeDC.org is the future.
Yet part of the answer to the "when" question is up to you.
June has been one of our best months so far. We've recruited more than 800 new Downsizers, and sent more than 40,000 messages to Congress, plus countless phone calls. Now all we have to do is pay for it. Please help us make budget for June. We are very close.
A generous anonymous donor has pledged $1,500 for this purpose. But in order to get that $1,500 we must raise another $1,500 from other donors. We are oh so close. If you can contribute today your contribution will be WORTH TWICE AS MUCH. Plus . . .
We'll mail a "9/11: Press for Truth" DVD to your home. Here's how . . .
If you're an existing monthly credit card pledger in good standing as of June 15, 2007, all you have to do is increase your monthly pledge by at least $1, and we'll send one to you.
If you're NOT an EXISTING monthly credit card pledger then you can start a monthly credit card pledge of at least $6, or make a one-time credit card donation of $35 or more, and we'll send you the DVD. (Sorry, for technical reasons we cannot make this offer for PayPal pledges or donations).
Please help us make budget. You can make your contribution here.
Thank you for being a DC Downsizer.
Jim Babka
President
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"The RTBA: Read the Bills Act would make it a requirement that proposed legislation be posted to the internet for 7 days prior to a vote in Congress and that the bills actually be read in Congress before the vote. Sounds like a good idea. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible to have gargantuan complicated bills so Congress would need to change the way they approach the task of legislation."
-from the blog Connecticut Taxed
IN THIS ISSUE:
* President is frustrated with members of Congress who didn't read the bill.
* Last Week in Congress
* New RTBA Coalition Member
THE PRESIDENT WANTS CONGRESS TO READ THE BILLS
President George Bush made two illuminating points in remarks he made two weeks ago. Speaking of Congressional critics of the proposed 790-page Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill (S. 1348), Bush said,
“Oh, I'm sure you've heard some of the talk out there about people defining the bill. It's clear they hadn't read the bill. They're speculating about what the bill says, and they're trying to rile up people's emotions.”
Later on, he said,
“Those determined to find fault with this bill will always be able to look at a narrow slice of it and find something they don't like. If you want to kill the bill, if you don't want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it, you can use it to frighten people.”
Source: The White House
The first quote suggests President Bush wants members of Congress to actually read the bill before criticizing it. Does that mean he would support Downsize DC's Read the Bills Act?
Well, taking the two quotes together, it looks like the President wants something like the opposite of the RTBA. Downsize DC's bill would require supporters of a bill to read it in its entirety before voting for it. But we don't believe opponents of a bill should have to waste their time reading the whole thing. Disagreeing with a bill's intent, or with just one provision, are sufficient reasons to oppose it.
The President, on the other hand, wants critics of the bill to read it first, as if criticizing a bill that would alter the course of the country is akin to criticizing a movie one hasn't even seen. On the other hand, according to the President, it seems the bill's supporters are actually better off if they don't read the entire bill. It is better for supporters to overlook the bill's unacceptable provisions, the provisions that might, as the President put it, “frighten people.” Again, it's as if the immigration bill is a movie. The Wizard of Oz frightens small children, but it's still a good movie. Likewise, some “little aspects” of the immigration bill may “frighten” friends of liberty and small government, but it's still a good bill.
Downsize DC disputes that logic. And thanks in part to your messages to Congress, this particular controversial immigration bill was abandoned. (Though the fight isn't over yet; we just found out the bill might be back on the Senate floor as soon as late next week.) Mr. President, you can be sure that Downsize DC will, without apology, continue to “pick one little aspect” of bills to “frighten people,” for as long as Congress proposes legislation that infringes on the liberty and privacy of the American people. We are sure to have less frightening bills after we pass the Read the Bills Act.
LAST WEEK IN CONGRESS
We don't complain about gridlock. We didn't like the immigration bill, but we're not complaining that the Senate wasted a week in debate before abandoning it. That meant they didn't pass other bills. Since most bills increase the size of the federal government, that's a good thing.
