Sunday Stealing on Monday

An email that's making the rounds right now includes the following proposition:

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1.   No Tenure / No  Pension.
A  Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2.   Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All  future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3.  Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4.  Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5.  Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6.  Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American  people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for  themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

Other than Congress, who wouldn't support that?


Sunday Stealing: The Nasty 31 Meme, Part One

1. What has been your longest love relationship?
Jeff- 22.5 years since January 1989, plus the entire year of 1987, for a total of 23.5 years

2. What was the last gift that you received?
a shirt from my in-laws

3. What do you spend your extra cash on?
movies and music

4. If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
I would live in a number of places, but I'm pretty happy right here in the ATX.

5. Who's your cell provider?
AT&T

6. What's your favorite mall store?
Pottery Barn

7. What's the longest job that you've had? (No parenting does not count!)
I have been the website administrator at the Foundation for about 11 years, non-paid, 5-15 hours per week. For another two years before that, I was a twice-a-week office volunteer there.

Paid employment: almost three years as a clinical data analyst, right up until I had my baby girl.

8. If you won the lottery, who'd you call first?
Laura

9. If you won, how would you spend your money after investments?
Long trips to Russia, Greece and Italy.

10. When was the last time you went to church (or a religious house)?
About six weeks ago.

11. When you go out with your friends, where do you go?
Usually a restaurant.

12. When was the last time that you cried?
Thursday.

13. What food do you hate?
Anything that is basically wet bread/cake... like bread pudding, tres leches, French toast, tiramisu, etc. It's a texture/consistency thing. *shiver*

14. What do you like best about yourself?
I appreciate the great "everyday moments" in life.