It is outrageous that we have witnessed an evolutionary trend that shifted the risk of retirement income security and health care coverage from the shoulders of institutions to the shoulders of individuals.

Elected officials in Washington, D.C. who facilitated this, in compliance with corporations, should pay a personal price for their abuse of power as well as the abuse of the public trust.

I have signed this petition to express my concern that the only way that we will get the attention of the members of Congress is to plead to the U.S. government to discontinue the pension plans and health care benefits to retired, active and future members of Congress. Perhaps they will then understand how vulnerable and anxious the American people feel today.

We will accept nothing less than successful legislation for retirement income security and health care for all Americans.  Kindly sign the petition below to endorse this grassroots movement:

"How many gated communities can we build in this country, surrounded by moats of money, protected by a twisted political system, before those on the outside want in?..... they call that revolution!"

--Thomas J. Mackell, Jr., 2007