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I think the congresscritters salaries and benefits could easily be cut. AND we, the people need to grow up and unelect many of them. They don't have the sense to limit their terms - look at how old they are when they get carried out, how “entitled” they are. WE need to limit their terms for them. Our founding fathers limited the time they could afford to spend serving the countries needs because their salaries were so low they had to get the countries business done to return home to earn a living!

Hello momf,

You make some very valid points. I wrote my Congressman about this. To be honest, he is a Republican and a very decent guy. I don't know if he is listening. I do know he is independently wealthy, which I don't fault him for. The Bible says: "Do not covet!" Yet, that is exactly what Americans think they should do.

I didn't know myself how bad this economy was until the last few weeks. I think people hide it well, but now I have seen things that I previously would not have believed. Perhaps people have stopped hiding it as much as they did. But I now see a lot of hurt people.

The GOP leadership is going to lose this one, and lose big. The Sequester is a disater, and they are all holding onto it like a life preserver, when in reality it is a iron weight in deep water.

Still, there is hope. Obama is not God. Far from it. God laughs at Obama (Psalm 2:4).

If we pray to God, and turn to Him, there is a solution.

126 posted on 2/22/2013 5:57:52 PM by momf: “I think the congresscritters salaries and benefits could easily be cut.”

The 27th Amendment is an issue. No cuts in Congressional compensation can take effect until after the November elections next year at the earliest:

“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.”