Start the 28th Amendment

Excellent idea!

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From: "Lewis Grace" <loumaspetey@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 2:47 pm
Subject: Start the 28th Amendment
To: "Lewis Grace" <loumaspetey@yahoo.com>






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 Start the 28th Amendment!!
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>>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, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
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>> 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.
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>> I'm 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.
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>> 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.
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>>  Congressional Reform Act of 2011
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>> 1. Term Limits. 12 years only, one of the possible options below..
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>>   A. Two Six-year Senate terms
>>   B. Six Two-year House terms
>>   C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
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>> 2.  No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and
>>receives no pay when they are out of office. 
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>> 3.  Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
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>> 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. 
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>> 4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
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>> 5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will
>>rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
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>> 6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same
>>health care system as the American people.
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>> 7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American
people.
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>> 8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void
effective 10-1-11 
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>> The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.  Congressmen
>>made all these contracts for themselves.
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>> 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. 
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>>  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.
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>> THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it on.   If
>>not, just delete
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>> You are one of my 20+.  Please keep it going.
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