Monday, April 2, 2012

In The Chambers of Congress and Senate too…


"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," Warren 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 3 months & 8 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.
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.
       

CONGRESIONAL REFORM ACT OF 2011/2012

  • No Tenure/No Pension. 
  • A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office.
  • Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
    All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system 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.
  • Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
  • Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise, regardless of the economic reality of those they serve..
  • Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
  •  Congress loses their current health care system and
     participates in the same health care system as the American people.
  • Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
  • All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 1/1/12. 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 back to work. So they can enjoy the benefits and/or hardships resulting from the very laws they passed... just like everyone else.
 If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people with this message then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive it.

Don't you think it's time?
I do and this is why this is being reproduced in this blog. Usually, I stay away from hard politics, but when I see the abuse that is committed on a daily basis by those who have been elected to uphold the good and the rights of the common citizen, I do indeed believe it is high time to introduce fundamental changes to the Chambers that have become a lifelong income and benefits guarantee, even for those whose service has been so bad, that their own constituents vote them out of office after one measly term.

To the above, I would add that no one should be eligible for more than 12 years of continued service in the case of Senators (two terms) and 8 years in the case of Congress (4 terms). Although there have been those who do serve and do their best throughout many years of re-elections, these almost automatic re-election campaigns must be stopped. There is an equally great number, if not higher, of public servants who after being firmly ensconced in their seats, become more worried about their own and their cronies’ financial gains than the possible gains of those whom they serve and, supposedly, safeguard. Their distance from the common person grows bigger with each term. This is not the end for which those seats are intended.

They (Senate, Congress and the Presidency)are intended as seats of power to be used on behalf of The People (as in “We, The People”) they serve; some of our elected servants seem to think it is the other way around.

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