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Lie Pie Title: Proposed 28th Amendment Editor's Note: If we are going to add another amendment to the Constitution, let's make sure it is worthy of being added. Just for starters, we shouldn't whip up support for it using lies. Fact is, members of Congress can't retire with the same pay after only one term. They are required to pay into Social Security. They aren't exempt from prosecution for sexual harrassment. They aren't exempt from the new health care law. If this proposed 28th Amendment is ever to succeed, we need to try a little harder and come up with some accurate justifications for it. Misplaced outrage produces a bad result every time, honey. --Granny, 3/29/2010 WATCH YOUR STEP: STEAMING VIRAL EMAIL B.S. STARTS HERE An idea whose time has come.
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 didn't pay into Social Security, 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 that is being considered...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 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 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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