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  • MikeM November 2011 +1 -1
    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 COLA 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.
    cc
    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.
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