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SWMO

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This came in an email.  I like this idea.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! 

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            Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits.

  6 years only.

  A. Two Three-year Senate terms
  B. Three Two-year House terms

2.  No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 

3.  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.

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

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

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

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

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

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, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.









 

kobo_ranch

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sounds good to me... we'd get rid of all the shyster's but then again we might be left with no one  (lol)
 

knabe

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SWMO said:
The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

careful, they might need a government program to help them with what that means.
 

knabe

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AAOK said:

I'll vote for it.  Where's my Ballot?

that's the problem.  congress makes the ballot.  as far as i know, the initiative process at the federal level is difficult. 
 

SWMO

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knabe said:
AAOK said:

I'll vote for it.  Where's my Ballot?

that's the problem.  congress makes the ballot.  as far as i know, the initiative process at the federal level is difficult. 

Knabe,  So how does the constituents make this happen?  It would have to be a kinda "Tea Party" movement?
 

knabe

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starts at the local level and get rid of the everyone gets a trophy mentality.

hmm.  now that i think  of it, they deserve the dunce cap in the corner.

at some point, the dunces took over.

call your congressperson and tell them not to print money to bail out california retirement packages or union packages which when a company fails, the government isn't necessarily obligated to bail them out even though there is a program to do that.

not sure why the unions are such babies that when they and management bankrupt a company, the rest of us should bail them out.
 

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SWMO said:
This came in an email.  I like this idea.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!  

                      **********************************
           

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, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
no truer words spoken.....why else would some "candidates" have 100 million dollars to personally invest to win "there" election??....all votes should be write in....there  by "nominating"....say 20 canditates from each state.....( all elected  by write in poppular vote)......then throw there names in a hat and drawl out 4 to represent each state...?.....to many good people, willing and able to solve these problems never even having the chance. to contribute.....a good country going to waste, over the contoversies of how to run a mixed economic nation.....social security/medicare/medicaid/??........cant live with it....cant live without ?....jbarl.
 
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