I started working on this on September 18, 2011, and see it more necessary now than ever before, in light of Benghazi, IRS, and the DOJ AP and FoxNews James Rosen scandals....
Remember this (posted by the White House April 11, 2012)?
Well Mr. President, what about those in government who aren't “doing their fair share” and “playing by the same set of rules” according to law and the Constitution, those getting bonuses, benefits, and job security in excess of Warren Buffett's secretary like Lois Lerner (and many others) on paid administrative leave? Warren Buffett's secretary would not be on administrative leave if she targeted a group who spoke up because Mr. Buffett, unlike the government, would be sued and lose millions due to his secretary's actions. These government employees don't deserve bonuses – the Honor of serving the American People and being trusted to do so should be enough – though some union, whose trustees like managing hundreds of billions of dollars on the stock market, may have made sure this provision was in a union contract to help gain that pension to manage by unionizing a particular group of government employees, irrespective of the fact it isn't their contract right when they violated the terms of their office, a breach of contract! Lois Lerner and every similarly situated “government employee” is the subject here, Mr. President, they do not deserve ANY of these benefits, and your Buffett rule IS redistribution of wealth TO THE GOVERNMENT to afford the Lois Lerners! It is this ever spend-happy attitude of government that has caused all Americans to see “their security erode over the last few decades.” (See “Bill Gates hits 100 Billion Dollar Mark, More or Less, published July 17, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/17/ and compare to today named “Richest Man in the World” 2013 with 72 billion dollars, http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/, adjusted for inflation, Bill Gates networth should be 139 billion, meaning” Bill Gates and those horrible “rich people” lost 50% of their networth since 1999 solely due to inflation and loss of purchasing power. Try this with $100 to see for yourself http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/.)
Thus, to and for We, the American People, I give, Mr. President, Speaker Boehner, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, “The Lerner Rule, The Bureaucrat Accountability & Responsibility Act”:
“Whereas the funds in the U.S. Treasury continue to belong to the People after collected;
“Whereas there is an unrebuttable presumption that government has not always spent this money wisely;
“Whereas the elected members of Government serve at the pleasure of the people;
“Whereas bureaucrats and other administrative personnel, or entities composed of the same, are appointed by elected members of Government and charged with a function of government from time to time;
“Whereas these bureaucrats are in all cases, that among these are: Government, non-Government, pseudo-government, Quasi-Government, and/or Non-Government(al) Organization, operating in a form of legal government agency whether an agency with funding subject to legislative provision, and appropriation, executive budget, or otherwise;
“Whereas, numerous examples demonstrate a need for accountability and responsibility on the part of public works and their workers who are members of a Public Worker Union acting in such agency, that according to the records of use of public funding 1) Department of Energy failed to stop Solyndra, a solar panel maker from losing $535,000,000; 2) the IRS sent tax refunds to dead people; and 3) the Department of Justice oversaw a program where weapons were purchased by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms with U.S. Treasury funds and these weapons were then given to Mexican drug cartels by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms who lost track of them; and 4) that FannieMae & FreddieMac, acting in a “Quasi-Government” capacity placed trillions of dollars in jeopardy through Mortgage Backed Securities, that could still default, in an amount in excess of $500,000,000,000,000; and,
“Whereas bureaucratic agency, established by public funding, provides no greater power than those powers granted to members of the elected Government Representative individual and/or body;
“And, further, We the People do hereby find that the death of an American Ambassador, his aide, and 2 former members of the United States military, in and of itself as an event is significant; that administrative systems put in place by the State Department failed to assure the lives of Americans put in harm's way by the President of the United States and resulting failure of most of this administration to come forward immediately with true, correct, and complete information that would help explain this event has created another significant event, one of incompetence that liquefies all authority of government in this specific area, and generally has resulted in questioning government use and management of information, both on the night of the horrific Benghazi Attack and failed Department of State Policy and the mis-use of information after the fact that was presented as explanation for the direct assault on our diplomats, their aides, and any who helped them, even if they put their job on the line, for We the People do hereby Proclaim that it is significant, that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, who were on the ground and were murdered along with Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith on September 11, 2012, acted against orders to stand down and not interfere, that these actions are testimony to the absolute contrary of what the American People were told happened and was the cause of the Benghazi Attack, and this is what difference it makes, that We the People demand this testimony be considered and denounce in whole the actions of an administration, a branch of government and its bureaucracy whose communications demonstrate they were more concerned about appearances of the situation in the Press in the days following Benghazi than the gravity of there being American deaths, and the gravity of the actions of those who died;
“We the People find that the following events affected and continue to affect the body politic, both in immediately recognizing our unalienable Right to Freedom of Expression and how those in government by all forms of agency view and treat We the People if we happen to disagree with government's direction and assert our Freedom of Expression:
