How to fix the Congress

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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


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.


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 loses 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 in 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 1/1/11 .

The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.


 

Charlie Farley

Supporter
It serves you right for getting all ' uppity ' 250 odd years ago.
The Boston Tea Party was your undoing, i mean, if you were still
a colony, you could have still been benefiting from the transparently
honest British Parlaiment !

:thumbsup:
:idea:
 
would you really wish gordon brown on anyone?
the people of poland mourned their president with a week of mourning. if the same happened here there would be parties!
 

Pete McCluskey.

Lifetime Supporter
There is a saying that the people get the Government they deserve. I.E. They voted for them.
That may have been true when the only people who could vote were land owners. But years of social welfare and Government handouts have negated that saying. There are so many putting their hands out instead of asking for a hand up that any politician who espoused doing what is right for the country, rather than buying votes with more and more hand outs would have no hope of being elected.
The solution? Sorry I think it is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Maybe what is needed long term is a revolution and a benevolent Dictator to emerge?
 
You're absolutely right Pete. The problem is that all of the people who did this to our country would posit themselves as victims of said revolution. They don't want a solution, they want a social lobotamy...endless entertainment, cradle to grave entitlements and zero personal responsibility. It would require a massive thinning of the herd to accomplish a true grass-roots resurgence of our compromised ideals (because face it, as good a document as the Constitution is, it was a compromise not a perfect starting point)

There is a saying that the people get the Government they deserve. I.E. They voted for them.
That may have been true when the only people who could vote were land owners. But years of social welfare and Government handouts have negated that saying. There are so many putting their hands out instead of asking for a hand up that any politician who espoused doing what is right for the country, rather than buying votes with more and more hand outs would have no hope of being elected.
The solution? Sorry I think it is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Maybe what is needed long term is a revolution and a benevolent Dictator to emerge?
 
+1 Molleur. Too many career politicians out there more focused on perpetuating their political career rather than the work at hand they were sent to D.C. to manage.

Buying influence though money and promises of wealth is standard business in D.C. these days. It's sick. The place, and the people, needs to get flushed out. As Pete said, it's likely to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. As the ship founders, the rats are the first ones into the lifeboats. Revolution and anarchy are very real possibilities.

Vote the bums out!
 
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