This is America!
I don’t go to Snopes. I don’t go to Factcheck.org. I just get things in my email and I believe them completely. So from now on every time I get something in my email that sounds really logical and should make me really mad, I’m just gonna post it. Starting with this gem!
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that Congress members 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.
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 Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.”
If each person sends this to a minimum of twenty people on their address list, in three days, all people in The United States of America would have the message. I believe this is one proposal that really should be passed around.
OK – so not only is this a totally plausible sounding crazy rant, but it is also a weird piece of chain-letter math. Is that true? 20 people? Everyone in America? That can’t be true, can it? What about babies? I mean, other than that creepy e-trade baby. Babies don’t have email!
Snopes is a good site
and that is a great pic 🙂
Shared on Twitter. I don’t know how to show the link though! I’m inept, what can I say?
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I would like a parking space at work with my name on it. And an intern. And some jet plane rides.
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Well, that’s more like some Mexican thing to me!!
I propose that we amend the constitution with a revolution and we should also sell Minnesota to Canada because those people are too stupid to be Americans…Al Franken…nuff said.
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Um…on behalf of Canada, I respectfully submit that we don’t want your stupid people. Anyway, I thought that was written on Lady Liberty: “Give us your poor, your tired, your stupid masses…”
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Fuck Lady Liberty…it was a gift from the fucking French anyway…
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Exponential math…hmm….might be plausible. But most people over 60 don’t know what email is. Or if they do, they can’t seem to figure it out. So besides kids under ten and all the people over 60, everyone would see it.
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Dear One of the guys….it is a geometric progression and although i am over 60 I can do the math and have emailed and done my banking since the early 90s. I suggest you might be more open to the possibility that someone beside yourself might know a couple of things.
I don’t go to Snopes for verification of govt “emails” either, as Snopes tends to lean way too left for my liking. They pass or fail based on what mr obama and his sheople stand to get most out of it.
So, like snopes denying that congress hasn’t set it up to retire with salary, and to disallow them and theirs from Obamacare, I don’t believe their “false” debunking.