PROPOSED 28TH AMENDMENT

I received the following [Proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States] suggestion from a friend of mine and I think that it would be a great idea. I actually proposed a compensation idea and would like to see it implemented with this proposal.

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


You are one of my 20.

An idea whose time has come.


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 didn't pay into Social Security, 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 that is being considered...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. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Have each person contact 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 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 ".


The 27th Amendment ratified in 1992, 202 years after its submission 1789 (WikiPedia's math not mine) = “ No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

Following is a statement about my BLOG for a similar purpose which I presented with the initial post at

http://peopleeatingthescraps.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-do-we-choose-to-be-pets-of.html

I started this BLOG to start people thinking about an idea which I had that the disconnect between our government and the people who employ them isolates those who govern from the consequences of their actions. Many of those in government have no experience in the real world of business and the lack of accountabiity for their effect on our country gives them no feedback to put them more in touch with what they have done.

Our politicians are better paid than the majority of American workers and receive excellent benefits whether they perform miracles or destroy the country which they manage. We have never held them accountable at a level that made them care about what they do to our country. They have been able to enrich themselves and enjoy power without their tenure and compensation and benefits tied to performance.
I WANT OUR POLITICIANS TO SHARE IN WHAT THEY CREATE - REWARD GOOD PERFORMANCE AND PUNISH BAD PERFORMANCE.
Private enterprise could not survive if it let mismangement by its executives go and didn't replace or penalize them. Coventures in private investments often have the entrepenuer not receiving any profit until the investment has been returned.
WHY HAVE WE GIVEN POLITIANS AN EXEMPTION AND WATCHED AS THEY DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
Robert Ringer - Winning Through Intimidation - said that the one time when you can be sure that a person will look out for you is when they benefit if you do. Let us take it a step further and let them suffer when we do.
The Big Business people, Big Union people, Politicians and people like George Soros who profit with economic disasters are stirring aurguments between us little people and raking in the big bucks. It is not a Left verses Right issue. It is an American survival issue and their are basic measurements such as the National Debt to GDP being the highest it has ever been since WWII which make an objective analysis practical.
GET OFF OF YOUR EMOTIONAL AURGUMENTS AND GET BEHIND OUR COUNTRY.
I would like to see our country give opportunity to those who want to take advantage of it and create jobs and innovation. Regulation is left out of this cause because the first step is making the managers of our system our partners instead of our masters.
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand


“It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.” -- Samuel Adams
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” -- Samuel Adams

Positions
At least the president, vice president, senators and representatives, referred to as "the Group" create what we, the people, live with in America
Create categories such as fiscal, health, +++ to monitor and parameters to measure performance of the legislature in managing our country
Make salaries and retirement a function of a formula using the parameters to reward or punish performance
Create a tiered relationship between the health care which the Group receives and the American people receive
Create an IRS provision to apply a surtax to assets acquired after taking office at a rate inversely related to the performance from 0% to 50%