The ultimate political cure? A chain letter?
This is circulating around the email world, what do you think?
Congressional Reform Act of 2010
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, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
Not sure where this “reform act” originated, but it came into my in box with the request that I forward it to 20 people…and the note that it would take just three days for everyone of voting age to see it if we kept the chain going.
Well, is this the cure?
Tags: congressional reform
Ellen,
I’m for it all!
I will try and forward it.
Points 3 thru 8 especially.
Haven’t seen it yet, other than here, and would vote for everything except term limits and add one.
I would add: No one can run for any office or hold any tax payer paid position (including Justice on the Supreme Court) beyond the age of 65.
Never liked term limits. If someone is actually doing a good job and has the experience to do the job, I don’t see the reason to get rid of them.
I know I am contradicting myself some with the age limit requirement but everyone should retire and let the young have more of a say in government.
Would really like to see a term limit on Supreme Court Justices – a long one, say 15 years – but get them off at some point. This would make appointments to SCOTUS less charged, more mundane, because they would happen on a regular basis.