Thursday, June 23, 2011

It is Time.

This is something I will fight for.
I hope you read it all the way through.


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 Holly's Habitude or to re-tweet and/or facebook this to a minimum of twenty people on your 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. No Tenure / 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 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 are void effective 1/1/12.
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. 


 

Our Country is in trouble because of greedy people who don't care.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX IT!!!!!
   IT IS TIME.

You wonder what you can do.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
is what you can do...
Pass it along to all those you know,
talk to your family and friends this week, 
this weekend...
Maybe it's not too late.

3 comments:

  1. Holly:
    I received this information as an email. I had filed it in my 'friends' folder without reading it. I just went back and sent it to 20 people.

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  3. I am so grateful that you read it this time... Thank you for being another Shining Light! I hope we all pass this along and I pray that we each speak about it to SOMEONE this weekend face to face!

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