I received the following in an email. I've received it before. I don't send these kind of emails to 20 people because people get enough email. Instead, I decided to put it on the blog where thousands can see it. What the initiators of this post forget is that these things can't become law until Congress votes it into law. When pigs fly!
It's too bad we can't do a citizens referendum to add an ammendment to the constituition.
Congressional Reform Act of 2013
1. No Tenure / No
Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they're out of office.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as
all Americans do.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are
void effective 12/31/13. The American people did not make this contract with
Congress- men/women. Congressmen/women 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.
P.S. I would amend to point 4 to say
Congress gets the same increase as the Cost of Living increase that Social
Security recipients get, but only once every six years. They are already paid very well and that 3% a year will add up really fast.
