New Amendment to Eliminate Congressional Privilege

For years Congress could go about its business or monkey business in the confidence that the public was not paying much attention. In the belief that the public was not interested, the major news outlets were content reporting only on major legislation and not bothering with the day-to-day machinations of Congress. But a funny thing, the internet, happened. All of a sudden American citizens were able to access a whole panoply of new sources of information. To the chagrin of politicians, it soon became apparent that inquiring minds were quite interested in what our Representatives and Senators were doing or not doing. 

Even today, the public is still catching up with what our elected officials have done, specifically what they have done for themselves. According to many, what they have done is to create a two-tier system of citizenship; one for themselves and another for the rest of us.


For example, the members of Congress can retire with their same pay after only one term. But these are the same geniuses who are proposing that the rest of us work beyond the age of 65 in order to receive our meager social security benefits. 


These elected officials (the ones who are supposed to be our representatives) have also exempted themselves from Healthcare Reform in order to keep the healthcare package that they have been enjoying for years.


But, even more disgusting, is that they have specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed. For example. they are exempt from prosecution for sexual harassment laws  - laws which they passed for the rest of us. Such laws are justified, but what is not justified is that  they exempted themselves.


As a result of these Congressional shenanigans, there is a movement afoot proposing a 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The proposed amendment would read: "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 Representative that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."


And,  such an amendment would not even influence all the perks they give themselves, such as free foreign travel and their own Congressional Country Club. They would continue to have a plethora of government-paid benefits that most taxpayers could only dream about.