We
need to start a movement for the 28th Amendment of the Constitution! If each person
contacts a minimum of 20 people then it will only
take
three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message.
Maybe
it is time�
The
26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3
months and 8
days
to be ratified! Why? Simple! We the people
demanded it. That was in
1971...before computers, before e-mail, before
cell phones, etc.
Of the
27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less
to
become the law of the land... all because of public pressure.
I am
asking everyone to forward this article to a minimum of twenty
people
on their friends list; and in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In
three days, most people in The United States of America will have
received
the
message.
This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
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
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
with the rest of us.
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 shall withdraw from their current health care system and participate in
the
same health care system as the American people.
7.
Congress must equally abide by all the laws that they impose on the American
people.
8. All
contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective
11-11-11
In the
existing system the
American people did not make any contract with Congressmen.
Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress should be an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so today's legislators should serve their term(s),
then
go home and back to work..
If
each person contacts a minimum of twenty people it will only
take
three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message.
Maybe
it is time.
Most
will question what it will take to make this a reality and from
my perspective it would either require the support of the
majority of Representatives and Senators who are up for
re-election, which is not likely to happen, or we will need to
get at least 38 States to support the call for a Constitutional
Convention - which is the likely path forward.
THIS
IS HOW WE CAN FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it
on.
