Eliminate current health & retirement plans for Congressmen and place them on the same plans available to non-govt US citizens.
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We require House of Representatives and Senators to act as fiduciaries and represent the people, with our social security, medicare and medicaid funds (SSMM), health care plans and tax dollars.
Members of Congress do not have incentive to protect & support these plans because they will not be recipients of the programs.
Members of Congress acted without fiduciary responsibility or representation by passing generous retirement & health care packages for themselves with our tax dollars (FERS, CSRS), while not participating in the same program restrictions they have designed for their constituents.
As citizens who hire, and pay for Congressional salaries and benefits packages, we have the right to direct the use of tax dollars regarding these issues.
We petition the following to be enacted into legislation, to ensure Congress acts with fiduciary motive and responsibility:
1. Terminate retirement benefit, pension plans, FERS,CSRS, & post retirement health plans received by Senators, House Representatives, and Federal employees* effective 2010.
2. Replace these plans with the same tax-deferred savings plans options, health care plan & SSMM benefit pool that the general private U.S. citizens are allowed to access.
3. Prohibit Congress from voting themselves retirement and benefit plans that do not include providing and paying the identical benefits to each U.S. citizen.
*Military persons who served active duty will continue to receive pensions under existing FERS/CSRS plans in recognition of life-risking service.
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Our tax dollars were never meant to provide for an "elite" government. Congress should definitely be on the same programs that they vote in for the American people unless of course they are not "The American People" in which case they need to be ousted from office. For government employees to have better benefits than the hard working tax payers is beyond absurd.
Marilyn adds:
Of course the American taxpayers are paying through their taxes for our legislators to live an elite extravagant lifestyle, while the taxpayers in many cases scrimp to just get by.
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