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Monday, October 14, 2013

We Can Only Hope

Congressional Reform Act of 2013
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're 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 with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can 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/women are void effective 12/31/13. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.

Congressmen/women 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. Don't you think it's time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about:

"If a budget can not be agreed upon, last year's budget is repeated"

Bush'man said...

or in the present situation..the year before the year of last year!

Anonymous said...

Better, more accurate formula.

Congress pay is @ $175,000 per year. Divide by 2080 to get hourly rate for a 40 hour week.

Multiply by 29 (actually 30, but we don't want any inadvertent overtime) to get their maximum weekly permitted hours and pay under Obamacare.

If they wish health benefits they can enroll. If they don't they can pay the escalating fines for failing to enroll.

Now they can be accurate when they claim to 'feel our pain'.