A friend of mine, another Steve, sent this email to me. I have sent it along to more than 20, and I thought this would be a great post for you to copy and send to your friends…especially the liberal ones.
An idea whose time has come
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.
Many citizens have no idea that members of Congress
- receive retirement checks till death; of the same pay earned after even only one term,
- they don’t pay into Social Security,
- they specifically exempted themselves from many laws they have passed
(such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment)
The latest is to exempt themselves from Health Care Reform they just passed…
Ordinary citizens must live under those laws.
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 a good way to do that.
It is an idea whose time has come.
Have each person contact 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 proposal that really should be passed around.
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 elected officials, 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 .”
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Steve Hilton
Mike
Mar 31, 2010 @ 13:53:29
This forward crossed my screen about a week ago. I read it and then decided to ignore it for one simple reason:
The original document – The Constitution – ALREADY anticipates and requires everything this proposed amendment would require.
Now, if those arrogant bastards in WDC can blithely ignore the demands of the original Constitution without fear of consequence, exactly WHY would they suddenly respect an amendment – a redundancy of what they routinely ignore?? It makes no sense at all, not to mention that passing this proposed amendment would call into question the intent of the authors of the original document. The obvious redundancy would be extremely confusing on an interpretive level.
This is a real feel-good way to think, maybe, but on a practical level, it’s nothing but pointless and dangerous fluff. What we really need is a grass-roots resolve to force our “public servants” to follow the entire Constitution AS WRITTEN. There must be a swift and painful consequence when they try to ignore it. When we allow them to ignore the parts of it that they feel any antipathy toward, we have allowed them to trash the whole document.
That Constitution is either the law of the land or it’s a farce, one or the other…
Cashu
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Apr 01, 2010 @ 19:07:04
I agree to a point Carl, that the Constitution should prevent it, but it doesn’t spell it out. It’s like the interpretation of the Commerce Clause and it’s broadness that would allow government to require you to buy a product and penalize you if you don’t. It will take 8 years to test it in the SCOTUS, and obviously, reading the vagueness of wording (I’ve heard it described this way) would allow them to do this. An actual 28th amendment worded this way would never pass, because it exactly identifies the criminals, and they just wouldn’t have that…so it would die for a second. Either some change happens in November…and I already hear backpeddling…or I see either a called Constitutional Convention or a Secession movement.