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Signatures:
  2 (Goal: 5,000)

Petitioning: U.S. taxpayers interested in health care reform

Petitioner: Reddtexan started on September 17, 2009

We, the undersigned, come together to insist on the alteration of the laws and Constitution of the United States of America such that the only retirement and medical plan that the tax dollars of this nation can afford any past, present or future elected official is Social Security and Medicare, as these programs apply to the majority of American citizens, and that no tax dollars can be applied as salary, matching funds or contribution to any other form of retirement or medical insurance programs on behalf of the elected official or any of their family members.

Our request is based on the following:
We – the undersigned and people of the United States – know that these elected officials will never fix either of these programs as long as the problems with these programs can never be theirs or their family’s problems.

We – the undersigned and people of the United States – know that these elected officials have removed funds from both of these programs, such that Social Security and Medicare are destined to go bankrupt, to further their immediate political aims.
We – the undersigned and people of the United States – know that these elected officials consider both Social Security and Medicare sufficient to meet the needs of the American citizen. We know this from their own actions of placing billions into banks, but not one penny into either of these programs.
We – the undersigned and people of the United States – know that these elected officials, who consider both Social Security and Medicare sufficient for the citizens of this nation, will have no objection to receiving the same consideration for our Government as the majority of us do.
We – the undersigned and people of the United States – choose not to judge these elected officials on their words, but on their actions.
Sincerely,