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To: betty boop; hosepipe; Alamo-Girl; Hank Kerchief; spirited irish; metmom; xzins; Noumenon; ...

I have long believed that a small, dedicated group of people with a plan can accomplish anything.

At its most basic this is an economic war. The voting majority has learned to plunder the producers. Our country is broke and its future mortgaged. All of our rights become meaningless when we become slaves to our creditors.

The solution in principle is simple. We have to restrict our governments (and the Fed’s) ability to tax, go into debt and spend. That will require a Constitutional Amendment.

I believe the time is right


381 posted on 06/17/2009 9:56:03 PM PDT by LeGrande (I once heard a smart man say that you canÂ’t reason someone out of something that they didnÂ’t reaso)
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To: LeGrande
I have long believed that a small, dedicated group of people with a plan can accomplish anything.

That is exactly what occurred in the first American Revolution.

"During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it.

Another one-third of the population sided with the King (by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came."

Mike Vanderboegh

382 posted on 06/17/2009 11:00:17 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Thank you for sharing your insights, dear LeGrande!
386 posted on 06/18/2009 6:45:06 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: LeGrande; Alamo-Girl; Noumenon; Lurker; joanie-f
That will require a Constitutional Amendment.... I believe the time is right.

I strongly doubt a Balanced Budget Amendment could ever be extracted from this Congress and then submitted to the ratification process. So there would have to be a call for a Constitutional Convention by two-thirds of the State legislatures before such a proposed amendment can be advanced. Plus note a Constitutional Convention cannot be restricted to just a single issue, but would be wide-open for business on any number of issues.

Now THAT could be fun! (Or really scary....) The big unanswered question is: How does one motivate two-thirds of the States to act?

388 posted on 06/18/2009 11:44:45 AM PDT by betty boop (Tyranny is always whimsical. — Mark Steyn)
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