EXPLAINABLE,  INEXCUSABLE  No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.

Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop? 35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention. This is an idea that we should address. 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 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... 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. If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, 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 ."

Kitten here, received this in email, so I don't know when this was on Fox. I doubt this proposed 28th Amendment would ever make it, although I like the idea. I'm personally tired of Congress granting things to themselves that don't apply to their employers, the citizens of the United States. A lot of stuff makes it around the Internet saying Congress this and Congress that, and with a little research, turns out not to be true, but in my humble opinion, Congress should not receive any benefit of any sort that does not also apply to each and every citizen of the US.


I've done a little research and found a few links that refer to possible 28th Amendments. Interesting, check it out.


http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/28thamendment.asp
http://kgarry.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/the-proposed-28th-amendment-to-the-constitution/
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/proposed-28th-amendment-to-the-constitution/question-2406671/