ACV Democratic News: CONGRESSIONAL REFORM ACT of 2017 by WARREN BUFFET

A Billionaire ($63.5 Billion) with a sense of humor and also a plan to Reform Congress

Warren Buffett is a very famous American Businessman, investor as well as philanthropist. He is known the be the most successful investor in the world. Born August30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska US he has become a global personality.

He is the chairman, CEO and the largest shareholder of the Berkshire Hathaway.   He is consistently ranked in the list of World’s wealthiest people in fact he was the World’s wealthiest person in 2008.   In the year 2012 Time named him one of the most influential people globally.

He is often referred to as the Wizard of Omaha and is noted for his knack of value investing and for being thrifty and economical despite his immense wealth.   Not only is he wealthy and influential but he is also a notable philanthropist and has pledged that he will give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes via the Gates Foundation.   He is also active in contributing to political causes.

He was the second of three children and was the only son in the family.   His dad was elected to the first of four terms in United States Congress.   From a very young age he showed interest in business and investment.   He started his business by selling chewing gums, Coca Cola bottles or weekly magazines door to door.

His interest in stock market and investing started way back when he was in school. He graduated with Bachelor in Science in Business administration from University of Nebraska.   He was rejected from Harvard but after he learned that Benjamin Graham taught in Columbia Business school he enrolled there and he got his Master of Science in Economics.

Here is His Plan, copy and pass on if You'd like.

CONGRESSIONAL REFORM ACT of 2017 by WARREN BUFFET

Salary of retired US Presidents .. . . . .. . . . . .. . $180,000 FOR LIFE.

Salary of House/Senate members .. . . . .. . . . $174,000 FOR LIFE. This is stupid

Salary of Speaker of the House .. . . . .. . . . . $223,500 FOR LIFE. This is really stupid

Salary of Majority / Minority Leaders . . .. . . . . $193,400 FOR LIFE. Stupid

Average Salary of a teacher . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. .$40,065

Average Salary of a deployed Soldier . . .. . . .. $38,000

Here’s where the cuts should be made!

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, talks about the debt ceiling:

"I could end the deficit in five minutes," Buffet told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election".

The 26th Amendment ( granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds ) took only three months and eight days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure.

WARREN BUFFET WOULD LIKE EVERYONE WHO READS THIS TO SHARE . LET IT GO VIRAL!!
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 2017

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 Congressional (retirement) funds move to Social Security 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 3/1/17. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.

Congress 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 go 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. It's time!

THAT IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

Here are some of Buffett's best quips.

Why Does The Orange Con Man Lie So Much?

During the first 2016 (presidential) debate between Hillary (Clinton) and Donald (Trump), the Huffington Post kept a tally of the lies that each candidate told in their responses to Lester Holt's questions. The final tally? DJT, 16; Hillary C, 0(Zero).   Since that point a large percentage of the assertions of DJT have been lies.

When we encounter someone who tells a blatant lie--and insists on it even in the face of clear evidence that it is a lie--many of us likely wonder what makes a person like that tick.

Everyday Health offers this MD-vetted explanation about pathological and compulsive lying, beginning with the observation that no one quite knows what drives the people who do it: Experts don’t know for sure what drives the troublesome lying.   They know impulsivity and a need to impress could be linked to the habit.

Psychology Today explains that pathological lying isn't an official diagnosis. Instead: Intentional dissimulation...is associated with a range of diagnoses, such as antisocial, borderline and narcissistic personality disorders.   When it comes to compulsive liars, says Charles Ford, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama Birmingham, "words seem to flow out of their mouths without them thinking about it." Ford, the author of Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! The Psychology of Deceit, says that pathological liars may slide easily from the notion that something could have happened to the conviction that it did. When pressed, many will admit what they are saying isn't true.

According to Vox, Donald Trump has "buried America in lies." Vox writer Dara Lind notes that this avalanche of falsehoods contains many unique inventions: Even more alarming, while Trump often repeats some of his lies from one day to the next, most of the lies Dale recorded were just told once.   Over the nine days Dale’s recorded so far, Donald Trump has told a total of 64 unique lies.

That analysis concludes that we can't really understand why Trump lies like he does: If you try to dive into the reasons Trump lies, you’ve already lost. It grants his lies the dignity of a strategy.   The truth is that, by all appearances, Trump seems to lie whenever it suits him.

And Live Science's take on pathological lying is consonant with this conclusion:   "Pathological liars have a pattern of frequent, repeated and excessive lies or lying behavior for which there is no apparent benefit or gain for the liar," said Charles Dike, clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University and medical director of the Whiting Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital.

Never before has anyone this sick made it to the white house.   How did this get by the republican voters who squeaked this con man thru the electorial college and into the role of commander and chief.   How did the Democratic candidate fail to take advantage of this sickness and win the election?

Every time you poke at his self esteem he'll take the bait and tell a huge lie. He can't resist.   He falls in the trap every time.

