Contract with Congress Petition

Overall you have done a great job expressing the reason for the anger so many Americans have with regard to the actions taken by Congress and their attitude of superiority over We the People.

I do have a few suggestions that might increase the possibility that this petition be successful. These are given in the spirit of cooperation and teamwork, not as blatant criticism against your good work.

1. I feel the petition would be acceptable to more people if it specifically addressed just the points that are the most dangerous to America. All the points are good and of sound logic, but not all of them are universally acceptable.
Examples: Item 2 would not be necessary if Congress limited the useless foreign aid policies now in place. To advocate adding another tax of any kind on the people when their money is uselessly wasted is too much and sure reason for many to reject this petition.
Item 5 goes against what an ever increasing number of Americans feel about our efforts in Iraq. Again, it is an item with too much controversy to be in a petition asking Congress to act on.
Item 8 is already addressed in the Free Trade Agreements we have with several countries. If Congress would pass the ones already agreed to by us and several countries this would be solved.
Item 9 is, once again, asking Congress to investigate the free market when they have shown they are incompetent at it. Stockholders have the power and ability to control the Board of Directors of their companies and they should do any investigations required.
Items 11, 12, 13, & 15 are issues that need to be handled in the near future, not necessarily by Congress though, and are not so dangerous as to be acceptable by a good number of people. To include them is to increase the petition's overall acceptance and its possibility of failure.

Last point: Before distributing the petition for signatures, allow it to be proofread and corrected for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and overall presentation. Not to diminish your own abilities, the eyes of a trusted third party can be an improvement in any writing. We want this to be accepted and signed by everyone including doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, and machinists, many of whom would discover these defects and reject the petition out of spite instead of content. Everyone is succeptible to error, and all books, engineering blueprints, stageplays, movie scripts, news articles, and every other document meant for acceptance by others is routinely proofed and edited, sometimes more than once or even twice.

Great job. Thank you. If I may, I offer my services as a proofreader, or in anyway capacity that you would desire.

Glenn Flowers

The last sentence above should read "is to decrease the petition's overall acceptance and increase its possibility of failure."
(A lack of proofing my own material, Hehehe...)

Last point: Before distributing the petition for signatures, allow it to be proofread and corrected for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and overall presentation. Not to diminish your own abilities, the eyes of a trusted third party can be an improvement in any writing. We want this to be accepted and signed by everyone including doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, and machinists, many of whom would discover these defects and reject the petition out of spite instead of content. Everyone is succeptible to error, and all books, engineering blueprints, stageplays, movie scripts, news articles, and every other document meant for acceptance by others is routinely proofed and edited, sometimes more than once or even twice.

Again, a great job. Thank you. If I may, I offer my services as a proofreader, or in anyway capacity that you would desire.

Glenn Flowers