Constitutional Amendment 28 Will Give Power To The People

This movement will work and it can be done in one of two ways.  Congress can pass a Constitutional Amendment requiring a majority, online vote of the people before legislation is enacted into law.  Two-thirds (2/3) of the states must ratify such an Amendment.  Another way to pass a Constitutional Amendment is by putting it on state ballots, bypassing congress completely.  This requires ratification by a three-fourths (3/4) of the states.

Members of congress will never voluntarily give Americans the online voting right.  We the people will have to do it on our own, by passing an Amendment and ratifying it in three-fourths of the states.  Members of congress are addicted to their power and many of them truly believe they know better than the people who elected them what is best for the people who elected them.  Congress is only.000004% of all American voters and we the people are allowing this .000004% of Americans to destroy America.

Case in point; the House and Senate passed The Affordable Care Act despite outrage from a majority of American voters.  In 2010, many of those members of congress were replaced in The House of Representatives, but they were replaced too late.  The damage was done.  The Affordable Care Act was already passed.

We are now facing multiple issues with The Affordable Care Act.  The issues are so bad that members of congress have exempted themselves and their staff from the Act.  Once again, they have put their own well being over the well being of the people who elected them to office.   The final word on legislation before it is enacted must be taken away from congress and given to the people. 

Congress will still have a very important job; to propose and pass laws for the voter consideration.  After the law is passed by congress, and signed by The President,  the American voter must have 72 hours to log into a secure site and vote for approval, or rejection of the law.  If a majority vote of the people is for approval, the law is enacted.  If a majority vote of the people is for rejection, the law must go back to congress for further consideration.  It really is that simple and it will work every time.

Will all registered voters log into a site and vote on every law passed by congress?  No, but a large majority will, especially on legislation like The Affordable Care Act.  The majority vote of the people will be the final voice on legislation.  That majority vote must be our check and balance on a congress that does not always do the will of the people.

Would we have The Affordable Care Act today if it had to pass a majority vote of the people?  The polls at the time it was thrust upon us by congress indicate that The Affordable Care Act would not have passed a vote of the people.  The 2010 elections indicate that Americans were upset at members of congress who passed The Affordable Care Act.  Many of those members of congress were voted out of office, but voting them out of office was too late to save Americans from The Affordable Care Act.

Every American voter must have the opportunity to vote on all legislation before he/she has to live under the law.  Such a vote will also put an end to congress passing laws, then exempting themselves from the law without our approval.  It's time for this .000004% of American voters to live under the same laws all other American voters live under.

The wording of a Constitutional Amendment must be simple. Here is an example.

The Congress of The United States is granted power, by the people, to pass legislation and send that legislation to the President of The United States.  The President of The United States may sign the legislation, or exercise veto the veto power granted by the people.

If The President exercises veto power, the legislation will be returned to The Congress of The United States for amendment, or the necessary vote to override the veto of The President of The United States.  If The Congress of The United States does not vote to override the veto of The President of The United States, the bill is considered dead.

If the President of The United States signs legislation sent to him by The Congress of The United States, the legislation will then be posted online for seventy-two (72) hours, during which time all registered voters will have the opportunity to log into a secured website and vote to approve, or reject the legislation.

If a majority of American voters who choose to cast a vote on the legislation vote to approve the legislation, the legislation is enacted into law, on a timeline stated in the legislation.  If a majority of American voters who choose to cast a vote on the legislation reject the legislation, the legislation is returned to The Congress of The United States.  The Congress of The United States may choose to amend the legislation for further consideration by American voters, or kill the legislation.

This Amendment forbids The Congress of The United States, or The President of The United States to take any Executive Action that is not in accordance with legislation as it is approved by a majority of American voters.

The GOP Missed Its Only Opportunity To Defund Obamacare

Congress voted to exempt its members and staffers from the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  I do not blame them for exempting themselves, but I have to ask why republican members of congress did not hold out for extending that exemption to all Americans when they gave it to themselves?  Instead of forcing ACA on congress, why not give Americans the same exemption congress gave itself?

Where should implementation of the ACA not be left up to the individuals who will pay for it?  Why not just let Americans choose to accept, or reject the ACA on an individual basis?  Why not let the ACA be an individual selection, instead of an individual mandate? 

Democrats in congress will argue that the ACA will not work unless there is an individual mandate.  Duh... you think?  Perhaps those who do not want the individual mandate know the ACA will not work, even with the mandate.  Could it be a majority of American voters know better than congress?  Congress is .000004% of American voters, yet they are forcing the ACA on everyone... except themselves. 

What is wrong with that picture?  What is wrong with that picture is the fact that .000004% of Americans are arrogant enough to believe they know what is best for all other Americans.  What is wrong with that picture is the fact that .000004% of Americans are forcing all other Americans to live under laws from which the .000004% is exempt.  What is tragic about it; we Americans allow them to do it.

Personally, I do not want to force the ACA on congress and congressional staffers.  I believe they should be allowed the exemption, but I want the exemption for myself, along with members of congress and their staffers.  Why do members of congress, and staffers, believe they are better than those of us who pay their salaries? They believe it because we allow them to believe it.

Fox News is attempting to get all members of congress to answer whether, or not, they will exempt themselves.  I submit that Fox News should attempt to get the same answer from all congressional staffers.  Perhaps that question posed to staffers may encourage those staffers, who have the ears of congressional members, to fight for exemptions for all other Americans.  Perhaps Fox News should expose the staffers who exempt themselves, the same way the news network works to expose their bosses.

Senator Ted Cruz, while exempting himself and his staffers, is trying to defund the ACA.  He will fail, even though a majority of Americans support his effort.  He could have fought to give the same exemption to Americans that he gave to himself and his staff, but that thought never entered his mind.  Why did he and his republican colleagues in congress not fight that fight for all Americans? 

The answer is simple; Senator Ted Cruz and his colleagues were thinking about themselves when they exempted themselves and staffers.  They were not thinking about their constituents.  It is business as usual for Senator Ted Cruz.  He replaced a fight for his constituents with a fight for his personal agenda.  He is not a hero for attempting to defund the ACA.  He and his colleagues are cowards for not fighting to give all Americans the right to exempt themselves from the ACA.

The republican controlled House of Representatives had voted 40 times to repeal the ACA, knowing every time their bill would go nowhere in The Senate.  How much time did the republicans waste?  Why did those same republicans say no to exempting themselves unless the same exemption was given to all Americans?  The answer is simple; they put personal well being ahead of their constituents.

Why should congress not fight now to give all Americans the exemption they gave themselves?  It's too late now.  The House of Representatives can vote to exempt Americans from the ACA now, but such a vote will go nowhere in The Senate.  The Senate already has what it wants, exemption for its members and their staffers.  Republicans leaped to exempt themselves before they looked for a way to exempt all Americans. 

When will Americans send people to congress who will put their constituents wants and needs ahead of congressional members' personal wants and needs?  The American people have no one to blame but ourselves if we re-elect any member of congress who exempts himself/herself from the personal mandate.