Finger Prick

I have no idea who started the below email however supposedly Warren Buffet is circulating it. Yeah right, Warren Buffet! Although I think this is a good idea the goobers who are floating this on the internet would have done better to pick Howard Stern.

I can think of several other points I would add. This makes sense to me! How about you?

_*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.

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.

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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have,” ~ President Gerald Ford in an address to a joint session of Congress on August 12, 1974. ^{(No, it was not Thomas Jefferson who made this statement)}

Folks looks like we have reached the tipping point.