VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLAR 

I propose that we tally up what we should pay in taxes at the end of every year and that we should be able to elect to send the money to the public program(s) of our choice. If our concern is education, then we should send some to the school our kids go to. If the concern is poverty, send some to the soup kitchen or the the rehabilitation center or the job service agency that helps those folks. If our concern is potholes in the streets, send some to the transportation departments, then send the receipts with your tax form to the IRS. That's the only real way to have taxation with full representation.

We don't need the government to be the middleman and suck up all the money on earmarks and porkbarrel spending and fabulous permanent salaries and permanent health insurance for elected officials and oh yeah, WARS. I want to know where my tax money is going and I FOR SURE don't want to pay for any more stupid F*&%$&g wars, or for the US to be the world's 911 hotline, or for any imperialist endeavors. I want taxes to benefit the people of this country and be spent abroad for humanitarian purposes only. No more spending fortunes we don't have destroying other countries to protect corporate profits.

We really need to have taxation ONLY with representation. Our government has ignored the people's wishes for far too long and it has to stop.

ASK NOT what your country can do for you...
ask WHAT THE HELL DID THEY DID WITH OUR MONEY!!!

UNPRIVATIZE BANKING 

Our banking system is a privately-owned, for-profit enterprise based on fraud. It is owned and run by the international banking cartel because congress passed a law in 1913 (the Federal Reserve Act) creating the FED (a privately owned bank) and legalizing/granting a monopoly on the creation of money to the private banker owners via the FED.

Uh-oh. That's bad because it requires the US gov't to BORROW money AT INTEREST for government projects and operations from the FED and incurs an ever-increasing federal debt. Simply put, this is an economically and ecologically unsustainable system. It is an enormous monopoly game whose endgame, where the bankers have all the money, property and control and everyone else is broke, is what we are experiencing now. Our fraudulent banking system is at the root of our current economic meltdown. The interest on the debts has grown so large that the citizens and the country simply cannot pay anymore. Current government actions, the bailout and other schemes put forth by (guess who) bankers are aimed at propping up the current system as long as possible, instead of actually reforming banking so that it works for everyone.

WHAT WE SHOULD DO:

• Repeal the Federal Reserve Act and make debt-free treasury money the legal tender of the realm.
If the government can write a check, they can issue money--it's all done with the stroke of a key these days...
This would break the bankers' monopoly and the stranglehold they have on the US economy.

• Pay off the federal debt to the FED with all the worthless Federal reserve notes traded in for US Treasury Notes.
This would retire the debt and we would no longer need to spend our tax money paying interest on it.

• Create Treasury banks to lend to businesses and individuals, using the interest on those loans to fund gov't
operations and projects that enhance the well-being of the nation, -- education, research, infrastructure, etc.

• Form an Monetary Committee to oversee all banking activites including sales of deriviatives and draft
Ellen Brown, J.D., author of "The Web Of Debt and What We Can Do To Break Free" to oversee the
implementation of the 3 suggestions above.

I admit, I have only scratched the surface of these issues. These suggestions may not be the full answer to our woes but taking these steps would go along way toward straightening out our banking system and building a healthy and sustainable economy. An excellent analysis of how banking really works and affects all of us can be found at www.webofdebt.com, Other resources include the videos/films "From Freedom to Facism", "Money As Debt" --if you can still find it on the internet. It has been banned from google video and is expected to be removed from YouTube soon. And the video/film "The Money Masters".

All right, I am going to put WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT here too.
It seems like the why part doesn't get shown in the idea once it is submitted. If you see it twice, I apologize.

This idea is important because it would restore oversight and control of the money supply to the government on behalf of the people of this country. It would allow us to pay off and retire the federal debt, paying it off with all those traded in worthless federal reserve notes. It would provide competition for private banks, breaking the bankers' monopoly of money creation and their stranglehold on our government through the creation of recessions/depressions by manipulation of the availability of credit. Were the government to lend debt-free treasury money to businesses and individuals, interest on such loans could be used to fund government operations instead of taxes or to fund infrastructure, education, health care for everyone and other programs for the common good instead of being shoveled out of the economy into the pockets of private bankers. It would solve the "credit crunch". If the government decided it was time to make loans available there would be no bankers in between saying "Sorry! We're gonna use the bailout money to buy up other banks."

And I notice there is no category for ideas about banking. Why the hell not? We're in a depression for chrissakes! We SHOULD do something to fix the system.

