Hopefully it prescribes a process. Otherwise we're dead in the water.
The People no longer trusts the EXEMPT Congress.
Only a fool would believe the LIARS, who have lied
and lied and protected treason, fraud, destruction of
federal documents, and criminal activities
... as they get drunk every single day.
Paging the great one!
People in States don’t want to stop the fiscal insanity. Most of them just want their federal pork to keep coming in.
The biggest flaw in the original Constitution, imo, was letting the feds decide members of the Supreme Court.
And to worsen this problem, state lawmakers ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up their voices in Congress. Now the crooks that fool voters into electing them to the Senate are deciding who’s going to be on the Supreme Court.
The bottom line is that the 17th Amendment needs to disappear. And the repeal amendment needs to have a provision which optionally gives a 2/3 majority of state legislatures the power to remove activst justices from the bench since the Senate cannot always be trusted to work with the House to do so.
I’d like to see the language of a Balanced Budget Amendment. How can we go to war and not go into debt? Do we raise taxes during war to keep the fight going? Are there any sitauations where the nation can run a defecit?
During the Reagan years, the left tried to cite defecits as a hollow excuse to try to stop nuclear weapons build up that brought the USSR to its’ knees. Sometimes a temporary defecit is a necessity (my mortgage for instance). This all comes down to the language.
Call me cynical, but the power brokers/Oligarchs up in D.C. know full well what this would mean to their grasp on power...they'll not let that happen folks.
Maybe I'm wrong, but splain to me why this has not ALREADY happened and or where the process currently stands.
Heck, even a conservative state like Texas...I've heard nada, zilch about a push in the state legislature regarding Article V convention of the states.
Hmmm, I spoke w/Hermann Cain on the air last year about Article V. I might as well have been talking to a wall.
Glad to see he has come around.
You can only balance the budget by doing one or more of the following:
1) raise taxes
2) bring all troops home
3) cut promised Social Security benefits
Be prepared to pick one.
It’s a scam perpetrated against the American people by socialist state, county and city politicians and businesses connected to them...
* To get enough control over the federal government to increase the flow of pork and influence to state, county and city governments.
* To get more legal immunities.
* And to further violate the constitutional rights of citizens with increasing police state policies.
* To rob us of our private properties and right to work with more state and local regulations.
* To violate our Second Amendment right by repealing the Second Amendment.
They won’t get anywhere with it and cannot win. Many local, truly conservative organizations (including local organizations for our right to keep and bear arms) have already set up layers of obstacles against those socialists wanting to subvert our Constitution and wage war against the U.S.A. from within.