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1. No Tenure / No Pension.
   A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are 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 looses 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 are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen 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.

The link to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows that over the past 30 years the gap between the very rich and everyone else has more than tripled. The question is "at what point does everyone else say enough is enough".
The recent downgrade of the US from AAA to AA+ should have resulted in an increase in interest rates, which is what, I would have thought, the very rich (enemy) would have wanted, after deliberately taking the world economies to the brink and back. Of course, the US Government has promised to keep the rates low to help the economy. How long can they hold out? A week ? A month ? Certainly not til 2013.

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The second scrap of paper:

The colored marks are not from the original.
Green - numbers
Blue - occurrence of NCBE.
Red - possible date format Day, Weekday/day of week, month and Year.
Khaki - occurrences of SE

Link: http://www.kmbc.com/news/27371040/detail.html

Can you decrypt this message? The FBI cannot.

The colored marks are not from the original.
Green - occurrences of TFR or TRX.
Red - occurrences of NE or SE (could be directions?)
Blue - occurrences of NCBE
Khaki - numbers

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A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.