CONGRESS AND THE SENATE SHOULD RECEIVE CUTS TO THEIR BENEFITS, NOT THE NEEDY
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Mar 11th, 2017Raymond W. from Frederick, CO writes:
You worthless *******s deserve nothing. Go **** yourselves Congress! -
Mar 11th, 2017Someone from Boulder, CO signed.
Mar 11th, 2017RICHARD H. from Warren, MA signed.
Mar 9th, 2017Someone from Pasadena, CA writes:
Congress, quit stealing from the middle class. You should be in the same boat as the rest of america. Its ridiculous for you to decide what the people deserve when we are the ones paying for your lifetime cadillac health insurance, great pensions etc? You are total and complete hypocrites. Especially Republicans!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 9th, 2017Someone from New York, NY signed.
Mar 9th, 2017Someone from Palmyra, PA writes:
It's time Congress takes some cuts on health care and not the middle class.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 9th, 2017Johanna W. from Tallahassee, FL writes:
Every senator and representative should be required to access and pay for their own health insurance. Maybe then they would understand what millions of Americans face when they have no employer or government agency subsidizing their health care.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 8th, 2017Thomas B. from Rathdrum, ID writes:
Let's not forget the many reasons why we are here today. Both parties are to blame for the total corruption and cluster pile our country is in! Personal interest above your fellow Americans and country's needs. The greed and insatiable appetite of the top 1% and all of you who participate , disgusts me greatly! Stealing from the downtrodden and stepping on the necks of the middle class has been your rallying cry.. History of Congressional raiding of our funds in the Social Security programs is well documented. Following corporate interest and greed above the the wellbeing of it's citizens is also well documented. We no longer will sit quietly by and let you hurt the 99%! The spotlight is on each of you. We are what makes this country great despite your efforts and that of the narcissistic Bozo in the White House! My sincere Apologies to the dedicated members of Congress who actually fight for us. Your efforts do not go unnoticed and each of you have my heartfelt thanks and admiration! I absolutely support having Congress be required to utilize the same medical system that we all use. Without of course all the perks and subsidies you guys currently enjoy that none of your constituents get! I urge members of Congress who support the American people to support this petition and make it so!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 8th, 2017Jamie C. from Suttons Bay, MI writes:
Many of you have forgotten, or never really cared that- you work for the benefit of the nation as a whole. Not for yourself, your personal agenda or your own wallet first. You work for the people, whether they voted for you or not* Having so much, it has become apparent that elitism has swayed your attentions. Shameful and disrespectful; of yourself and those you work for.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 8th, 2017Jamie C. from Suttons Bay, MI writes:
Many of you have forgotten, or never really cared that- you work for the benefit of the nation as a whole. Not for yourself, your personal agenda or your own wallet first. You work for the people, whether they voted for you or not* Having so much, it has become apparent that elitism has swayed your attentions. Shameful and disrespectful; of yourself and those you work for.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 8th, 2017Someone from Philadelphia, PA signed.
Mar 7th, 2017Someone from Portland, OR writes:
I believe politicians will never fully take care of American citizens healthcare as long as they continue to have the over-the-top benefits they get for working for the government. They should have the same form of healthcare the general population has. Imagine how quickly things would get fixed if they, and their families, had the same healthcare as the average citizen.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 7th, 2017Veronica H. from Marion, IA writes:
It's high time we, the working poor stop paying for the healthcare for the wealthy members of our government! We are your employers and I think it's time for a reality check! Your income needs to be reduced to minimum wage, you need to pay for your own healthcare. You must show up for work every day and be a productive part of the government or lose your job. Anyone caught on their phone during Sessions will promptly be fired. There will be no tolerance for childish behavior, if you cannot be an adult and work well with others, you will be fired. There will be zero tolerance for any divergence from these rules! This is how we taxpayers have to live, so should our employees in the government.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 6th, 2017Kathleen H. from Framingham, MA writes:
CUT TAXPAYERS FUNDED HEALTH INSURANCE FOR CONGRESSREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 5th, 2017Someone from Albuquerque, NM writes:
If my healthcare goes... I promise to sign every petition I can find and hound my Representatives until everyone is on a level playing field! You people are public servants... NOT the freaking elite!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 4th, 2017Deborah V. from Boston, MA writes:
Unless you don't have any monetary concerns, (I am stressed just buying my groceries!) and are perfectly happy paying out all the retirements and multiple other perks politician receive then this doesn't apply to you! If you are not bothered that they call our Social Security and Medicare an "ENTITLEMENT SERVICE" which we have paid into all our working lives...then this doesn't apply to you either. If you would like to see politicians live and pay as we do...then you may want to start making some noise! If so SIGN & SHARE. I am also going to print this letter and send it to Mr. Trump,1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500. Also to Senator Elizabeth Warren & Senator Edward Markey. I'm tired of HOPING for CHANGE! See Petition below if you wish to, at the very least, possibly change things for future generations! Or know you've tried... I wish you Peace & ProsperityREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 4th, 2017Deborah V. from Boston, MA writes:
I have made this into a petition. Just copy the title & you should find it. It's not enough to complain, we have to USE OUR VOICES and direct these complaints to the White House. I am also printing and sending this letter by mail to Mr. Trump, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500 and I'm going to call my relevant politicians to let my thoughts know in my district. We can all do the same. I think a few minutes of our time is worth it! Let's get WORKING TOGETHER! Peace and Prosperity....Deborah VREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 28th, 2017Ruth Ann C. from Chaffee, MO signed.
