THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS !!


  
I am sending this to virtually everybody on my e-mail list and that includes conservatives, liberals, and everybody in between. Even though we disagree on a number of issues, I count all of you as friends.  My friend and neighbor wants to promote a "Congressional Reform Act of 2010". It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.


I know many of you will say, "this is impossible."  Let me remind you, Congress has the lowest approval of any entity in Government, now is the time when Americans will join together to reform Congress - the entity that represents us.  

We need to get a Senator to introduce this bill in the
U.S. Senate and a Representative to introduce a similar bill in the  U.S. House.  These people will become American heroes.


Thanks,

A Fellow American

 

.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

     (and of course – then 8 years in the White House)

     
   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
member of Congress collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when he/she leaves 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.  Today Congressmen get  $172,000 a year each on average.

 

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, 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.  Today, Congress has its own retirement plan that pays 100% of the last three years average monthly pay, as monthly retirement pay, after just 5 years of service, while allowing retirement with this full pay at age 50.

 

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

    
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 themselves a pay raise.  Congressional House pay will be the average wage paid across America to the average American.  Senators get twice that number.  Housing and meals for Congress are provided for free at Fort Myer with Marine security.     

 
   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 private, personal health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people have
(or get), with
ALL military hospitals across America opened to the public.

    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.  Today Congress gets all it medical health care for free.


 
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they write and impose on the American people – NO EXCEPTIONS.

  
  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.  

    Neither
the American people nor the Constitution provided these insane privileges to the congress, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves, and have been helping themselves to our “lunch” ever since. 

 

TERMINATE THE RULING CLASS !

   
 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. 
  
  
If you agree with the above, pass it on to all in your address list.   

If not, in my opinion, you haven’t thought it through very well.