{"id":5891,"date":"2014-06-13T00:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T06:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2014-06-12T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:43:00","slug":"warren-buffett-in-a-recent-interview-with-cnbc-offers-one-of-the-best-quotes-about-the-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5891","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling."},"content":{"rendered":"

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just\u00a0pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more\u00a0than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible\u00a0for re-election.<\/p>\n

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
\ntook only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!\u00a0The people demanded it. That was in 1971 – before computers, e-mail,\u00a0cell phones, etc.<\/p>\n

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year\u00a0or less to become the law of the land – all because of public pressure.<\/p>\n

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to\u00a0a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask\u00a0each of those to do likewise.<\/p>\n

In three days, most people in The United States of America will\u00a0have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed\u00a0around.<\/p>\n

Congressional Reform Act of 2014
\n1. No Tenure \/ No Pension.
\nA Congressman\/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they ‘ re out of office.
\n2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
\nAll funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
\nSocial Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
\nthe Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
\nAmerican people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
\n3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
\nAmericans do.
\n4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
\nCongressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
\n5. Congress loses their current health care system and
\nparticipates in the same health care system as the American people.
\n6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
\nAmerican people.
\n7. 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.
\nCongress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
\nCongress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
\nenvisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
\nterm(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
\nonly take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive
\nthe message. Don ‘ t you think it ‘ s time?<\/p>\n

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more\u00a0than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible\u00a0for re-election. The … Continue reading Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5894,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}