THE TIME IS NOW !

Partisan politics have become a serious impediment to progress in America.  The country cannot afford the  constant bickering and back and forth that has become characteristic of those that we elect and send to Washington supposedly to represent us, the American people.  Both parties are so stuck to their partisan mantras that they can't depart the party platform to find solutions to the very real problems that the country faces.

Our elected officials are more interested and therefore more focused on getting re-elected than they are in the nation's business and the people's concerns. This misguided focus is oftentimes the source of the political gamesmanship that interferes with finding real solutions to the serious problems that face the country and the American people. After all, the politics of re-election are more about "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" and what is in the incumbent Politicians best re-election interests than what is best for the country and the people.   

It is way past time for "We The People" to let the Politicians know in no uncertain terms our displeasure and concern with where their actions have taken the country.  Keep in mind that many of the tenured incumbents in Washington have been part of the political landscape that has brought the country to where it is today.  How can we feel comfortable that the same people who helped to get us where we are today are going to be the ones who will help take us forward and out of harms way ?

Let's face it, as hard as it is to think, believe and then to say..........America is declining.  We all sense and feel it regardless of the flowery speeches and rhetoric that we all hear coming out of both sides of our elected officials mouths.  Talking alone about being great is not going to restore America to the position of strength, power, and respect that the country has always known.

Like Nero, the Politicians with all of their bickering, and lack of interest in working together are fiddling while Rome burns !

We need to sensitize the Politicians to a few Constitutional facts that they overlooked in their recent chamber reading of the Constitution. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for those 18 years old) took only three months and eight days to be ratified.  Why ?  Simple!  The people demanded it.  That was in 1971....before computers, email, and cell phones.  If the sons and daughters of America were old enough to die in the jungles of Southeast Asia and other parts of the world then certainly they were entitled to the right to vote.  The American people made sure that that right was granted !

Of the current 27 amendments to the constitution, seven took one year or less to become the law of the land........all because of Public pressure.  This is the model of government that the Founding Fathers envisioned and therefore put in place.

It's time once again for the people to apply the pressure to reign in Politicians who have forgotten what they were sent to Washington for.

Proposed Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1.  Term Limits of six to twelve years for all elected Congressmen and Senators

• Two six year Senate terms or any combination thereof that does not exceed twelve years total.
• Six two year House terms or three four year terms or four three year terms
• One six year Senate term and two three year House terms

2.  No Tenure / No Pension

•  Congressmen receive a salary while in office, no pension after leaving office.

3.  Congress (past, present, and future) participates in Social Security.

• All funds in the present Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security System immediately along with all future funds.  Congress participates with the American People.

4.  Congress provides for their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5.  Congress will no longer vote for pay raises for Congress (lower of  CPI   or 3%)

6.  Congress loses their current Health Care Plan.

• They participate in the same Health Care system as the American people

7.  Congress must equally abide by all laws that they impose on the American people.

8.  All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void after January 1, 2011.

• The American people did not make existing contracts with Congressmen.......Congressmen made these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor and a privilege.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, not career Politicians.

If each person who reads this proposal, contacts and shares it with a minimum of twenty people and then asks each of them to do the same, it will only take a short period of time for a significant number of people in the USA to receive this message and accompanying Reform Act proposal.

It's time to return to the system of government that the Founding Fathers created..........."Government for The People by The People".  

Government for the People by The Career Politicians has seen its best days !


It's time to "WAKE UP AMERICA" !