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Twitter weekly updates by crimulus for 2010-02-28

28 Feb
  • RT @TheOnion Sports: Senator Dikembe Mutombo Blocks Record Amount Of Legislation http://onion.com/a0JFSG #
  • Looks like another exceedingly windy night … #
  • RT @Funfacts The oldest surviving true tweet is from founder Jack Dorsey – “inviting coworkers” dated March 21st, 2006 at 1.02pm. #
  • Tonight’s feature: Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry — very good film! (Katharine Hepburn, Harold Gould) http://abv8.me/28c #
  • You elected the right type of guy, Mass: http://abv8.me/28a “Brown Helps Democrats Break GOP Filibuster” @foxnewspolitics #
  • has been tweeting 0 years, 327 days, 22 hours, 31 minutes, 40 seconds since Mar 31, 2009. How about you? http://bit.ly/73yAZv #twtstdt #
  • RT @factlets Harvard scientists slowed light to 38 mph by shooting it through supercooled matter. http://factlets.info/SlowLight #
  • Just watched Mach 2 http://abv8.me/289 … perfect notch in the bedpost of bad movies I’ve been carving this week. :-D #
 
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Tax dollars should not allow a U.S. official to make MORE than their salary

28 Jan

This is a cause that I have come up with, and I think it a noble one.  Get more details on the Facebook group page, but the jist is:

U.S. taxpayer dollars should never allow a U.S. official (Representative, Senator, President, judge, or anyone else whose salary is paid by public taxes) to make MORE than the salary for his/her position.

Example: If a Senator’s 2009 salary is $174k, but he/she made $80k on a real estate deal in 2009, they would only be allowed to keep $94k in wages from the federal government.

President Obama said in his State of the Union speech last night:

Families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions. The federal government should do the same.

I think my idea is a very simple way for him and for Congress (and others) to demonstrate that.  Check it out.

 
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