“1) The IRS targeting Americans exemplifies when an agency has devolved, by bureaucratic routine, into a culture of assumed color of authority with a presumption overall, and whose agents assume they are protected and cannot be fired, that We the People find is due to the aforementioned administrative agency insulation of bureaucrats and their bureaucracy, evidenced by the mere notion that any would think to take up the task to identify Americans in an arbitrary and capricious manner that defines them as political opponents to the policies of the President of the United States and then to act upon this definition in abuse of a presumption of sole authority over those who've placed trust in them; that this act is a heinous assault on the limits placed on Congress by the First Amendment under the idea of origination and use of laws as a power to silence dissent to the actions of the National Government;
“2) The Department of Justice confiscating 2 months of phone logs of members of the Institutional American Press known as the Associated Press and also found to have issued a search warrant some 2 years ago to confiscate information from James Rosen, a Fox News Washington, D.C. Reporter, that was named as a co-conspirator where the warrant was signed by the Attorney General of the United States, both of which were never notified they were being investigated by the government, and that this event continues to reveal further intrusions into the Press, that We the People find is due to the aforementioned administrative agency insulation of bureaucrats and their bureaucracy, evidenced by the mere notion that anyone in the Department of Justice would name a member of the Press as a co-conspirator to leaking government information in applying for a search warrant. The Press is not employed by the government and is charged with the job of dissemination of information by its mere existence as a private entity, their duty if they wish to claim protection under the limits imposed by the First Amendment, is to disseminate information whether or not it is consistent with what the National Government wants We the People of the nation to have an opportunity to become knowledgeable of, and it is this objectivity that is intended to assure the Press is a watchdog over government in all its forms in America;
“Whereas We the People come to the conclusion that in both the financial and First Amendment abuses herein stated that in all cases it is as though the bureaucrat is acting with an air of being protected and immune from any accountability for their actions, as it is matter of fact that regulation and authority of agency, jointly and severally, derive from Legislation passed by Congress, or regulatory authority that was granted to the President of the United States by Congress, and signed into law by the President of the United States, and that there is an unrebuttable presumption that any agent(s) of any agency who carry out any scheme whatsoever, whether jointly, separately, and/or in concert with others anywhere in the world, is a wrongful act to represent the authority of government in such agency at any and all times of doing so, that these people are not acting as extensions of representative government but instead are knowingly making a direct assault upon the very foundation of our Republic as their actions represent a foreign erroneous government interest in counter-distinction to those that American government is representing, these bureaucrats are asserting the presumption of an inherent government interest not to be limited over and above the American government principle of the Will of the People limiting government, as though the Constitution doesn't exist, an instrument opening with and ratified by the right of the People, whose productivity happens to be paying the bureaucrat's annually increasing paycheck, their benefits, bonuses, and retirement plan – the debt that ever-growing government bureaucracy has accumulated and calls the United States Treasury. Our “limit” is the very Constitutional bar, a standard that, when crossed, results in accountability of government to us that We the People hereby demand in the form of loss of compensation to the bureaucrat in direct proportion to severity of violation of trust using a presumption of gross negligence tantamount-to-fraud standard that is in an amount no less than 3 times the amount of all sums paid to such bureaucrat and 10 years in prison for each incident;
“We the People find that it is this erroneous principle of government acting for its interest and no other that has resulted in a government of bureaucrats with a blatant disregard for the American People irrespective of us as a whole being the entire authority upon which all representatives at all levels of government are to act, their entire authority deriving from the idea they represent us. And We the People hereby find that those who act in such agency or promote that they hold an authoritative administrative capacity that is over the People and denies recourse by legal means and/or representative government process have been wrongfully insulated by Congress, the President and the United States Supreme Court from being subject to the actual liability for their actions to the very people who they affect and that this results in an assumed authority to affect commerce by their actions without the responsibility that comes with making a decision that affects other People's money and unalienable Right of, and over, their own Lives; that those people hired who become employees of government, as described above, has resulted in a government filled with employees who have no respect for who is paying their paycheck, their boss, We the People; and,
“Therefore, We, The People, do hereby submit “The Lerner Rule: The Bureaucrat Accountability & Responsibility Act” for immediate ratification by the House and Senate, and signed shortly thereafter (not to exceed 10 days) by the President of the United States, in an effort to reinstate accountable government for the “consent of the governed” will no longer be ignored as the requisite standard of legitimacy for American Government, a standard established by the Declaration of Independence.
“Additionally, our act, in order to help stem the abuses of Public Employee Union Pension Pools, proposes that the retirement funds of the financially deepest pocket Public Employee Union, who oversees an administrative and negotiating capacity affecting the bureaucrat, be subject to lien, levy and/or whatever means necessary to effectuate full collection of moneys lost when a public employee member of their union, has affected, influenced, or otherwise been involved in any way to affect or influence a decision, that led to a loss of funds and caused the United States Government to be liable for their fiduciary obligations in managing the United States Treasure in a manner consistent with the Public Good for We the People.
“This Act is authorized under the “general Welfare” clause, in assuring the people of the United States of America hold their government in high esteem.”
Thank you for endeavoring to read this, God Bless you,
Toddy Littman
