Well there you go then; that's the last time I let someone else to my Snopes checking for me.
Besides, all the the recommendations listed are so intelligent, so rational, so "right" there is not a snowflakes chance in hell that they would ever be implemented. --Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:03 PM, joseph spinden <j...@qri.us> wrote: > If you click on the snopes verification link in the original email from > Doug, it is clear that Warren Buffet [sic] is NOT asking that the email be > forwarded. In fact, he apparently has no connection to it at all beyond > the fact that someone put his name on it. > > That said, it is not such a bad idea.. > > Joe Spinden > > > > > > On 1/7/12 5:01 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > I don't think I've ever done a chain letter before, but I thought this > one was worth making an exception. > > On the other hand, I have so little respect for the voters of this > country who allowed us to get into our current state. > > But still... > > Winds of Change.... > > 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 2011* 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 > 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with > Congressmen/women. Congressmen/women 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 with the above, pass it on. > Please > keep it going. Thanks. *Snopes verification: > http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/buffett.asp > * > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > drobe...@rti.org > d...@parrot-farm.net > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > -- > > "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." > > -- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1913. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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