THE PUBLIC GETS THEIR OWN VOTES IN HOUSE AND SENATE 

So we know that our elected officials do their best to ignore and trample on what the people of this country want like, oh, peace, health care, and so on. My idea is that we need a 4th branch of government aka The People. It would work like this: All legislation would be made available to the public online together with the pros and cons for a minimum of 2 months and the public would be able to vote on it during this time as we are voting for these ideas now. The difference is that these public votes would have to be take seriously. In the Senate, where there are 100 senators, The Public would get 100 votes. The votes of The Public would be required to be distributed among Ayes and Noes in the same proportion as the online voting and count just the same as senators' votes in passing or not passing legislation.
Same idea would also apply to the house of Reps.

The People would have the right to propose new laws, reconsider and rescind old laws and laws or reviews proposed by The People would be required to be discussed and voted on in The House and Senate same as laws generated by reps or senators.

Our elected officials have made careers of listening to and legislating for corporations and bankers and anybody who will give them money to get re-elected and ignoring the interests and welfare of their constituents. It's time put an end to this and reassert that this is a government BY AND FOR the people.

This would limit the ability of corporations, lobbyists and other special interests to dictate our country's laws and give the people an actual voice in government instead of lip-service one through our senators and representatives.

EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PATENTS that benefit the planet. 

YOu all have heard of eminent domain where the government can require you to sell your property to make way for some infrastructure necessary for the public good. My thought is that this principle should also apply to technological inventions which would really do the world a lot of good. It is well known that many patents which threaten the business of powerful corporations have been bought up and sat by these same corporations to protect profits.. Automakers for example sat on plans for engines that run on water, for electric cars and bought up railroads and let them rot to lessen competition for travel by automobile. I think it's high time for this practice to stop.

I propose that patents be regularly reviewed and that if it is deemed necessary for the good of the planet or the health of the population that the gov't may buy the patent from the patent holder for a reasonable fee and make the invention publicly owned and publicly accessible information.

This would spur the development of and make available new technologies which would help solve our energy source problems, oil dependence, pollution, and global warming to name just a few. It would also boost the economy as there would be work in R& D and in producing the technology and bringing it to market.

Why should intellectual property be treated differently than real property. If it is needed for the common good, let's buy it at a fair price and make it information or technology available. We need to use every resource we have to resolve the issues we are now facing.

BANK REFORM - Un-Privatize banking - ban gov't borrowing and deficit spending. 

Our banking system is a privately-owned, for-profit enterprise based on fraud. It is owned and run by the international banking cartel because congress passed a law in 1913 (the Federal Reserve Act) creating the FED (a privately owned bank) and legalizing/granting a monopoly on the creation of money to the private banker owners via the FED.

Uh-oh. That's bad because it requires the US gov't to BORROW money AT INTEREST for government projects and operations from the FED and incurs an ever-increasing federal debt. Simply put, this is an economically and ecologically unsustainable system. It is an enormous monopoly game whose endgame, where the bankers have all the money, property and control and everyone else is broke, is what we are experiencing now. Our fraudulent banking system is at the root of our current economic meltdown. The interest on the debts has grown so large that the citizens and the country simply cannot pay anymore. Current government actions, the bailout and other schemes put forth by (guess who) bankers are aimed at propping up the current system as long as possible, instead of actually reforming banking so that it works for everyone.

WHAT WE SHOULD DO:

• Repeal the Federal Reserve Act and make debt-free treasury money the legal tender of the realm.
If the government can write a check, they can issue money--it's all done with the stroke of a key these days...
This would break the bankers' monopoly and the stranglehold they have on the US economy.

• Pay off the federal debt to the FED with all the worthless Federal reserve notes traded in for US Treasury Notes.
This would retire the debt and we would no longer need to spend our tax money paying interest on it.

• Create Treasury banks to lend to businesses and individuals, using the interest on those loans to fund gov't
operations and projects that enhance the well-being of the nation, -- education, research, infrastructure, etc.

• Form an Monetary Committee to oversee all banking activites including sales of deriviatives and draft
Ellen Brown, J.D., author of "The Web Of Debt and What We Can Do To Break Free" to oversee the
implementation of the 3 suggestions above.

I admit, I have only scratched the surface of these issues. These suggestions may not be the full answer to our woes but taking these steps would go along way toward straightening out our banking system and building a healthy and sustainable economy. An excellent analysis of how banking really works and affects all of us can be found at www.webofdebt.com, Other resources include the videos/films "From Freedom to Facism", "Money As Debt" --if you can still find it on the internet. It has been banned from google video and is expected to be removed from YouTube soon. And the video/film "The Money Masters".

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If you want to vote on this ideaa go to the other one in Legal & Policy category and vote on it there. I just called it UNPRIVATIZE BANKING. --I had to repost it because I forgot the keywords and couldn't go back and put them in afterwards.--thanks, lihu