This came in the mail today;
The 26th amendment, granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds, took only 3 months and 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! 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.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011 (Amendment 28 of the U.S. Constitution)
1. No Tenure and No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. 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 the same as all other American people. The Social Security fund may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay 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 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 with and for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so congressmen should serve their terms (no more than 2), then go home and find a job. A former congressman cannot be a lobbyist.
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If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people in the U.S. to receive this message. It is time for this Amendment.
Hear, hear!!
me too!
Some of this is already the law...Don't believe everything you hear on CNN or Fox.
As with all of these internet "chain letter" e-mails that seem to be a great idea, I ask myself what the chances are of it being real. This one fails quite quickly. First and foremost, the passing of this would require our "representatives" to legislate reductions in their own pay, benefits, and power. We may not like them and may even think they're bought and paid for morons, but they still don't generally defecate in their own nests.
Oooo, gotta go; Bill Gates is going to give me $1,000 for every person I forward an e-mail to.
Count me in! [cool]