What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!1

[stlcouponwizard]

Found this interesting: Children of congress members do not have to pay back their college student loans. How nice! Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. Which essentially means that Congressmen's pay is several thousand per year more than their salaries. This pay of course is tax-free. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

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. This is an idea that we should address.

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."

You all are my 20.

I am and will be paying for my Daughters College Education, They both have teaching degrees, Should I pay to Educate them so they can educate the Congress’s kid’s so they can become lawyers and congressmen to make more laws like this one. I think not, and those goof balls in Washington DC can’t figure out how to save our money.



Thanks Nita, (my twin Sis)

pass it on

[Rasha]

Well hells bells too bad I am not a daughter of a congress man! I sure could use mine payed off.

[Allison]

WTF! So the one's who can afford to pay back the loans don't have to while the rest of us struggle. Nice!

[KellyMarie]

I got an email about this a few weeks ago and was totally surprised.......leave it to our great leaders to pass every single thing they can to get a free ticket for themselves.

[Tara]

That is a shame, should not be able to make a law and exempt yourself / family from it.

[stlcouponwizard]

the way I read it the person's staff also gets the perk, I'd sit on my butt and nod my head yes for a free education for the kids

[lh150107]

This is the kind of stuff that upsets me when they couldn't come to an agreement about the debt ceiling etc. All of their monies are guaranteed, but my husbands VA disability check would have been suspended. This is exactly why I have no interest in returning to DC to live.

[Heather]

Why am I not surprised. Just another thing that benefits them.

[wendy1214]

I found this here: http://www.factcheck.org/2011/01/con...student-loans/

Almost sounds like it is like the military, stay in the job and some will be forgiven. It is NOT for their kids, only those working in Congress and participate in the program- hmmmm, andrea wants to go for political science.........

Congress Not Exempt from Student Loans

January 6, 2011
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Q: Is it true that members of Congress, their staffers and their family members do not have to pay back their student loans?

A: Not true. Some congressional employees are eligible to have up to $60,000 of student loans repaid after several years — just like other federal workers. But that’s not the case for members of Congress or their families.

FULL QUESTION

My sister just sent me a chain e-mail that is trying to make a case for a 28th amendment to the Constitution stating that Congress shall make no law that members of Congress are exempt from obeying themselves. The e-mail uses the following example, and I’d like to know if it’s true:

Monday on Fox news they learned that the 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. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

FULL ANSWER

We have received dozens of e-mails asking us if members of Congress and their family members or staffers are exempt from repaying their student loans. Many of those questions include the viral e-mail above or make reference to it or Fox News.

Some of the different questions we have received:

Are members of Congress exempt from repaying student loans?
Are members’ families exempt from having to pay back student loans?
Are children of members of Congress exempted from repaying their student loans?
Do congressional staffers have to pay back their student loans?

The answers are: no, no, no and yes — although some full-time congressional staffers participate in a student loan repayment program that helps pay back a portion of student loans. No more than $60,000 in the House and $40,000 in the Senate can be forgiven and only if the employee stays on the job for several years.

The confusion appears to stem from remarks Fox News political contributor Dick Morris made Aug. 23, 2010, (a Monday) on "The Sean Hannity Show." Morris misrepresented the student loan repayment program, and then his comment was further distorted by the viral e-mail and those who passed it along as fact.

[stlcouponwizard]

Thanks Wendy, that is a little better but I believe still unacceptable if any amount is forgiven unless we get the same which by the way should not happen. It is a burden to pay for higher education for the kids but uncle sam should not be paying for it untill there is a large engough surplus in the budget with out increasing taxes on us to pay for everybidys education. The goverment can sell widgets overseas to rasiee money to spread around, leave our money in our pockets.

[wendy1214]

Oh I agree Neal- especially with one going to college in a year and another 4 years after that!

[stlcouponwizard]

I had twins that went to a privite christian college , I'll go to my grave paying for their education it seems

[KellyMarie]

I have to admit that hubby and I were extremely lucky, JH had a presidential scholarship and all 4 years of his school were completely paid for.

[stlcouponwizard]

I have to admit that hubby and I were extremely lucky, JH had a presidential scholarship and all 4 years of his school were completely paid for.

So what happen to him to get him to this stage, It seems things started out so well for him.

[KellyMarie]

[stlcouponwizard]

JK Kelly, I'm sure you are very proud of JH regardless of some of his ,,,,,,,lets say misfortunes and you should be proud, scolarships are earned not gifted and are quite an achivement.

[KellyMarie]

Oh I know you are kidding Neal

JH took the ACT in his freshman year of HS just because and scored something like a 32 and never bothered taking it again, he figured why bother, he was already getting college for free

[stlcouponwizard]

conserving energy he was, A very useful male trait.

[KellyMarie]

yes, definitely an inherited trait from his father (the conserving energy, not the academic brilliance )

[stlcouponwizard]

kinda like the making of a fine wine, it gets better and more refined as it moves through the generations. His father is very pround also I sure.

[KellyMarie]

Neal you crack me up!

[Heather]