Feb 25th, 2017Someone from Independence, KY signed.
Feb 25th, 2017Someone from Fenton, MO writes:
Agree, Congress and Senate should receive same insurance and only ss like average Americans who pay for all of this. They only work around 101 days to start and average starting salary is around 174k. Ridiculous. Also no more subsidies to hollywood. Strip obamacare and penalties. Let us get actual insurance that we can afford and use without sky high deductibles which then makes it where you can't use.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 24th, 2017Someone from s h, FL writes:
Americans demand the same healthcare as Congress. Congress does not earn a paycheck from hardworking taxpayers. Daily Comment On Health Care, We?ll Have What Congress Is Having By Jeffrey Frank January 17, 2017 In the fall of 1994, the Clinton Administration?s much debated comprehensive, and complicated, health-insurance bill?known derisively as Hillarycare?died quietly on Capitol Hill. It was a moment that, the Princeton sociologist Paul Starr later argued, would ?go down as one of the great lost political opportunities in American history.? But, before the end, talk of another approach kept bubbling up: to allow those Americans who couldn?t get insurance elsewhere to buy a policy that was just as good, and inexpensive, as what members of Congress got. When Senator Edward M. Kennedy, of Massachusetts, said that Americans should get ?exactly what we have,? he meant the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. The F.E.H.B.P., as it?s known, was started in 1959, a few years before Medicare, and was meant to cover some nine million government employees?civil-service workers, the courts, the Post Office, members of Congress, and more. It wasn?t a single plan but, rather, as a Times story put it, ?a supermarket offering 300 private health plans.? (Even the right-learning Heritage Foundation called it ?a showcase of consumer choice and free-market competition.?) One may get a sense of its scope and inclusiveness?its supermarket-ness?in the way that the Office of Personnel Management, which administers the program, explains it to federal employees. Much of the program?for instance, the idea that no one can be refused, or charged more, for a preëxisting condition, or that dependents under twenty-six are covered?will sound familiar to anyone conversant with the most attractive parts of the Affordable Care Act. In the summer of 1994, when the Clinton Administration struggled to win approval for its proposal, there were some signs of actual good will in Congress, along with the predictable determination to dynamite the whole idea. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat, wanted any insurer who sold policies to federal workers to offer the same thing to ?civilians,? at a reasonable price. Bob Dole, a Kansas Republican and the Minority Leader, favored a scheme in which self-employed individuals and small businesses (employers of up to fifty workers) could buy the federal policy ?at the same premium price.? There were several variations of this approach. Then it all went bad, as it had gone bad since the days of the New Deal. Newt Gingrich, who was then the deputy Minority Leader of the House, warned President Clinton that he was endangering his entire agenda in the pursuit of health-care reform?in particular, Gingrich insisted that Clinton was risking a global trade agreement that was probably never in danger. (Someone probably can still explain that era?s excitement over the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT.) Dole by then had given up, and so had Congressman John Dingell, of Michigan, a Democrat, who had been pushing health-care reform since 1955 but eventually said that it was ?time to give health-care reform a decent burial and provide for its rebirth.? Two months later, in the midterm elections, Democrats, although they managed to cling to the Senate, lost the House by the widest margin since the midterms of 1946; Gingrich was elected Speaker on the strength of his ?Contract with America,? which made a number of promises that were impossible to keep, and in the process launched an era of rabid partisanship. The failure of health-care reform showed mostly that Democrats were a pushover party, with few sounding like Senator Bob Kerrey, of Nebraska, who said, ?I?m not elected to read the polls and say the public wants me to give up.? The ?rebirth? for which Dingell hoped would only come a decade and a half later, with the passage, in 2010, of the Affordable Care Act. For all its flaws, bumbled launch, and absence of Republican support, the A.C.A. has provided health insurance to some twenty million Americans who didn?t have it before. Republicans have been venomously eager to dismantle it ever since. Late last week, the Senate took a big step in that direction by passing a budget ?blueprint? that will make it easy for Congress, controlled by Republicans, to repeal the act. If it?s sometimes hard to understand what makes Republican legislators so angry, here is a theory: their fury may not stem from some ungraspable principle, or hatred of President Obama?s historic victory (or of Obama himself), but, rather, from something personal, and selfish. Under the A.C.A., members of Congress, and congressional staff, among other Capitol Hill employees, were no longer eligible for the F.E.H.B.P. In the chilly language of government directives, the Office of Personnel Management Web site said that ?Section 1312 of the Affordable Care Act requires that Members of Congress and their official staff obtain coverage by health plans created under the Affordable Care Act or coverage offered via an Affordable Insurance Exchange.? Ouch! In other words, the comfortable choices that were available for more than fifty years were suddenly transferred to the slightly murky passageways of Obamacare. And it follows that, if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, members of Congress would be able to return to the federal plan that they, like millions of federal employees, were so fond of. Twenty million other Americans won?t. A better idea, though, might be to find a path (it won?t be easy, but it?s certainly easier than anything else that might be effective and that hundreds of legislators could ever agree upon) to finally offer the beloved, and by most accounts well-administered, federal plan to the rest of the uninsured nation. We can almost hear America demanding, ?We want what they?re having.? If Congress is serious about repealing, and replacing, the act, then that?s the sort of replacement that almost anyone could live with. Jeffrey Frank, a former senior editor of The New Yorker and the author of ?Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage,? is working on a book about theREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 18th, 2017Someone from Santa Monica, CA writes:
Congress should get the same health care benefits as the rest of the population. Only then will they be motivated to improve conditions for the rest of the population.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 18th, 2017Someone from Glen Burnie, MD writes:
I have wondered about this for years. It's time we turn the tables. Maybe if they have the same benefits we have, they'd care more about making it better for everyone and not just themselves. Thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 11th, 2017Someone from Moab, UT writes:
cut the salaries and their health insurance.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 9th, 2017Someone from Carlsbad, CA writes:
Compare this to the military- people who truly make a sacrifice. It is terrible how these people (Congress) take advantage!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 8th, 2017Someone from Melbourne, FL writes:
How can this petition sign get on a ballot and voted upon, since these people work for people in her/his state. Enough is enough. Plus servicing only 8 No life stuff. Tired of killing of middle class get rid of seniors. How about these people. I do feel to many jobs unnessary like pencil sharper, oh should be charging ipads we need to get this forwardREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 8th, 2017Barbara F. from Bourbonnais, IL writes:
In life when a family is having money problems the parents cut their extras before the denie their children. Citizens have a hard time believing there is a true money problem when the only cuts are to programs for the "children". Along with that the greed it takes to increase taxes or take money out of the "childrens" funds i.e. Social Security etc., to pay for their own perks. Of course its never called "to make sure we get our perks". The greed, selfishness, and lack of real concern for the, "children", citizens that work unbelievable hours just to make ends meet most times get close to meeting while you sit in you expensive offices enjoying all your perks just sickens me. From now on I will NOT vote for any politician who has been in office for more than one term. For some time now I do my best to vote people out rather than vote people in. Except for this president. I have never been so scared of our country's fate as I am now.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 7th, 2017Someone from Lilburn, GA writes:
Congress should receive no pension, & should have to participate in Social Security. Congress should not receive free healthcare, & should have to participate in the same public health insurance marketplace that citizens use. It should be illegal for Congress to trade on insider information. Just like it is for American Citizens.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 6th, 2017Deanna W. from Lexington, KY signed.
Feb 4th, 2017Someone from Tilton, NH writes:
When YOU have better coverage than the average american, better pay for LESS work,You should live on what we live on and work the same as us!!!!! and LEAVE OUR SSI ALONE!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 3rd, 2017Kathy Jo W. from Grants Pass, OR signed.
Jan 31st, 2017Someone from Anderson, SC signed.
Jan 28th, 2017margaret B. from New Orleans, LA writes:
It is obvious that our congressmen have forgotten they are public servants. They are to do our bidding, and are paid by us. It is time to stop all perks. They should receive social security for time served and get and pay for their own insurance as the public they serve does. Perhaps , then, they would think about what is good for the public, because they would once again be part of the public.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 26th, 2017Someone from Seattle, WA writes:
Make Senate and Congress find their own medical insurance and pay full price for it. They certainly have not worked for any benefit (even their pay) for the last 8 years. And there should be no pension unless they have worked for the government for 30 years and be age 66. Let's get as hard on Senators and Congressmen as they are on the American people.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017sherry o. from Holland, MI signed.
Jan 24th, 2017Someone from Bridgeport, WV writes:
What a shame that the middle class suffers while members of Congress have their own health care, pensions that are out of control, and so many other perks. Please consider cuts that will maybe inconvenience you a little but not devastate the middle and lower classes of the people you are in Washington to serve.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Vanessa M. from Astoria, NY signed.
Jan 23rd, 2017Cara M. from Chesterfield, MO signed.
Jan 23rd, 2017Mark E. from Waterford, PA writes:
It's my government and I want it now! If Congress wants to fix the health care system they should start with giving us (their employers) the same insurance they have access to.REPORT COMMENTS
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