Fw: A way to better our government

[Guest guest]

This is really worth reading

and passing on!!

Warren Buffett,

in a recent interview with CNBC,

offers 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 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. 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 IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS

If you agree with the above, pass

it on. If not, just delete. You

are one of my 20+.. Please keep it

going.