I despise disrespectful and condescending people. Three years ago I looked right into the eyes of Congressman Eric Massa during a radio interview, as he was running for office against Randy Kuhl for the 29th congressional district in New York. He voiced several unethical and disrespecting comments about the current president at the time, George W. Bush. While tauting his experience as a commander of men in the United States Navy, he made some comments which displayed his true character that would eventually end his political career some two years later. Eric Massa said some very unflattering, disrespectful, derogatory, and shitty comments about his commander in chief. I knew at the time that he had some deep routed charactor flaws and was an enemy of all decent people everywhere. Eric Massais now gone from our political scene. God has a way of sorting out the people who display poor character, and usually gets rid of them. It’s one thing to disagree with your president, it’s quite another to personally attack your former commander in chief. It’s one thing to expect the very best effort from your staff, it’s quite another to treat them like a pig. Good bye Mr. Massa, your experiment was a failure.
The following is a terrific proposal !!
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.
Many of you will say, “this is impossible”. Keep in mind, Congress has the lowest approval of any entity in Government. Americans can join together to reform Congress – the entity that “represents” US the citizens of the USA.
Congressional Reform Act of 2010
1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
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.
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.
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.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security: All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves 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.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
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 pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
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 looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
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.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
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.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/2011. 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, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
Print this article and take it, in person, to your local congressional representative and ask them if they support this, sound like fun?
We Really Need to Do This !
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On December 19, 2009, Senator Ben Nelson, democrat, from Nebraska was granted immunity by the democratic Senate leadership from Medicaid funding mandates that all other states will be required to pay in return for his vote to pass the Senate Health Reform Bill. Two weeks ago, Senator Mary Landrieu, democrat from Louisiana acquired $300,000,000.00 from the Senate democratic leadership for the State of Louisiana in return for her vote to save the Senate Health Care Reform Bill. Would you consider this blackmail, bribery, corruption at its highest level?
Certainly an option very worthy of your consideration!
And the memory of our Founding Fathers?
At least read this. Form your own opinion, even if you disagree with this issue, but at least read it.. You and I owe that to our country
All I ask is that you consider the suggestion here.
all 435 of them. One third of the Senate, a total of 33 of them, will also stand for re-election.
Vote every incumbent out.
And I mean every one of them. No matter their Party affiliation. Let’s start all over in the House of Representatives with 435 people who have absolutely no experience in running that body, with no political favors owed to anyone but their own constituents. Let’s make them understand that they work for us.
They are answerable to us and they simply have to run that body with some common sense.
Two years later, in 2012, vote the next third of the incumbents in the Senate out. I am also suggesting term limits on the NEW BUNCH — 8 YEARS FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
AND
12 YEARS [2 terms] FOR SENATORS.
NO EXCEPTIONS. THE LONGER THEY STAY IN OFFICE THE MORE POWER THEY GET AND THEY LOVE IT AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET RE-ELECTED.
WE HAVE TERM LIMITED THE PRESIDENT –
NOW LET’S TERM LIMIT THE LEGISLATORS.
And we do away with their Special Retirement system and their health program (they should have same health programs everyone else in America does). When they are through serving their country they go back to being private citizens. They should view their service as a privilege; after all it was designed to be a part time job to represent the voice of the people, NOT the special interest groups and those who can do favors for them.
If they don’t like this proposal then don’t run for office…
Please, if you love this Country, send this (as I have done)
to absolutely everyone whose email address appears in your address book.
Let’s make it happen.
IF YOU LIKE THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING IN OUR COUNTRY,
THEN DO NOTHING………
THIS MOVEMENT IS A RAPIDLY GROWING GRASS ROOTS MOVEMENT TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
VOTE THE POWER ABUSERS OUT……..LET’S TAKE AMERICA BACK !!!!!!!!! This thing can permeate this Country in no time. We can do the same thing in 2014 and, by that time we will have put all new people in that body as well. We, the People, have got to take this Country back and we HAVE to do it peacefully. That’s what the Framers of our Constitution envisioned. The entire Congress of the United States is corrupt.. And I mean both Houses and I mean both major parties. I realize that a few Members of each House are trustworthy, but, as a group |