<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just ask yourself this, IF you had the same kind of injuries that Congresswoman <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Giffords had, and no federal insurance like her and her husband have, would you be able to pay for it? Would you </span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">still be alive?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Wayne</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font><div><div>On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:46 AM, lfalen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Congress should be on the same plan as the rest of americans. No one should be on the Cadillac plans.<br>Roger<br><br>-----Original message-----<br>From: "Gier, Nicholas" <a href="mailto:NGIER@uidaho.edu">NGIER@uidaho.edu</a><br>Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:43:32 -0700<br>To: "lfalen" <a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>, <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] KEEP THIS GOING PLEASE<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Roger,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What medical system do the rest of us belong to???? Did we suddenly (gasp!) become a single payer health country? How about all of us joining the Cadillac options the Congress enjoys?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nick<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> on behalf of lfalen<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Tue 6/28/2011 10:09 AM<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [Vision2020] Fw: Fw: Fwd: Fw: KEEP THIS GOING PLEASE<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----Original message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: rafalen <a href="mailto:rafalen@turbonet.com">rafalen@turbonet.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:25:56 -0700<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: <a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Fw: Fwd: Fw: KEEP THIS GOING PLEASE<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----Original message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: Parkins <a href="mailto:bkparkins@tds.net">bkparkins@tds.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:35:33 -0700<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: undisclosed-recipients:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Fwd: Fw: KEEP THIS GOING PLEASE<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> I have cleaned this e-mail of all other names, sending it to you in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> hopes that you will keep it going and keep it clean. This is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> something I believe in, and I hope you all read it all the way through.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> before cell phones, etc.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> likewise.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> In three days, most people in The United States of America will have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Congressional Reform Act of 2011<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 1. Term Limits.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 12 years only, one of the possible options below.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> A. Two Six-year Senate terms<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> B. Six Two-year House terms<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> C.OneSix-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 2. *No Tenure*/ *No Pension*.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> A Congressman collects a salary while in officeand receives *no<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> pay*when they are out of office.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Americans do.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> in the same health care system as the American people.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> American people.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> effective 1/1/12.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> The American people *did not* make this contract with Congressmen.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s),<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> *then go home* and *back to work*.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> message. Maybe it is time.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /LET'S FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree, pass it on. //<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /You are one of my 20+. Please keep it going.//<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /"The darkness hides the true size of fears and lies and regrets,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> The truth is they are more shadow than reality, So, they seem bigger<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> in the dark! When the light shines into the places where they live<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> inside you, you start to see them for what they are."/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>