How to FIX our country

[Stretch]

I don't care what your politacl party is. It really doesn't matter to me. One things for sure. This just makes sense!


Thank you Warren Buffet!

[Charger74]

Everyone of those needs to be implemented among some other reforms as well. 

[Tilar]

Those along with term limits could easily be implemented on a state by state level but you would have to get all 50 states...or in obamas case, all 57 states to do it in order for it to work.

[Orange_Crush]

I'll tell you what would go a LONG way towards fixing this country.  If people would quit blindly reposting EVERY DAMNED THING that shows up in their in box.

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

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Yeah, Warren Buffett totally wrote that.

Hey! The word "gullible" is written on the ceiling.  Right there!  Look!

[Tilar]

Doesn't make a damn who wrote it. Betsy Ross could have done it for all that matter... It needed to be written and people need to pay attention to it.

[Stretch]

You can call me "gullible", naive, stupid, or what ever you want. So I got the wrighters name wrong. I still think there is a lot of good ideas there.

[last426]

You can call me "gullible", naive, stupid, or what ever you want. So I got the wrighters name wrong. I still think there is a lot of good ideas there.

Okay, like most "informed" people you are gullible, naive, and stupid.  Why?  Because even after the truth is posted you don't read it or maybe understand it.  Snopes addressed much below.


Can members of Congress retire with full pay after serving only a single term?

No. This is a long-standing erroneous rumor which we cover in a separate article.

Are members of Congress exempt from paying into Social Security?

No. As noted in our article about Congressional pensions, although Congress initially participated in the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) rather than Social Security, since 1984 all members of Congress have been required to pay into the Social Security fund.

Are members of Congress exempt from prosecution for sexual harassment?

No. The passage of Public Law 104-1 (the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, also known as CAA) made a variety of laws related to civil rights and workplace regulations applicable to the legislative branch of the federal government. Section 201 of the CAA specifically prohibits sexual harassment (as well as harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin).

Did members of Congress try to exempt themselves from current health care reform legislation?

No. This claim was based on the erroneous assumption that congressional efforts to establish a "public option" for health insurance would have required everyone (except members of Congress) to participate in a new federal insurance plan. The proposed legislation would merely have required everyone (including members of Congress) to have health insurance that met minimum benefit standards, and to that end called for the creation of insurance exchanges which would offer health insurance plans to those who could not otherwise afford insurance plans meeting the minimum benefits criteria.

In fact, the final version of the health care reform legislation that was eventually passed in March 2010 stated that "Members of Congress and congressional staff" will only have access to plans that are created by the health care bill or offered through the exchanges established by the bill:
(D) MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN THE EXCHANGE.

(i) REQUIREMENT — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after the effective date of this subtitle, the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff with respect to their service as a Member of Congress or congressional staff shall be health plans that are:

(I) created under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act); or

(II) offered through an Exchange established under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act).

[Budnicks]

I don't care what your politacl party is. It really doesn't matter to me. One things for sure. This just makes sense!


Thank you Warren Buffet!

I  would tend to agree 100%    with what was written there, but who actually wrote it   Chances are it will never happen though, especially with a big govt. socialist liberals in office

[Budnicks]

Those along with term limits could easily be implemented on a state by state level but you would have to get all 50 states...or in obamas case, all 57 states to do it in order for it to work.

I'm with you especially on the term limits no one should be in the same position in politics for more than 2 terms MAX, especially the "house & senate", getting rid of the career politician should be job 1 for the whole nation, keeping lobbyists out of the process would be a good idea also