The House passed 15 bills totaling 242 pages. I've appended a full list of this legislation below, after my signature. The main theme seems to be federal meddling in science and education. The largest piece of legislation, however, is an Afghanistan nation-building bill. We believe the Read the Bills Act would cut down on the number of bills and the length of bills, so that Congress would address only the most pressing national concerns, leaving individuals, markets, and state and local government handle the rest. You can send a message to Congress urging it to introduce and pass the Read the Bills Act by going here.
NEW RTBA COALITION MEMBER
We have one new addition to the Read the Bills Act Coalition this week:
thinkbridge
If you have a website or blog, you too can be a part of the Coalition and be linked to from the DownsizeDC.org blog. You can read the instructions for joining the Read the Bills Act Coalition here.
Thank you for being a DC Downsizer, and please consider making a contribution or starting a monthly pledge to further our work. You can do so here.
James Wilson
Assistant to the President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.
These are the bills Congress passed the week of June 8. The descriptions are taken, generally verbatim, from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests:
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H.R. 1139 - Riverside-Corona Feeder Water Supply Act, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design and construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, and other uses from the Bunker Hill Groundwater Basin, Santa Ana River, California; 4 pages
H.R. 1736 - Amending the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to provide for conjunctive use of surface and groundwater in Juab County, Utah: H.R. - 4 pages
H.R. 1175 - Amending the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to increase the ceiling on the Federal share of the costs of phase I of the Orange County, California, Regional Water Reclamation Project – 4 pages
H.R. 361 - Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2007 - 8 pages
H.R. 1469 - Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 2007, to establish the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation under the authorities of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 - 28 pages
S. 1537 - Authorizing the transfer of certain funds from the Senate Gift Shop Revolving Fund to the Senate Employee Child Care Center, -clearing the measure for the President - 21 pages
H.R. 1051 - National STEM Scholarship Database Act to direct the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a public website through which individuals may find a complete database of available scholarships, fellowships, and other programs of financial assistance in the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - 6 pages
H.R. 2559 - Temporarily extending the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 - 2 pages
H.R. 1467 - 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act:, to authorize the National Science Foundation to award grants to institutions of higher education to develop and offer education and training programs - 12 pages
H.R. 1716 - Green Energy Education Act of 2007: to authorize higher education curriculum development and graduate training in advanced energy and green building technologies - 6 pages
H.R. 632 - H-Prize Act of 2007 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to establish monetary prizes for achievements in overcoming scientific and technical barriers associated with hydrogen energy - 16 pages
H.R. 964 - Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass (Act Spy Act ) to protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs - 36 pages
H.R. 2446 - Afghanistan Freedom and Security Support Act of 2007 - 84 pages
S. 5 - Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 - 3 pages
H.R. 65 - to provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina - 8 pages
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Subject: Virginia Tech killings
Did laws prohibiting gun possession, or carrying guns onto school
campuses, prevent what happened at Virginia Tech today?
Obviously not. The killer ignored any such laws.
Did gun prohibition laws perhaps prevent someone at Virginia Tech
from stopping the killer before his death toll rose so high? Perhaps
so.
Law abiding citizens tend to obey the gun prohibition laws. Criminals
do not.
We are not calling for any action on this issue. We are not
politicians, who, in moments of crisis, want to pose as saviors.
Instead, we just want to encourage people to stop and think.
We also want to express our condolences to the family members and
friends of the promising young people whose lives were taken in this
criminal act.
You can share your comments
on this event at our blog.
Thank you for being a DC Downsizer.
Jim Babka
President
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Perry Willis
Communications Director
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Subject: Repealing the Patriot Act
Our call to repeal the Patriot Act generated hate mail. In between
the many curse words employed by some of the angry mailers, their
basic arguments reduced to this . . .
The burden of proof lies with us, not the government. If the
government says it needs new powers in order to protect us, then we
must grant those powers.
Take this argument to its logical conclusion and there is no basis
for retaining a democratic republic of constitutionally limited
powers. The government merely needs to make claims and we must accept
them.