To understand the mind of a fake, consider what lying does for the liar.   Deceit as a means to an end--like lying to get a job--is easy to comprehend.   Much harder to spot is lying for primary gains: deceptions that create a different sense of self without any immediate benefit.   It has to do with self-esteem. Trump wants to be like someone else because he isn't happy with himself.

Donald (Trump) lies like he tweets: erratically, at all hours, sometimes in malice and sometimes in self-contradiction, and sometimes without any apparent purpose at all.   He lies even though he knows he is on video tape saying what he lies and denies saying. He lies as if he thinks his tweets disappear, as if no one has the right to challenge him.   This is a sick man and electing him president was a huge mistake made by GOP voters.   A price for this must be paid if Trump lasts for the next 4 years.

The Trumpster will scream “wrong” when he hears his own quotes. His own lawyers met him in pairs to counteract his lying, court documents show. He has invented false statistics, fictional videos and sex tapes and a nonexistent man named “John Miller” to talk about his sex life.   Months of fact-checking, however, reveal methods of (Trump’s) guide to success through lying.

For decades, DonnieT has described America and its leaders in apocalyptic terms. He thought Ronald Reagan weak and “a disaster”, he lambasted George HW Bush and Bill Clinton’s policies, and after supporting George W Bush’s Iraq invasion, quickly dismissed that war as “a mess” and said he was always against that war.

In (Trump’s) world, crime is always rising (the national rate has fallen for decades), and African Americans are “living in hell” (they are not).   Migrants are flooding in (more Mexicans are leaving than arriving), and they bring violence (there is no evidence that they do).   Civilian and military leaders are always clueless (Trump received five deferments from Vietnam), except when they love him.   We have no idea who refugees or undocumented migrants are, and they take our jobs (we know very well who they are; they include his wife).   Dimwitted GOP voters accepted all these Trump lies as truth and put the con man in office.

Trump’s vision of the US has been, for decades, one of dystopia – he even described the 1990s as a crisis worse than the Great Depression.   But amid all this desolation Trump gains three things.   He fuels doubt and fear, leaving people vulnerable; he denigrates his opposition en masse, blaming the world on them; and he raises himself up above the nonexistent wreckage.

Like a man who once took a joke about the size of his hands too hard, Trump spends a lot of time trying to look as large as possible, from his never-proven $10bn worth (Forbes estimates $3.7bn) to crowds at his rallies and his success in meaningless internet polls.

(Trump) valued a New York golf course at $50m in one document and at $1.4m in a court filing (when he sued to pay lower taxes).

(Trump) has also falsely bragged of endorsements from federal agencies and claimed “many environmental awards”, and tried the ploy in reverse: he has called the millions his father gave him as “a small loan” and portrayed his $916m loss in 1995 as an example of “smart” tax avoidance.

This sort of exaggeration is a common sales technique: overstate the value of a product to make it more attractive and assume it will be bargained downward.   In February (Trump) confessed “everything’s negotiable” about his statements, then quickly said building a wall on the southern border was “not negotiable” – the equivalent of a liar saying: “Everything I say is false, but not that.”

Whenever in doubt, He attacks what he calls “the dishonest media”, accusing reporters (without evidence) of bias, inaccuracy and a failure to show the size of his rallies.   He ignores that reporters quote him extensively, call his campaign for comment and interview his supporters.

(Trump’s) most famous false conspiracy, about Barack Obama’s birthplace and who started birtherism, is only one of many.

There was Ted Cruz’s father and JFK’s assassin, drawn from a tabloid with ties to Trump; the climate change “hoax” that was “invented by the Chinese”; the Muslims who cheered September 11; the vaccines that cause autism;   the Miss Universe “sex tape”; the political correctness of San Bernardino; the secret Muslim president and his secret terror agenda; and the antisemitism-tinged plot of bankers and the media.   There is no lie too big for Him to tell and no shortage of dim witted voters to buy it all, hook, line and sinker.

When cornered by his own recorded words or something he doesn’t know, (Trump) often lies with blunt denials – “wrong!” – or variations of the phrases “that’s very important” or “we’ll look into it”.

He also tries to wriggle out of uncomfortable situations with this tactic, most notably when he claimed ignorance of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who has professed approval for his policies, and white supremacists.   (Trump) had disavowed Duke a few days earlier and denounced him in 2000, but in February he refused to condemn like-minded supporters, saying: “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”

On the edge of pointless self-inflation and denial is His fixation with Vladimir Putin, whom he has claimed to know “very well”, to have spoken with “indirectly and directly”, and to have never met and “know nothing” about.   (Trump) also falsely insists that Putin called him “a genius” (Putin called him “flamboyant”).

(Trump) sprinkles misleading statistics into speeches, including on the murder rate, African American unemployment, poverty among Hispanic Americans, the deficit and taxes.   He claimed that Obama “founded” Isis and that Clinton supports immigration reform became “open borders” .