UPDATE: It occurs to me that this article proposed something that is popular with the American people -increased accountability among our elected officials. I posted this from another website as indicated above, but after checking FACT CHECK, I’m reminded it is … just an idea! While bits and pieces of this have been proposed by various members, nothing significant has happened yet! The popularity of this article on various websites is proof it carries some measures that might actually improve our government on every level. I would suggest, if you like these ideas, that you send them to your Senators and Representatives. Let’s push it and make our “Representative”government work in our behalf!
I challenge you to read this and NOT have the will to pass it on to all your friends!
No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense..
Monday we learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed while citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform… in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will share it, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .”
By: Patrick J Hunt
My only problem is that I think there should be NO retirement for members of Congress and Presidents/VicePresidents. These are offices that should be held as a reward for good work towards the end of one’s career and therefore not retirement should be necessary.
AGREED! 🙂 Two terms & done – regardless of the elected office! These offices should be service oriented – and while some compensation is OK while they SERVE, when their 2 terms are done – they have served their country! 🙂
Agreed!
Two terms and done. First term in office and second term in prison.
No exceptions.
Well, if they knew going in that they only had two terms to “serve,” chances are they’d either get caught in their rush to stake their claim or they’d actually “serve” the people who hired them!
I agree that it’s time to change this
they are in Congress to represent us
the laws they pass should apply to them also
absolutely! It is criminal that they are “above” the law … Ridiculous!
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Thanks, Robert!
Forward this to my congressman and senator, what do you think they’ll have to say about it? Keep the pressure up.
Excellent! I sent it to my republican Senator … I know the Dem will ignore it or pitch it! lol He will be out in Nov!
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Wasn’t stuff like this part of the reason for the Revolutionary War against British tyranny by their elites? It surely was. I don’t think any public servant should get any “retirement.” The original idea was that people would serve for a short time in public office, leave, and return to their lives and jobs. Our founders never intended public service to be a career! I fully support such an amendment. These people are no better than the rest of us. I assure you if everything they passed applied to them they’d all be actually reading legislation BEFORE they voted on it and they’d be far more caredul about what kind of bills they passed. It’s time for reform and we can start cutting the deficit by cutting all these “retirments” and fringe benefits. Our own public servants are sucking us dry. Time to stand up and fight back against this crap America!! This is clearly inequality! That’s NOT what this nation was founded upon!!
Bravo Zulu, Rob
Exactly! Precisely … return to their law practice or … whatever! I sent this to my Senator & Congressmen … We’ll see what happens! I’m a pushy “broad”! lol yes, I’m sure their retirements only make up a drop in the deficit bucket, but it is an excellent place to start! Yes! They are supposed to serve out of a love for country, not looking for financial security!
Thanks!
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Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .”
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What representative is sponsoring this proposal ? Is there a petition out there ?
This is a great idea, but how do we take the next step ?
Well Dane, Sadly, although many of these ideas have been floated around Congress, none have been taken seriously! http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/congressional-reform-act/ I actually sent this to my Senators and Representatives, though, as a sample of something that would be truly appreciated!
No sense in trying to get Congress to do this to themselves. There is another way to approach this:. two thirds of the State legislatures ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments and three fourths of the legislatures then
ratify the proposed amendments they become a/an amendment just like the
twenty seven we already have. This is how prohibtion was repealed. Contact your state legislators to get it started. Forget Congress on this!!
They voted for their own pay razes. Seems they hold the loot, anyway you look at it. It has to stop. They should not get a 401K Retirement Fund, if they did not balance the budget, stay out of wars, not shove their coup d’etat down our throats and stop funding other countries and bloody businesses like Planned Parenthood and the like. 4 Years and out.
The initial thought behind such measures had good intentions. To discourage members of Congress from passing laws that will benefit them after they leave office, an aggressive retirement system was put into place. But, unfortunately, they are now doing both.
I say make the senators / congressmen’s Kids pay for their own collage ( yes they get theirs free) .. the senators and congressmen pay for their own medical and transportation…. tax the people who make mega $$$$ bucks$$$$$$ and can afford to pay the taxes!!!!! leave the little businesses,lower and middle class, alone.. and leave the disabled, and seniors alone…. COME ON!!!! COMMON SENSE WOULD MAKE IT EASY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO CUT THE BUDGET!!!! not where we don’t need them cut!!!!!! ARG!!!… We just need to fire them all and start over, and I am not talking about those that have been spoon feed all their lives … I don’t think those in Government have much if any common sense… 😦
It’s time to get back to a government of the people, by the people, for the people and equal to the people.
YES!
It’s incredible that I don’t see here the drivers for such an Amendment are factually incorrect. Go check it out open mindedly. Look into a last century act, the CAA, and specific verbiage in subsequent laws. Anything else as is so profuse here is nothing more than a circle jerk. We don’t need IGNORANT CONSERVATIVES