We do not like this argument or its logical consequences, so we take
the opposite approach.
Government has a monopoly of the use of force. This is a supreme
power, and a dangerous one. Therefore, this monopoly must be
controlled and limited. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is
one way to do this. DISTRUST of government in the minds of citizens
is another.
The politicians running the government routinely ignore
constitutional limits. Therefore, an inherent and consistent distrust
of government, on the part of the people, is indispensable.
The burden of proof must ALWAYS rest on the government's shoulders.
Critical thinking, even distrust, should be the automatic response of
every citizen to every government request to remove or reduce legal
limits on its powers.
There are few more compelling proofs of the need for this distrust
than the response of our government to the 9-11 attack. It is a
record of lies, incompetence, and opportunism.
The Patriot Act stands at the heart of this history of monopoly power
run amok.
The Patriot Act was not even available for members of Congress to
read at the time they passed it into law. If you did not know this,
and it comes as a shock to you, NOW might be the time to send
Congress a message calling for them to pass Downsize DC's "Read the
Bills Act." You can do so here.
Contained within the renewal of the very large Patriot Act was a
provision removing checks-and-balances in the appointment of U.S.
Attorneys. Senator Dianne Feinstein recently expressed shock that
Congress had passed such a thing, all but admitting that she and her
colleagues hadn't read the bill. This is one more argument you can
make to Congress
about the need for the "Read the Bills Act," and one more reason why
you should consistently distrust your government.
Prior to the 9-11 attacks, as every American should now know, based
on nationally televised testimony before Congress, the FBI knew that
suspected terrorists were in the United States, planning an attack.
They also knew that some of these suspects were learning how to fly
planes, but NOT how to land them.
All of this knowledge was gained without the Patriot Act. We did not
need the Patriot Act then, and we do not need it now. What we need is
a smaller, more streamlined government that can actually FOCUS ON
PROTECTING US.
Since 9-11 our government has done everything BUT FOCUS. It has run
off in a thousand different directions, assuming new powers, and
creating new thickets of bureaucracy. It has devoted more resources
to starting an unnecessary war in Iraq than it has to catching the
people who attacked us. And . . .
There's no publicly available testimony that evidence obtained
through the Patriot Act has been used to convict a single person.
Given that the Patriot Act has been such a lightening rod issue, we
should expect that exhibits of Patriot Act successes would be very
well known, shouldn't we? But they're not. Instead, we have evidence
that the government has abused its Patriot Act powers (which we
shared with you Monday).
Distrust of government as a default position is justified by the
monopoly nature of government power. But that was not what we asked
of anyone in our Monday message. Distrust of government is also
justified by the massive evidence that government consistently abuses
its power. And that's what we presented.
It is time for citizens to do their job. It is time for us to fulfill
our role as a bulwark against the monopoly power of government. It is
time for us to demand that Congress repeal the Patriot Act. You can
do so here.
But we must also do more. We must stop playing defense and start
playing offense. The "Read the Bills Act" is one powerful weapon in
our offensive arsenal. But we need more. We also need the "One
Subject at a Time Act" to prevent politicians from combining
unrelated provisions into one bill -- like they did with the Patriot
Act.
We want to launch the "One Subject at a Time Act" sooner rather than
later, but we will not do so without adequate financial support.
Specifically, we need more monthly credit card pledgers. When we have
$7,500 a month in pledges, we will launch the "One Subject at a Time
Act."
Here's what we need to get there . . .
* 400 people pledging a dime a day ($3 a month) would do it.
* So would 240 people pledging 16 cents per day ($5 a month), or . .
.
* 120 people pledging 34 cents per day ($10 a month), or . . .
* 60 people pledging 67 cents per day ($20 a month), or . . .
* 16 people pledging about $2.50 per day ($76 a month) would do it.
Those people can be new pledgers or current pledgers increasing their
pledges by those amounts. But those amounts are not a lot. If you
want to help you can do so HERE
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We suspect that the "One Subject at a Time Act" will be as popular as
the "Read the Bills Act." if not more so. It might even get
introduced in Congress first. We won't know until we launch it and we
cannot launch without your support.
