In a breath of fresh air, 97 state lawmakers from 32 states descend on Mount Vernon, VA to amend the Constitution.
Congress usually amends the Constitution, but our founding fathers created a fail safe in case of a runaway federal government: Convention of States
2/3 of state legislators must approve an application for a COS to occur. State legislatures would then send one delegate to the convention. For an amendment to become a part of the Constitution, it would have to be approved by three-fourths, or 38, of the state legislatures.
On Saturday, state lawmakers discussed:
1) Term Limits
2) Balanced Budget Amendment.
3) Taxing and spending limits.
The war for your freedom is on the line here!
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First of all they’re two states short of being a legitimate Convention. Second, not a damn thing they’re supposedly presenting is going to stop the globalists or right the ship of state!
A bunch of card carrying conservatives is band-aid proposals is NOT going to rid us of our debt based monetary system, restore state representation in the Senate, or remove the curse of the Income Tax from our businesses and people.
If a convention is convened I suspect they will be replacing our Constitution with one more suitable to the globalist ideals and American patriots will have no other choice but go to war… these ignorant jackals are playing a dangerous game with the future of our Republic.
How do you know this action will not get rid of our debt based monetary system and the IRS?
shut up
It will make many drop their guard.
Republicans and Democrats are offence and defence for the same team!
Negative Publius87. If you actually read up on Article 5 conventions they can only add amendments and can not touch one word in any amendments in the original constitution. They can add too it but not take away from. At least somebody is trying to do something rather than complain about things.
It is just a ploy to appease the people! War is inevitable.
I see nothing patriotic in this kind of activity, and to a vast number of Americans the misbegotten connection between what is happening here and the people who founded this country, providing us with a Constitution that flexes and bends with the winds of change is nothing more than certain people patting themselves on the head.
All of the problems cited in the article are concerns we all share, but as usual, other approaches other than a “convention of business lackeys” have been rejected by the “collective of business lackeys” that is as a whole about as subtle in its anti-government stance as a hydrogen bomb.
Take tax reform: The usual talking point is that individuals pay too much, which in many cases is absolutely true, but when huge multinationals are given huge tax breaks, loopholes, and are armed with entire armies of tax lawyers so expensive that individuals couldn’t come close to reaching the level of income they’d need to hire one. The consequence? When corporate and business tax rates go down, individual tax rates go up.
Instead of being truly rational, however, the bait-and-switch is that Republicans in the past have baited potential voters with promises of tax cuts and then indeed cut the taxes, only to turn right around and borrow the money from the commercial sector that is really out of control: the banks.
Debt is your tax cuts at work. Of course, the propagnada on the conservative side of the scales of justice is so thick and thick-headed, that individuals have been primed like dynamite is primed by blasting caps in terms of the 300 or more angry, anti-government right-wing hate-machine bought-and-paid-for propagandists better known as AM radio hogs. Clearly, to the narcissistic plutocrats who buy those experts in personal attack, smaller government is only a means to an end: less freedom and no alternatives at all beyond the loyalty / disloyalty pair of options employees in America face every day in terms of being at risk of “termination”. Such a nice word, isn’t it? No dissenting employee output allowed. No employee stake in the profits or losses of the company (and Big Business is wondering where employee enthusiasm has gone….), no true freedom of speech at the workplace, no freedom to assemble and challenge the tyranny of owners and professionals, no right to privacy in that computer use by employees is monitored for “productivity”, and all-too-often even the employees have to dress like Philadelphia lawyers–even as their professional counterparts get “clothing allowances”, perks unimaginable to employees.
We talk about “out-of-control government” while seeking to put commercial activity above the law in terms of the kind of deregulation that led directly to the 2008 downturn.
And if the federal government seems deaf to the concerns of individuals, who was it that pushed-through a wholesale repudiation of campaign finance reform? Conservatives built that. I feel so much better that some casino owner who seems to be drunk 24/7 has more “freedom of speech” because the SCOTUS decided in Citizens United v FEC that money not only talks it screams. The Koch brothers have about 200,000,000 times more freedom of speech than I do, and I want them off the soapbox.
Sorry, guys, but your obstructionism at the federal level has hurt the American people because, in your squelchy little worlds, money is freedom and human beings don’t matter at all.