In an interview with Warren Buffet which aired on CNBC, Buffet stated that the U.S. deficit spending can be ended, if a constitutional amendment can be passed in which all incumbent members of the U.S. Congress [both congressmen and senators] can become automatically disqualified for reelection each time there is a 3% drop in the GDP.
After a private citizen heard that CNBC interview, he came up with the idea that all U.S. voters --i.e., WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and the "EMPLOYERS" of all appointed and/or elected government/public officials, servants, and workers -- [since it is the THE PEOPLE's taxes which pay for all government/public sector workers' salaries and benefits] -- can unitedly act and pressure the U.S. Congress to pass a Congressional Reformation Act as a constitutional amendment with the following caveats and provisions:
1. All members of Congress [congressmen, senators, and their staff] shall be entitled to receive compensation [base salary and fringe benefits] only as long as the person is in office only, but upon that congressman's and/or senator's term ends for any reason -- [e.g., death, end of term, resignation, or any other reason], all forms of compensated are also terminated, just like any ordinary legal U.S. citizen or resident forfeits all compensation and benefits when he/she dies, resigns, or is fired from his/her place of employment.
2. All past, present, and future members of Congress and their staff shall be required to participate in the exactly the same Social Security System Program (SSSP) like all other legal U.S. citizens and residents.
This means that, all past and present Congressional retirement funds must be immediately transferred and deposited into the same Social Security System Fund (SSSF) to which all other legal U.S. citizens and residents contribute; and all future funds must similarly be deposited into the same SSSF.
Furthermore, all the funds deposited into SSSF account shall be used solely for the original purpose for which it was originally intended since the original inception of the SSSP during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration -- i.e., as a retirement fund for all legal U.S. citizens and/or residents who have actively participated in the SSSP by contributing through payroll deductions into the SSSF while they were still actively employed.
Finally, at no time or reason whatsoever shall Congress use the SSSF for any other purpose, other than the original purpose for which it was designed since the original inception of the SSSP instituted during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.
3. All members of Congress shall be allowed to choose arrange and to purchase his/her own separate retirement plan over and above his/her regular SSS retirement, like all other legal U.S. citizens and residents.
4. All members of Congress shall no longer be allowed to have a separate special health care delivery system, but must instead be subject to the same health care delivery system like all other legal U.S. citizens and residents.
5. All members of Congress shall be required to abide by all federal, state, county, city, and local laws which govern all other ordinary legal U.S. citizens and residents.
6. Congress shall no longer be allowed to pass any legislation and/or vote for any pay raise exclusively members of the U.S. Congress and their staff. Moreover, a congressional member's raise in pay shall be the lower amount of either the latest CPI or 3% of the congressional member's current base salary.
7. All past and present contracts arranged by Congress which gives any and/all members of Congress any kind of "preferential" treatment shall be rendered null and void effective immediately.
Did you know that of the 27 constitutional amendments, 7 took only 1 year or less to become effective because of public pressure by WE, THE PEOPLE of the United States?
Did you also know that the 26th amendment (which granted 18-year-olds the right to vote) took only 3 months & 8 days to be passed and ratified in 1971 simply because WE, THE PEOPLE of the United States demanded it? And in 1971, there were no email, Facebook, Twitter, smart phones, and other personal electronic communication devices yet?
Just imagine what WE, THE PEOPLE of the United States today can accomplish now that we have all of the above-mentioned electronic communication devices! -Author Unknown
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