HOW TO FIX CONGRESS & USA DEFICIT

I DON'T KNOW IF WARREN BUFFET SANCTIONED THIS OR NOT BUT I LIKE IT AND IT'S AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME..

HOW TO FIX CONGRESS!
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 2011*

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
1/1/12 .


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.