Posted on 03/20/2011 12:18:38 PM PDT by Kaslin
He needs to stop crying and man up first.
Pish. Congressional salaries are *nothing*. Congressional lifetime pensions and health benefits should be addressed, as a symbolic gesture ... but it shouldn’t be a distraction from cutting real spending, such as the Departments of Education, Housing, Energy, etc.
WORD.
>> If the Speaker of the House would take the baton and move forward while at the same time making cuts in both congressional pay and benefits even steeper
I see it just the opposite.
Give every congressman a ten million dollar bonus — IF and ONLY IF they accomplish a series of goals:
1) reduce the deficit to zero THIS TAX YEAR with NO increase in tax rates
2) FIX the entitlement mess so it is guaranteed solvent within five years
3) Institute a revenue-neutral or (better yet) a revenue-negative flat tax system
3a) Repeal the death tax
4) Any of them having served over 6 years retires at the end of their next term.
That should get their attention, and they are just self-serving enough to accomplish it if there is something in it for THEM.
What’s that funny language in your tagline??
Anyway, yah. Cut off their pensions.
I received this via email today. Feel free to pass it along!
This is what we need:
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.
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.
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. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
3. 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.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
8. 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.
THIS WOULD BE A GOOD START!
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.
You cannot use Congressman and self sacrifice in the same sentence. Dream on.
Who cares? Congressional salaries are a drop in the bucket of the $1.6t national deficit. This is cheap populist grandstanding. I bear no grudge to a congressman making a living, in fact there’s good arguments for increasing their salaries - by large margins. Maybe if congressional pay was commensurate with what highly skilled individuals could get in the private sector we could finally get rid of some of the brain dead morons infesting select congressional seats.
Albanian.
No more per Diem and make them fly commercial not Gulfstream.
Make their job miserable so they have higher aspirations elsewhere.
Personally, I think if they cut everything else they can keep their bloated salaries.
Unlike Pelosi, Boehner is flying commercial as far as I know
Boehner has FAR more important things to do right now than spend time on this stuff. Certainly, this could be something to play with down the road, but if he doesn’t concentrate on the big picture cuts, our country is going to fail.
Now, here is a better way to cut those salaries. Seek “justice”. Blow the corruption in DC into a thousand pieces. Investigate, Indite and Imprison.
Go through DC like a crazy man with a meat clever. If we don’t eviscerate the political corruption and scare the hell out of anyone tempted to get so involved, most other changes will be temporary at best.
If it were not for corruption, most of our problems wouldn’t exist.
Problem with Boehner is that he is a Republicand, and not a Conservative.
Regardless of party...the Congress critters will not cut their own salaries. And, really, no one seems to care. If it was a low paid government street sweeper in Wisconsin, there would be protests. No one says anything when it is politicians
ANYONE in Congress who is flying commercial without special privileges is sincerely active in making a major change of the TSA security requirements at the airport.
“You can’t say they’ve been slow to act.”
You can’t? All I’ve seen is a LOT of talk and very little action!
“With the passage of bills that repeal Obamacare, de-fund NPR, and discontinue federal subsidies for special interest group Planned Parenthood (just to name a few), the House has demonstrated that it “got the message” in last year’s election.”
In each case, they voted against these things before they voted for them.
There was no message gotten.
I think Austin Hill is in charge of the GOP Ministry of Information and Doublespeak.
Plus having all those in government be on Social Security and Medicare like the rest of us. No special programs for those in public office. As matter of fact they should be penalized for being so corrupt and destroying America.
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