Someone sent me an email to pass along to 20 others and it gave me the idea to start a blog to rant and rave about the Good, the Bad, and the Fluggin' Ugly of stuff I come across.
I don't usually send mail like this, but I got a niece in the marines, and if this stuff is true, it really bothers me. Read on ...
This is one to forward. It's hard to imagine that it wasn't among the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
No
one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the
U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and
only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.
Monday
we learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from
having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if
news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just
where will all of it stop?
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.
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 ."