got an email today about some national debt reduction campaign wherein the membership is being asked the following:<\/p>\n
The National Debt Reduction campagin is on it’s way, you are needed to make this happen by CONCLAVE 2007. Here is the PLAN:<\/em><\/p>\n this campaign is coming out of left field. it wasn’t part of paul’s platform while he was running for office and it’s never been on his calls to action in the year+ he’s been in office.my first question is what’s the overall debt reduction plan. if step #1 was asking the membership for more money, then i say we don’t give a penny. we shouldn’t be in the habit of writing blank checks. have you ever tried asking IHQ about what happened to the money we generated for hurricane katrina victims? if they choose not to ignore you, you’ll be treated like you’re asking for the nuclear launch codes. no one can\/will tell you where it went.<\/p>\n additionally, i’d love to know what this money is earmarked for. i want to know what this money can and cannot be used for and how they’re going to ensure that it doesn’t get reallocated by the GB for something else. ideally, reallocation would require conclave approval and the GB can’t make that change. what debt is it being used for and what’s the schedule to pay it down?<\/p>\n furthermore, what’s going on on the national level to reduce expenditures? how about starting with how much economic wisdom is exercised in having headquarters in DC? $50k was “appropriated” to this blue ribbon commission. what the hell have they done? take it back. conclave LA netted less than the individual yearly maximum 401k contribution. that’s a horrible return on investment as i’m sure we poured in a whole lot more time and money to only make such a paltry sum.<\/p>\n lastly, there’s the issue of someone who should be behind bars for having stolen whole lotta bucks from the org yet he’s walking the streets, employed and his wages are ungarnished. it’s been years since his crime, yet we haven’t gone after him or the people who knew about it and did nothing. settle that and maybe i’ll put $5 on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" got an email today about some national debt reduction campaign wherein the membership is being asked the following: The National Debt Reduction campagin is on it’s way, you are needed to make this happen by CONCLAVE 2007. Here is the PLAN: $200.00 Each chapter $200.00 Each Life Member $200.00 Each DSC Member $200.00 Each Past … Read moreNational Debt Reduction Campaign?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n