Amendment 28 to the US Constitution?

I received this article from my e-mail about 3 months ago. It is sort of a chain letter. I normally do not respond to letters like this, but the argument that we need to add amendment #28 to the US constitution makes sense to me. Read the article and see if you agree with me.

"No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.

A most recent news on Fox indicated that staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. There is another news circulating in the Internet as follows:

35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government

Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention. This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, 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... 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. If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

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/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."

Along this same subject, last August my first article on the US Constitution was posted on Viewshound. It received a Badge " Article Read 250 Times".

Test your knowledge of the US Constitution by reading the ViewsHound article below. For example, do you know how many articles are there in the US Constitution? What is the most popular Amendment? When was the exact date of its ratification? Do you know at least 3 of the signers of this document? Do you know the preamble by memory?

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