[Sleeper '69]

Received this email and thought I would post it here. I am sure someone will attest to it's authenticity. If not it should be. Feel free to copy and paste and send as an email.


Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government: Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.


This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

This is an idea that we should address.For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."

 

[Andy69]

I like it.

I might pass the states. Good luck in getting it by Congress though. Although, if it's big news and everyone is paying attention, they may not have a choice.

Constitutional convention is a bad idea though. Everyone thinks a CC can be restricted to a few items, but that is not the case. The last time we had a CC in this country they were just supposed to revise the Articles of Confederation, but ended up dumping them entirely and going with a new system.

 

[Beaux]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/28thamendment.asp

 

[Sleeper '69]

Thanks Beaux. Snopes says it's mostly false, but does Snope's lean right or left?
I seem to recall when HC was an issue that it wouldn't apply to Congress. Maybe that wasn't in the final version. But we won't know what's in it until it's law.
(thanks nancy)

Looking at the options of how to get this implemented doesn't look like it will ever happen.

 

[bikeron]

Snopes seems to spin stuff like this in favor of Congress. Congress does exempt themselves from many laws. While the Email may stretch things a bit I would rate it as basically correct, that is Congress exempts themselves from many laws.

They don't even discuss the worst of the abuse..here is one article as to how you go in at 150K a year and come out a multi-millionaire at the end of 4 years..

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...gressmen-do-it-commentary-by-ann-woolner.html

"Until 1995, Congress exempted itself from labor, civil rights and safety laws. But with the Congressional Accountability Act that year, [Remember the Repubs Contract with America?] members finally applied to themselves many of the same statutes they enacted for other employers. The hypocrisy of punishing others for doing that which they could do with impunity finally caught up with them.

More or less. They still cut themselves more breaks in the law than private employers have. But at least congressional employees have some protection against job bias, sexual harassment, unfair labor practices and hazardous work space, whereas they used to have none."

Ron