HOW YOU FIX
CONGRESS!!!!!
Please propagate to your friends any ideas on how to get this done.
A. Two Six year Senate term 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 serving their term(s), then going home and back to work.)
2. Congress (past, present & future) be required to participate in Social Security: At present, Congressmen may elect one of three 'retirement' plans:
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan other than Social Security 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 6. Congress must equally abide by any and all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void
effective 1 January 2011.
The American people did not make the present “Congressional Perks”
system for our Congressmen. They
(Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators serving their term(s), then going home and back to work.)
Thomas Jefferson summed it up nicely when he admonished Congress with these words: “Public servants should not aggrandize themselves by service to the public.” and, "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Thomas Jefferson -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I firmly believe that accepting the above conditions should be prerequisite for any person aspiring to public service — especially to governmental service. Any Congressman / potential congressman should affirm they will abide by these conditions or be removed from office / not permitted to seek office. It is the only way to keep our elected representatives from “aggrandizing” themselves. If they were to balk at these conditions, I would ask them “Why do you find these conditions so egregious?”
Personally, I’ve seen quite enough of the self-serving gratuities and 'ear marks'... how kind to themselves to avoid the more common vernacular that we all understand as corruption. We can fix this! (see below) _______________________________________________________
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." —Thomas Jefferson
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” —Samuel Adams, 1776
"545 people are
responsible for all of the U.S. woes." I refer you to a brief
commentary by Charley Reese, first published in the Orlando Sentinel
Star newspaper:
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