Pledgers who support us will be perpetually listed as "sponsors" of
this bill on the website page dedicated to the "One Subject at a Time
Act." (unless they choose not to be listed). Please, add you name to
the roster by starting a monthly pledge today.
Thank you for being a DC Downsizer,
Jim Babka
President
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Today begins a new month of creating and building -- of AGGRESSIVE
ACTION. We'll start by telling you what we accomplished last month.
* We made budget for the 7th month in a row. Thank you!
* We recruited 416 new DC Downsizers. Thank you!
* We sent 19,206 messages to Congress. Thank you!
These numbers are especially significant because so far, in both
January and February, we've eclipsed what we did in the same month
last year.
We exceeded our results for last February by recruiting 174 more
Downsizers, and sending 7,953 more messages to Congress than we did
last February.
This is our goal -- to do more in every month of 2007 than we did in
the corresponding month last year.
So far so good.
But now, the month of March presents a real challenge. Last March we
recruited 1,130 new Downsizers, and sent 43,044 messages to Congress.
These numbers will be tough to beat, but we're determined to do it.
The key is the recruitment number. If we can recruit more than 1,130
new Downsizers, then we're pretty sure that we'll also beat the
"messages to Congress" number.
What if . . .
Each DC Downsizer was to recruit one new Downsizer during the month
of March? If that happened then the Downsizer Army would grow to in
excess of 30,000 in the space of just 30-days. Of course, we aren't
likely to get that kind of participation, but when we consider the
possibility the goal of 1,130 plus 1 seems far more achievable.
Here's the question to consider. Do you know someone who thinks the
federal government is way too big and growing too fast? Do you know
people who would support the "Read the Bills Act" if you asked them
to do so? If so, send them an email asking them to send a message to
Congress about RTBA.
Do it today, so we can get a good jump on our March goals. Here's an
example of an email you could send to your friends (feel free to copy
it or change it to suit your needs) . . .
*****
I'm tired of Congress passing laws that I have to obey, but which
they haven't even read. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for me, but
it's a way of life for Congress.
Just recently Senator Feinstein of California stood up in the Senate
and complained because a bill she voted for contained a provision she
hadn't known about. She didn't know about it, because she didn't read
the bill before she passed it into law.
And Senator Kyl of Arizona was recently caught claiming in public
that a bill he voted for contained Constitutional protections that it
did not in fact contain. He gave bad information and misled the
public because he probably didn't read the bill before he voted on
it.
Congress passes thousands of pages of new laws every year, without
reading them. These bills are full of items inserted by bureaucrats
and lobbyists -- things that would never pass if our elected
representatives read the bills in advance, and actually knew what was
in them.
Imagine if you treated your tax returns the way Congress handles the
laws it creates. You'd go to jail.
I want to ask you for a favor. Help me. Help me fight this
Congressional irresponsibility. What I'm doing is incredibly easy.
You could do it too, and make my work far more effective. All it will
take from you is a few strokes of your keyboard and a few mouse
clicks.
I think you'll enjoy the process. You'll also have influence over
Congress that you don't have right now.
You elect people to Congress, but they never do what they say they're
going to do. But I, by contrast, have already had the experience of
changing votes in both the House and Senate, with my easy little key
strokes and mouse clicks.
You can have this power too, in a matter of minutes. And you could
really make my day if you write back to me to tell me you've done
what I'm about to suggest.
Go here
and read about the "Read the Bills Act." Then click on the link and
fill out the form to send a message to Congress asking them to pass
the "Read the Bills Act." It will only take a couple of minutes.
*****
That's it. Copy and paste the message above to your friends, or write
one of your own. Let's get our numbers moving upward as fast as
possible. Let's take AGGRESSIVE ACTION to expand the Downsize DC
Army.
And if you haven't yet sent a message to Congress about the "Read the
Bills Act," please do so here
.
Thank you for being a DC Downsizer.
Jim Babka
President
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