Subject: Congressional Reform

[LiberalArkie]

I had a friend send this to me... what do you think?


This is bipartisan in nature and is going to both Democrat and Republican. We should all seriously consider helping with the change suggested below. This is short so please read it all the way through and then forward. You will be glad you did.


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, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.


Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.


I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.


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.


Congressional Reform Act of 2011


1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.


2. 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.


3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.


4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.


5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.


6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.


7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen 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.


If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!



If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete.

You are one of my 20+. Please keep it going

[global1]

1. I'm Not Going To Pass This On To 20 People Because I Don't Pass Any Of These E-Mail Chains - But....

I'm going to print this out - hand it out to people I know and discuss this with people I know. Though I suspect that Congress would never get behind anything like this - it makes perfect sense and I believe that this is what the intention was of our founding fathers before the system got bastardized.

Take Back Congress!!!! should be our rallying cry.

If Congress had to be lumped in with all of us - maybe this would give them the incentive to do the right thing and not play political partisan games.

K&R

You see there are some relatively common sense things that can be done to turn this country and this economy around. This Congress fix is one of them. Some others are to: 1. Get the money out of politics - publically financed elections. 2. Raise the cap on SS. 3. Tariffs. 4. Overturn Citizens United. 5. Remove corporate welfare programs. 6. The Buffet Rule - which I found out yesterday - Reagan supported. 7. Single Payer Health Insurance. 8. Reinstate Glass-Steagal. 9. Reign in the Banksters.

I'm sure there are many more relatively common sense things. We should list them all here.