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Tell Congress: No breaks until there's a plan to defuse our ticking debt bomb
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To: John Boehner - Speaker of the House, Eric Cantor - House Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi - House Minority Leader, Harry Reid - Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell - Senate Minority Leader
Until a deal is reached by both political parties to effectively address our federal government’s mounting debt, you should not take any more "breaks." No more week long breaks for federal holidays, no two week breaks in the spring, and no month long break during August. Staying in Washington...
…20,625 people signed the petition
In the next 5 months, the Senate will spend 5 weeks outside of Washington, D.C., and the House will spend 6 weeks outside of Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile, America's mounting debt threatens our collective future and the economic security of all our families. The debt impacts every issue Americans care about, including immigration, education, environmental issues, infrastructure, national security, or almost any other issue the federal government could address.
There are multiple reasons members of Congress might go home, but given the gravity of the problem, and the years that Congress has already delayed action, we believe nothing is more important than members staying in Washington and doing their jobs. The fundraisers can wait. Our nation's ticking debt bomb can't.
This petition is non-partisan and does not advocate any specific solution to our debt problems.
Now that we have surpassed our first goal, we want to reach 10,875 signatures - 25 for the 435 existing congressional districts. We will move our goal higher from there, with the hope of garnering media attention so that members of Congress will buckle down and get to work.
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Update #2
Posted on Mar 4On Friday, March 1st, David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General and Founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative, joined CNBC Squawk Box to discuss the sequester and No Deal, No Break.
Walker said, "Our political system has sunk to a new low. The sequester is due to a failure of the President, the Senate, and the House to reach a reasoned and reasonable approach to deal with deficit reduction."
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Update #1
Posted on Feb 22On February 20th, Dave Walker, CEO of the Comeback America Initiative, was interviewed about No Deal, No Break by Sally Kidd of Hearst TV. Watch the interview here.
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Impeach Barack Obama is a wonderful idea
it time to fumigate the white house and start over
Maybe they are making too much money to do their job. Maybe they should do their job and then get paid like the rest of us.
If they suffered like others will due to they're own practice of doing nothing, I bet they would start caring, remember they also have health insurance paid for by us
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Another thing you have to know, THE GOVERNMENT HAS TOTAL CONTROL OVER THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA. They give us just what they want and need to maintain the illusion of freedom of speech, freedom of the press etc.. In a way they know we’ll accept it.
James Madison Said, “Let them think they govern, and they will be governed”.
It’s like living in a giant cult. The grounds are big. Apparent freedom to those, “born into it”.
…But….all the information and, “Affairs/ money and other types” are dealt...
Another thing you have to know, THE GOVERNMENT HAS TOTAL CONTROL OVER THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA. They give us just what they want and need to maintain the illusion of freedom of speech, freedom of the press etc.. In a way they know we’ll accept it.
James Madison Said, “Let them think they govern, and they will be governed”.
It’s like living in a giant cult. The grounds are big. Apparent freedom to those, “born into it”.
But….all the information and, “Affairs/ money and other types” are dealt with by, The Ruling Elite, then the chain of command. They create, and change rules, and history to suite their purpose.
The government and society imposes on our FREDOMS in an overwhelming way.
They have us believing we’d be living a savage, impossible life without the protection and education of the government. Humans can be bad, we’ll prey on each other in the most vicious ways.
Do we really need them to protect us from ourselves?
Honestly, I like the petition and I did sign. But be frank and not so superficial as to think the people in power, whether we elected or not, are having just too much fun and really does not have the time to sit and read the petition anyways.! With week long vacations, expensive golfing camps (luckily we were able to help out with the extremely expensive cost), taking out that huuugeee boat and yacht, and all the airplane rides we help out with so they can go to get a new rug in France, well...
…Honestly, I like the petition and I did sign. But be frank and not so superficial as to think the people in power, whether we elected or not, are having just too much fun and really does not have the time to sit and read the petition anyways.! With week long vacations, expensive golfing camps (luckily we were able to help out with the extremely expensive cost), taking out that huuugeee boat and yacht, and all the airplane rides we help out with so they can go to get a new rug in France, well they just will not have enough time!! I mean think about it, we don't actually pay them to work do we?? Jeesh
What about all the vacations him and his wife have been taking.
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Os servidores publicos dos EUA encontrar solução para uma economia sustentabilidade.
Let's tell Congress to do their job!
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Congress no workin results, no pay. Keep it Simple.
Everyday I just get further baffled by this kind of behavior....What happened to this country , really?
No Way. They are over paid as it is. Paid vacations, Paid benefits, Paid everything. They need to start paying for the privilege of being ELECTED to the Congress. We the people don't get paid for not doing our jobs. We get Fired.
They have all left the building. Really, they have all gone home! I think it's time to revamp Washington completely.
Why didn't they do something 5 yrs ago? They have to draw the line somewhere. I feel bad but do we want to pay more taxes? We need to clean Washington up.