blue print for congress

A blueprint for congress What they need to do to get this country back on A sound financial basis. First make english the official language of the U. S. All official government documents and voting ballots to be printed in english only. If any one needs an interpater it would be up to them to furnish one. No government equity or business should be required by law to furnish one. that would save the government billions. second pass the right to work law . that would give businesses an opertunity to hire cheaper labor .Thereby creating more jobs , creating new businesses and all these people with new jobs would be paying taxes instead of the govrnment having to support them. Third raise out top income bracket on personal income from the present 35 persent one persent for every 100 thousand after the first 250 thousand up to 90 persent 4th reinstate the inheritance tax with A three million exemption then 10 percent on the fourth million and increase it 10 percent for each additional million up to 50 percent 5th make everybody pay the social security withholding tax on all of their income and return any tax collected on social security payments back in to the social security funds .that would solve the problem of the social security short fall,.If these recomendations were passed we would soon have the national debt paid off and our economy back on track. And we could save 50 percent on the taxes we are paying now because that is presently being used to pay the interest on the national debt If we use social security and medicare funds to pay off the national debt we are taking the money away from the poor people that need the money while the big money people and the unions that are responsible for the trouble we are in . so they should be paying the bill My opinion by John Zilverberg.

Arizona's Law

There has been A lot of fuss about Arizona’s new emigration law. Seems to me it is just supporting the federal emigrattion law. Every state ought to pass the same law then the states might be able to enforce the law which the federal government has failed to do.It’s easy to see why the illegal emigrants and their friends wouldn’t like the law.Criminals never like laws that criminalize them .But what would A country be like if we didn’t have laws and laws should be enforced.congress finaly passed A wallstreet regulation bill. And I hope it helps but I am afraid it is only A band aid on the big problem. While wall street seems to be prospering again We still have nearly 10 percent of our population out of jobs and many people losing their homes. We have to get this downtroden part of our population back into the main street, working and paying taxes. We are creating A society of have and have nots. We need to create some laws to level the playing field. Right now big money is running the show and they are running it to benefit themselves without regard to what it is doing to the country and the rest of the population . My opinion by John Zilverberg

The National Debt

The U.S. Government debt is now 94% of the nation's national gross product. That is 94% of our national income, and at the rate we are spending money, we will soon be a bankrupt nation like Greece. They say a big part of the problem is social security. The reason social security is in trouble is because our government that is our congress, has been using social security money for all kinds of pet projects. Some of which were probably good projects but they should have gotten the money to pay for them somewhere else other than the social security fund. The seniors paid that social security money to be used in their old age and that is all it should be used for.

The social security could still be easily fixed by raising the age bracket and raising the amount of income individuals would have to pay social security on. That way people with large incomes would be paying in more. They would also get larger payments. But with our present tax on social security we would recapture a lot of that. Right now many of the large company executives that get big bonuses in stock options that were in depressed prices and now have gone up are making millions and billions. An increase in taxes on those high incomes is what we need to get the country on a paying basis. That is not apt to happen because we have too many big money people making our laws. They are taking care of themselves and their rich friends that are putting up the money to keep them in office.

Of course, if we could find productive jobs for the 9.7% of the people that are out of a job, they would be paying taxes and that could bail the government out.

There's no way we can keep spending more than our income and survive very long.

Housing and Money

The money is about to run out for the government housing program that has been helping the housing industry at least temporarily.It should temporarily because the government has been selling the houses to low income people without any down payment. Seems to me that was what got the housing industry into trouble in the first place,Selling houses to people that could’nt afford to pay for them . For every house they buy we are adding to the national debt.And if we don’t find jobs for these people the government is apt to end up with A lot of houses.Seems to me the sensible thing to do rather then forclose on all these houses would have been to let the people stay in their houses as long as they maintained them and paid A reasonable interest on their debt. If necessay the government could have given them A temporary loan to pay the interest .That in turn should have kept the financial institutions from going bankrupt.People tend to forget that president Bush asked congress several times to create an overseeing board to check up on the big financial institutions But the democratic congress never did anything about it. Now Obama and the democratic congress are trying to do the same thing and the republicans are dragging their feet.We need to check up on these big institutions and the people that are running them so they don’t con the public out of all that money while they pocket millions. Its criminal for these people to make more in one day then the working people that are producing the wealth in this country earn in A year.We need some laws to level the playing field. My opinion by John Zilverberg

Language Problems

I see where someone introduced A bill in congress that courts should furnish interpreters for people that appear in court and do not understand english.English should be the official language of the U. S. And the congress should have made it so long ago.all official government business and documents should be in english only.If any one needs an interpreter to understand the english language in the courts or anywhere else it should be up to the person needing the interpreter to furnish them or if the courts or anyone else furnishes the interpreter it should be up to the person needing the interpreter to pay all the costs of his services. It would be perty hard for the court or any business to have an interpreter for all languages as there might be 40 or more people with different languages to show up needing an interpreter.If these people want to live in the U. S. They better learn the english language It would cost the government billions of dollars if they had to paint all official documents in multiple languages and the same would be true for any other business or organization. One common language would help unify the country. If different ethnic groups were to speak different languages in different areas that could lead to disagreements between the different ethnic groups and could have serious consequences. MY opinion by John Zilverberg

Rediculous Ads

Some of these rediculas ads you see on the media these days by law firms trying to bilk the public out of their money are A disgrace and ought to be outlawed. They try to make you believe you are entitled to compensation and they will get it for you ,For A price, one example is the ones relating to asbestas Mesathelioma. Then about reverse mortgages. They make it sound like A great deal and all the wonderful things you can do with the money. What they don’t tell you is the with A reverse mortgage you are selling the equity in your home and when the mortgage comes due you will no longer have A home .another is where they have the people telling how much money they saved from what they owed the I.R.S.in taxes.They are talking about thousands of dollars. If these people are telling the truth there is something drasticaly wrong with the system or the people that are running it. What ever these people owe in taxes that is what they should pay . Nobody should be getting any special deals.If they cheated on their taxes and owed that much they should be in jail ,Not saving money.If these kind of deals are really going on some people must be getting A big rake off and we better have an investigation. My opinion by John Zilverberg.

Russian Agreement

Obama has signed an agreement with Russia to reduce our arsenal of nuclear weapons as A means to reduce the chances of A nuclear war which sounds good . But with these rouge nations developing nuclear weapons I am not sure we should be reducing ours. Roosevelt said the best way to keep out of trouble is to carry A big stick. The fact that we have them might deter some other nation from attacking us.And we better keep our missel defense system in good order.It would be great to have A peaceful world .But as long as there has been people on this world they have been fighting for one reason or another,In some cases it is religion others it is energy or greed. And economic conditions are not helping.with our medications improving people are living longer. A lot of countries are being over populated and can not produce enough food for the people. If we could eliminate wars we could take care of A lot of people with the money we spend on maintaining our armies and their equipment.And there in no reason why some people should be making millions and billions while others are starving or living in poverty. We could do A lot to adjust that if we would adjust our tax system to level the playing field. My opinion by John Zilverberg