No Matter what your plitical leanings are you should read this ........
The 26th amendment which granted the right to vote to 18 yr olds, took only 3 months & 8 daysto be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become law of the land..all due to public pressure.
I am asking all who read this, copy and paste it, and send it to a minumum of 30 friends and in this case country men and women. In 3 days most people in the United States will have this message. .This is one idea that desperately needs to be passed around.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM ACT of 2011
1. No Tenure/ No Pension, A Congressman and or Woman collects a salary while in office and recieves no pay when thay are out of office.
2 Congress ( past, present, & future) participate in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement funds move to the Social Security system immediatly. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress partcipates 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 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 rest of 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 DIPOLMATS (LEGISLATORS). THEY WANTD PEOPLE WHO CAME SERVED THEIR COUNTRY FOR ASHORT TERM THEN RETURN TO WORK AS A CITIZEN. NOT CAREER POLITICIANS.
If each person contacts a minimum contacts a minimum of 30 most of these say 20 people it will only take 3 days to spread this word nationally. IT IS TIME TO FIX CONGRESS.
if you agree do as asked and forward this to as manyas possible. If not good luck anyway.