Posted on 02/04/2016 11:58:25 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
LEESBURG, Va. - Republican Presidential candidate, Senator Ted Cruz, is the first to sign the U.S. Balanced Budget Amendment pledge to the citizens of the United States of America. His pledge is that he will "preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution including Article V which, in part, empowers two-thirds of the states to draft and the people in three-quarters of the states to ratify a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
The U.S. federal government has run up a debt of over 19 trillion dollars, largely to underwrite past and present consumption using resources that should belong to future Americans. The debt continues to grow. Congress has shown itself unable or unwilling to operate within its limits. Never before in the history of this country has one generation left the next generation in such a precarious fiscal situation.
Senator Cruz stated, “the Washington Cartel has put special interest spending ahead of the American people, driving our nation's debt to over $19 trillion. A child born today is already $59,000 in debt and that is just wrong. It is clear to me that only the states can fix this problem.”
Momentum is building fast in the pursuit of this state-driven amendment designed to reign-in the excessive spending of Congress.
Article V of the Constitution provides both Congress and the states with the exact same authority to propose a balanced budget amendment. Under Article V, it takes 34 states to apply for a convention to propose an amendment and 38 states to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Joseph Semprevivo & David Biddulph, Co-founders of the BBATF1, noted, “today is a great day in America because the signing of the BBA Pledge shows that the leading Republican Presidential Candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, is focused on stripping the power from the Washington Cartel and handing it back to the people." "The ability of states to propose amendments was put in the Constitution to address the very circumstance we find ourselves in today, namely an unresponsive and out-of-control Congress that refuses to deal with critical issues, such as the massive debt.”
According to data compiled by the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force, 27 of the constitutionally required 34 states have active applications to hold an interstate meeting (convention) to draft a balanced budget amendment. The nation is only seven states away from calling a limited convention under Article V.
1The Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force is a non-profit, non-partisan coalition whose mission is to educate state legislators regarding their Constitutional power to propose and ratify a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
I know what happened Monday. Sen.Ted Cruz is in deep, deep legal trouble.
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You mean win?
Didn’t know it was a criminal act.
Has Ted ever voted for increasing the debt ceiling? Or any budget? This Pledge will be meaningless if he had
All that happened Monday was Cruz won, Trump came in second.
It's even easier to promise something verbally.
And what's easiest is to say nothing at all.
So what's your point? You don't like candidates making promises?
“It’s very easy to sign something that will never come to pass.”
It’s just more of the same. I wish I had a dollar for every times I’ve heard a politician yak about “balancing the budget”. Cruz knows that people’s memory is very short. Geez, it’s only first week in February and I swear I am so sick of STUMP SPEECHES that I almost can’t see straight. All it amounts to is: “I, I, I, I, me, me, me, I, I,”. Please LORD spare us.
I’m opposed to a balanced budget amendment so color me unimpressed.
I support a Balanced Budget Amendment but it needs to have a provision that would allow/require borrowing of money with a 2/3 majority of congress. This would allow us to respond better after a 9/11 type event.
I thought my point was quite straight forward, it’s easy to make promises when you know it will not come to pass. On the remote likelihood that it did come to pass, would he actually follow through? The only way to get spending under control is for him to fight to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracies within the government. It’s a positive gesture, but it doesn’t carry any real meaning. So for all practical purposes it is a hallow pledge, whose real purpose is to garner support, period. To me, since I have heard this many times in the past, it is meaningless.
I can’t say for sure that it is empty, but merely a gesture, absolutely.
I hear you, let’s start talking about policy visions and how you would carry those visions to fruition.
Well if you really feel that way then get off your ass and start a war.
This administration is violating the Constitution right and left as it is. What difference would adding more restrictions make?
His staff tweeted a CNN headline, and you see a criminal act? Sheesh.
You really believe what you just wrote? Yeesh.
What we need to save the country is not our Constitution.
We need to make yuuuuge deals with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Or we need Amnesty Rubio or Bush.
Forget balanced budgets and the Constitution-it's an outdated piece of paper.
Who cares about individual rights and government by the people of the people and for the people?
I have never been a fan of balanced budget.. California has a balanced budget.. iirc.
And don’t forget, if we vote for Donald Trump he plans on building a magnificent new ballroom addition to the White House! He’s got my vote!
Yes being the first person to sign a Balanced Budget Amendment pledge is clearly the act of a crimminal.
You are completely out of your mind. Seek help for your own sake.
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