Friday, February 5, 2010

How to Fix Congress

I just got this email forward and I must say, I think it is PERFECT. I am 1000% in support of this. Send this on to your friends and family as well! It's time to do something. Being in D.C. SHOULD NOT be a lifetime career. They forget what it's like to actually be an American citizen once they're there too long!

Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.

A. Two Six year Senate terms

B. Six Two year House terms

C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

2. No Tenure/No Pension:

A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay he or she are out of office.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work...

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:

All funds in the Congressional retire-ment fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

5. Congress will no longer vote them-selves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

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

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.

The American people did not make this contract with congressmen; congress-men made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

4 comments:

Moogie P said...

This bears repeating:

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

History Punk said...

"Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. "

Given how many of them made careers of it and their rejection of ideas like term limits, this seems like nonsense.

Shay said...

History Punk-this doesn't seem like nonsense. Many of them may have made careers of politics two hundred years ago--but it clearly is not benefitial to today's America. Too many politicians go to Washington and, though they go with great intentions, stay too long and forget why they went there in the first place. Term limits is the best way to remind our politicians that they are there to represent their constituents. Term limits will remind us all that this particular "job" is not a career...

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