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2011-11-02 09:11 AM

Eriella
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Warren Buffett, "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just ...pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. 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, e-mail, 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.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of
twenty people on their 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.
2011-11-02 12:47 PM

StanfordDrive
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Posts: 2
I like this.  Our national leaders were compromised toTAKE money bribes for legislation instead of EARNING their salary because of the formation of K Street in the days of Tom Delay as Majority Leader in Congress.  KSTREET allowed corporations to dominate Congress by encouraging lobbyists to influence our congressmen.  Sadly, Congress made rules to give themselves automatic pay raises and when KSTREET came on the scene, DeLay reduced the congressional work week to maybe three days a week with holidays and used KSTREET to write the legislation.  Our political system has suffered because of this whole structure.  You can tell by the speeches of Boener and Cantor that they don't even know how to write a bill and most Congressmen spend more time at home raising money for reelection and playing with the kids while corporations write the laws of the land.  Blaming President Obama for the failure of the economic system shows how uneducated the voters have become about how their government actually works.  Laws concerning the economy are made in the House of Representatives, NOT by the President.  If the voters actually had a say anymore, it would be different.  Yesterday Senator T. Udall of NM and Senator Bennett of CO, introduced a bill that was actually supported by many other senators: that makes an effort to undo the effects of the Supreme Court ruling CITIZENS UNITED; as follows:

"Letting this go unchecked is a threat to our democracy. Campaigns should be about the best ideas, not the biggest checkbooks," said Udall at a press conference.

Only a constitutonal amendment can reverse the ruling. The amendment adds language to the Constitution that says Congress and the states can regulate campaign contributions and expenditures. It doesn't address the Supreme Court's  legal finding that corporations have a right to free speech that was curtailed by election law.

Udall's amendment authorizes Congress to regulate raising and spending money for federal campaigns, and allows states to do the same. It also allows Congress to pass campaign finance reform legislation that could withstand constitutional challenges."  from : sustainablebusiness.com
I found that writing to our congressmen about having them get rid of their benefits was not effective.  This is their solution but it is one of many bills of this nature that have failed. 
National and local elections have been infiltrated by contributions to secretaries of state and election officials and most elections whether state local or federal have been "fixed" since the economy is so bad everyone has lost their moral conviction so the low paid govt. workers can keep their jobs or get a little under the table.  Corporations and rich voters can keep it all quiet for them to do this.
Money is not free speech it is paid speech.  The city of Boulder is starting a Constitutional Amendment proposition as well concerning Citizens United and the unlimited use of money in our elections. 

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