I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE THE PETS OF THE POLITICIANS

LET US SHARE THE REWARDS AND PENALTIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT'S ACTIONS WITH THOSE WHO CREATE THEM - THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT TO TIE POLITICIANS CURRENT AND RETIRED PAY AND BENEFITS TO PERFORMANCE.

This is a non-partisan idea for the betterment of America because it apprears that the politicians feel that we are their PETS = People Eating The Scraps and they enjoy a POLITICAL EXEMPTION.

Please promote this idea should you approve of it with posters and any other method of communication which points out,

"WE ARE NOT THEIR PETS - PAY POLITICIANS WHAT THEY ARE WORTH!"

We interview our politicians for a position on America's management team during the campaign

The voters review the candidates for the position in light of what they hear from the candidate as well as what they learn about the candidate

The employers = voters select one of the job applicants by vote and send the winner off to Washington where the winner in many cases forgets who employed him/her and goes about their agenda regardless of the actual effect on America. It does not matter if they do it out of ignorance and/or idealistic concepts or they just want to build power and enrich themselves. The cost of the damage done by the poor performers is paid by the voters now and in the future.

In the business world, a managment level person receives bonuses for good performance and gets penalized or fired for bad performance. There is a very basic relationship when a company's survival is tied to performance. A joint venture partner will often receive compensation for operating a venture, but not share in returns until the original investment is returned to the investors and then the profit is shared. The politicians do not appear to have any concept of this structure which works well as long as the business is not on life support from an outside source.

The politicians have a POLITICIAN EXEMPTION which allows them to put the country in the toilet and do anything which they can get away with to enrich or empower themselves and they still receive full benefits. We pay our politicians salaries in excess of $150,000.00 and give them excellent health care plus a good retirement. They receive this compensation package plus a number of other benefits, including connections and influence to increase their power and wealth regardless of the damage which they do to our country.

Why in the world would we not make them accountable by having them share in what they create???? I have started a cause on Facebook at

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/339555?m=96aaaf39

REWARD PEFORMANCE - PENALIZE DAMAGE

Reward our government people for success and penalize them for failure - HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!!!


This cause DOES NOT COLLECT MONEY and has the brief statement of
Positions:

1. At least the president, vice president, senators and representatives, referred to as "the Group" create what we, the people, live with in America


2. Create categories such as fiscal, health, +++ to monitor and parameters to measure performance of the legislature in managing our country


3. Make salaries and retirement a function of a formula using the parameters to reward or punish performance


4. Create a tiered relationship between the health care which the Group receives and the American people receive


5. Create an IRS provision to apply a surtax to assets acquired after taking office at a rate inversely related to the performance from 0% to 50%

I am very preliminary in this and I am a lightweight who does not possess the time, money or expertise to pull this off by myself, but it is so obvious to me that our country has allowed our politicians to be the EXEMPT CLASS and they distract with their class warfare and partisan bickering while they enjoy their EXEMPT BENEFITS.



How many politicians who created our current economic, health and education problems are unemployed? What is the status of the investigations into the FannieMae/FreddieMac debacle that makes Enron look like chump change and and was a part of the fiasco which put America on the down slide?



Do they know that we are manipulateable fools by the results of their enjoyment of the exemption?



I will better define what and how we measure performance and develop formulas as this proposal evolves.I just did this today because I have been whining to friends about this concept forever and watching America making good time in the wrong direction. I decided that it is time to quit whining and do something or shut up and go along.



The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Albert Einstein



Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein“



Whoever you are, you who are hearing me now, I am speaking to whatever living remnant is left uncorrupted within you, to the remnant of the human, to your mind, and I say: There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.” -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand"



It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." --novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)



My intro comment on Facebook was: I am tired of listening to me whine about the performance of the managers of our country and watching the Big Business/Big Union/Politicians and people like Soros who profit from economic problems build their money machines while they instigate aurguments between the Left, Right, Illegal Aliens, Space Aliens and whatever other diversion which they come up with to keep us from seeing what they are doing. I have no idea how I am going to do this, but I love my country more than I fear the consequences and it is time for me to do something. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.



I offered my factsforreality.net website out a long time ago because I didn't have what I needed to do it justice. That is another project with two components:
1. Letters to grandchildren asking them how they like the country which we left them and telling them that there were two schools of thought on how it should be governed - I hope that I was just a paranoid old man.

2. Facts only to define and measure - there is to much obfiscation and Orwellian redefinition to the point that a lot of us distrust our government who no longer views us as their employer. We are not lab rats for experiments. I want to define areas which we need to understand and monitor facts, especially data to correct our course should we steer off course from our objective.



We end up with the government which we deserve if we do not do all that we can to gather information, analyze it objectively and discuss it with people of all views so that we question what both they and we believe. The real world not rooting for our team is required to keep America great.