Friday, January 21, 2011

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took

only 3 months & 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.

I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty
people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have 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.

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 loses their current health care system and participates in
the
same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American
people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective
1/1/11.

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 legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then
go
home and back to work.


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 the message. Maybe
it
is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it
on.
If not, just delete

You are one of my 20+. Please keep it going.

Bob Kaplan


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