This is how you fix our US Congress

By Frosty Wooldridge

As of January, 2012, our U.S. Congress approval rating hit nine percent.  You must wonder what the nine percent were thinking when they thought Congress was doing a great job.

Consider that 46 million Americans subsist on food stamps while 15 million Americans cannot secure a job.    While we wallow in $15 trillion national debt, our Congress carries on wars that cost us $12 billion monthly. 

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offered one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:  “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 one (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/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no

         pay when they’re 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/women are void

         effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this

         contract with Congressmen/women.

         Congress 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.  Don’t you think it’s time?

If this makes sense, pass it to your friends and let’s move to make Congress responsive to the American people.

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