This proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution came by email. I’ve seen it before. But I’m going to post it and the accompanying comments here.
The author of this email (and no one ever knows who that is) urges us, the good citizens of the United States, to send the suggestion to 20 others so that just about everybody (everybody with Internet access, that is) will know and support this proposed legislation. The email is accompanied by a picture of a stalwart wounded soldier.
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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 .”
Please forward, it’s about time we started taking our country back from Washington, Republicans Democrats and Independents alike.
I challenge you to read this and NOT have the will to pass it on to your 20.
We recently learned that the staffers of Congress’s 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.
We recently learned that the staffers of Congress’s 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?
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. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. THE SELF-SERVING MUST STOP.
This is one proposal that really should be passed around. If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.
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Because this has circulated through the Internet several times, I claim that a whole lot of people already HAVE this information! My question is: What now?
I sort of resent the tone of the email, urging all good citizens to pass the information on, especially the statement that reads: “I challenge you to read this and NOT have the will to pass it on to your 20.” And who comprises that magic 20? Sounds like sloganeering to me. And how will passing on the information endlessly help us to take back our country?
I do feel strongly this amendment should be implemented, especially after seeing on 60 Minutes recently how freely the members of Congress trade stocks on insider information. (Which, because they make the laws and have exempted themselves, is not illegal for them. )
But how to get this going? Whom do we contact? It’s all well and good to feel strongly and pass information around on the Internet. But that’s not enough. We’ve passed and passed this information around for a long time, but so far nothing has happened.
There are a lot of angry people out there, but Congress seems to be impervious to all accusations. They continue to live in their own world, in which they don’t have to be accountable to anyone, while (symbolically) shouting: “Let them eat cake.”
The no-trading of stocks based on insider information bill has been introduced every year for years, but nobody shows up. Few have heard of it. I’m afraid this proposed 28th amendment will suffer the same fate, that of being reduced to the back of the back burner.
How can we emphasize that we want Congress to live by the same laws they have instituted for us? Who polices the police? Aren’t we asking the foxes to guard the henhouse?
