{"id":580,"date":"2010-10-13T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=580"},"modified":"2010-10-13T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:31:40","slug":"the-ultimate-political-cure-a-chain-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/10\/13\/the-ultimate-political-cure-a-chain-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate political cure? A chain letter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is circulating around the email world, what do you think?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Congressional \u00a0Reform Act of \u00a02010<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Term \u00a0Limits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12 years only, \u00a0one of the possible options \u00a0below..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. Two Six-year \u00a0Senate terms<br \/>\nB. Six Two-year \u00a0House terms<br \/>\nC. One Six-year \u00a0Senate term and three Two-Year House \u00a0terms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0\u00a0No Tenure \/ No Pension.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A \u00a0Congressman collects a salary while in office \u00a0and receives no pay when they are out of \u00a0office.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n3. \u00a0\u00a0Congress (past, present &amp; future) \u00a0participates in Social Security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All \u00a0funds in the Congressional retirement fund move \u00a0to the Social Security system immediately. \u00a0\u00a0All future funds flow into the Social \u00a0Security system, and Congress participates with \u00a0the American people.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n4. \u00a0Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, \u00a0just as all Americans do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay \u00a0raise. \u00a0Congressional pay will rise by the \u00a0lower of CPI or 3%.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>6. \u00a0Congress loses their current health care system \u00a0and participates in the same health care system \u00a0as the American \u00a0people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Congress must equally abide by all laws they \u00a0impose on the American people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. \u00a0All contracts with past and present Congressmen \u00a0are void effective \u00a01\/1\/11.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The American \u00a0people did not make this contract with \u00a0Congressmen. \u00a0Congressmen made all these \u00a0contracts for \u00a0themselves<\/strong><\/span><strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nServing \u00a0in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The \u00a0Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, \u00a0serve your term(s), then go home and back to \u00a0work.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nNot sure where this &#8220;reform act&#8221; originated, but it came into my in box with the request that I forward it to 20 people&#8230;and the note that it would take just three days for everyone of voting age to see it if we kept the chain going.<\/p>\n<p>Well, is this the cure?<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is circulating around the email world, what do you think?<br \/>\n Congressional \u00a0Reform Act of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}