No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. military for twenty years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get fifty percent of their pay when they retire, while politicians holding political positions in the safe confines of the Capital, protected by these same men and women, receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just doesn't make any sense.
For too long, we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress can retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws that they have passed (such as being exempted from prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under their laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from healthcare reform in all of its aspects. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not need an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
Therefore, a proposed 28th amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to all members of Congress, and Congress shall make no law which applies to its members that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."
Rico says it doesn't have a hope in hell of passing, but it's an interesting notion...
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