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Forum Post: Congress Reform Act 2011

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 10:59 a.m. EST by axeman (0)
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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. Maybe it is time.

This supposedly started by Warren Buffet. Gets to some of the root problems that underlies the unfairness of the current system

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[-] 1 points by senior101 (5) 13 years ago

See Quit Ranting and do something below (User Submitted)

Posted Oct. 20, 2011, 10:06 a.m. EST (2 hours ago) by senior101 | edit | delete

Emailing eachother is not going to accomplish anything - I submitted this as a petition on 9-23 sent to 300 people and only got 13 sigs. its got a couple of days left - if you are really concerned about doing something sign the petition - this has to be done.

Until the Petition gets 150 signatures it will not be available on the regular petition site.

It is available at http://wh.gov/gpQ

once it receives 150 signatures it will be available on http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/Petitions

When it receives 5000 signatures it will be given to the appropriate legislators to pursue.

[-] 0 points by marcxstar (167) from Los Angeles, CA 13 years ago

Sounds reasonable.