Tell Congress: No Deal, No Break
Friday, January 11 2013
Are you tired with the way members of Congress continue to avoid doing their jobs? Our political system is broken and it’s time for the American public to demand better.
Tell Congress: No Deal, No Break is a nonpartisan campaign delivering a simple message to Washington: don’t take any breaks until you reach a deal that brings our debt to a sustainable level.
Join the cause and sign the petition on Facebook to join a growing movement of concerned citizens who have a simple request for Congress – please do your job. Congress can show America it’s serious about fixing our problems by at least showing up for work full time.
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The campaign is led by a group of nonpartisan organizations concerned about America’s future, including the Comeback America Initiative, The Can Kicks Back, the Common Sense Coalition, and The Concord Coalition.
If you are part of an organization that may be interested in joining this effort, please email: dontcomehome@tcaii.org
we all need time off but we all need time on task as well. unless you are skyping every day all day you are not at work.
Please reach an agreement on managing our fiscal policy and debt before taking any further time off.
Sincerely, Ed Siegel
Fix the problems in this country now!
Lets get to work to get our country back on track
Stop giving in to Obama’s whims and wishes. Stop Socialism is its TRACKS NOW!
Enough all ready. We just ask that you apply yourselves like the people who elected you have to.
Please,get it done!
Only makes sense. We ask our employees to balance their business/family life based a five day work week, I personally balance a seven day week.
Congressman should not be paid when they are out of the office on personal time.
If you would pass a law for citizen funded elections, you could get off the merry-go-round of fund raising that has completely buggered the electoral process. We as citizens are not blind to the fact that what you do most of the time is raise money for your next election. This is stupid, and NOT the way this country was meant to work. SURELY you are as sick of it as we are! Citizen funded elections are the answer. You don’t HAVE to be beholden to big money interests. If you are a decent person, you didn’t go into politics to be a money raising machine. Let’s see some responsibility to your constituents, not to individual rich people and corporations!
Get to work – find ways to help to system work more efficiently – give your staff a day off. Be respectful to those you work for and spend less time calling for money and earn the money already allowed to you for doing YOUR JOB!!!
Part of being my representative is doing your work in each session. Stay there and get it done!!
The last congress passed less bill than any other in the last 40 years. Congress should be paid the number of bills they pass.
If I could, I would throw all members on Congress out on the street. I am proud to say that I did not vote for any incumbent in the recent election. They are all a part of the problem.
Dear Congress,
Are you kidding me? I would like to see any member of congress tell me with a straight face why you get paid and why you get a vacation.
Thank you,
Greg Marso
Our Washington Law makers need to go back to the good ol functional days, spending many more weeks in Washington doing their jobs, instead of going home and raising funds for the next election. AND WE NEED TO GET THE RICH ELITE CLUB AND MONEY OUT OF OUR POLITICAL PROCESS(GREED) so all law makers will represent main street instead of their Wall Street and their Lobbying buddies.
Thank you
Thank you for this chance.
Especially this session, there are some pressing issues that must be addressed.
Especially this session, there are some pressing issues that must be addressed. Congress should stay and work together until some decisions are made.
Like the rest of the country if we don’t finish our job we don’t get paid.
Who gets the amount of vacation then our congress?
If they don’t work they should not get paid.
Please show up to your jobs like we do daily 5 days a week and 50 weeks out of 52…. now after showing up, wake up and get to work team. Work to make our nation whole and one together in a common cause.
If they do their jobs, we’ll all have a vacation away from this seemingly endless political BS!
NO DEAL… NO BREAK
Its very easy to go on break when you are not spending your own money
Get to work – together!
Stop worrying about getting reelected and do what is
right for the people of this country.TRY TELLING US
THE TRUTH about the financial condition of this country.
Get to work boys and girls to get this Country back on track! My 14 and 11 year old daughters beg you to help save their future!
WE do NOT and WILL NOT use facebook. The link to sign the petition without using facebook goes to this page and the link her to “sign the petition or sign up for updates here” only leads to the signup for updates, not to signing the petition. Therefor I have been unable to sign the petition.
Do your job!
We agree wholeheartily!!! Thanks for pushing this initiative.
I wish you would start a movement to deny (not defer) congress their pay if they don’t pass a budget. Also, make them use Social Security and the same health care that the rest of us have. I know this would require a constitutional amendment, but I think it would pass the states easily right now. Please think about pushing this.
Thanks,
SuAnn and Russ Vandevelde
Birmingham, AL
Keep up the great work Comback America Initiative! I have some hope things will get better eventually with your intelligent leadership and the people’s increased knowledge of what is REALLY going on. Thank you, and keep turning up on Morning Joe and other programs that share the truth and offer some ideas and solutions for America.
I urge congress to give up on their vacation. You seem to enjoy a vacation in Washington, being wined and dined by lobbyists. Shame on you!
Keep working on reducing the level of federal spending so we can begin “living within our means”. I have 2 sons, ages 18 and 22, and they are, as am I, very concerned about the direction our country is heading in. How can their generation pay the cost of all the debts the current generation is leaving them? We all know this is unsustainable and we have to reign in the entitlement programs in order to balance the budget. Please stay in Washington and work on solutions to these most urgent problems.
Please, please get to work solving our nation’s problems. Don’t leave Washington until substantial progress is made. Have the courage and moral fortitude to be a statesman instead of a politician.
tried to sign petition–no f-book account, so no access. [sad face]
Politicians should be paid what the national average is for wages, get the same health care as your average citizens, work 40 hours a week and do their Fnnnnnnnnn job!!! also only get the national holidays off as we do.
Please get back to work.Most have to work a year to get a week off. I know you are working at home.
Please work together to come up with a deal. I worry for my children as I am afraid that this national debt will cause them to have no future. I believe if gas prices went down drastically, our economy would turn around!! I wonder if anyone would be willing to test this theory??
There are so many people “out there” who simply do not vote because “it” does no good or it does not matter which party is in, they are all the same. We would not need term limits if people would vote especially in the Primaries where it starts. Include in your/our movement Congress MUST take a 25% pay cut, no congressional insurance plan or retirement package. Shake things up more.