WISHFUL THINKING !

[r.m.anderson]

Copied from an email I received (forwarded mail):

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Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,"

he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election



The 26th amendment (granting the right

to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified!

Why? Simple! The people demanded it.

That was in 1971...before computers,

e-mail, cell phones, etc.



Of the 27 amendments to the

Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the

land...all because of public pressure.



Warren Buffet is asking each addressee

to forward this email to 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 idea that really

should be passed around.



Congressional Reform Act of 2012

1. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office

and receives no pay when they are out of office.



2. Congress (past, present &future) participates

in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund

move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow

into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the

American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.



3. Congress can purchase their own retirement

plan, just as all Americans do.



4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay

raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.



5. Congress loses their current health care

system and participates in the same health care system as the American

people.



6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they

impose on the American people.



7. All contracts with past and present

Congressmen are void effective 1/1/13.

The American people did not make this contract

with Congressmen.

Congressmen made all these contracts for

themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding

Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their

term(s), then go home and back to work.



If each person contacts a minimum of twenty

people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. )

to receive the message.

Maybe it is time.



THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!

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Hope this raises some eyebrows and stirs up some meaningful discussion/action and apology to our forum members living outside the United States for airing our political discord !

rma

[skirtingtoday]

The interview was of course, slightly tongue-in-cheek, but with some seriousness to it.

Of course it'll never happen in reality - no matter how many people read or respond to the e-mail.... or read the CNBC article/watch the video - despite the fact that it seems to have gone viral

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43670783/Warren_ ... he_Deficit

I do wish him luck in his campaign and wish something like this would happen on this side of the Pond.