[nathanbedford]

After bringing the oppressive regulatory state under control, the next thing is to eliminate the unsustainable and unconstitutional welfare state.

I could not agree more.

Well, there's the problem right there. Tell me, exactly where in Article 1 of the Constitution is the Congress authorized to create all those trillions of dollars worth of 'entitlements'?

I don't see it there but the Supreme Court does and the Congress of United States does and, evidently, is only too eager to increase them. In view of the fact that all of these federal institutions are bent on retaining in even expanding the entitlements, I can only assume that you are fully in support of the Article V movement which resorts to the Constitution to restore the Constitution to its original intent as the only remaining viable path to reform because it does not involve the Congress, the president, the bureaucrats, or the court?

[NorthMountain]

I can only assume that you are fully in support of the Article V movement

Correct. Since the Congress and the Courts are not merely unwilling to rein in the oppressive regulatory state, but are complicit in its growth ... the job reverts to We the People.