Posted on 03/23/2012 10:06:40 PM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican
Re-gaining control of the debt limit is not a partisan issue. All within the Washinton bubble: politicians of all partisan flavors & their disgustingly lazy MSM lap dogs; they're simply incapable of doing their jobs! Last Congress maxed out the last of the credit cards. This Congress co-signed our grandchildren for "payday loans." It's time to go Constitutional upon them!
Two states on board, twenty-two seriously considering, six with toes in the water. Legislative kits available for personally lobbying your home state legislators. Time For ACTION!
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
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I suspect that a Constitutional Amendment will require more than a perfunctory response from Washington.
Greetings HMS Surprise:
The average Washington bubble occupant appears to reside within a partisan world of demagougary. Politicians might find it more convenient blaming the fifty separate States for holding them accountable and then do the right thing; in lieu of the ever-so-predictable “other party’s” fault.
Pray for our republic,
OLA
Greetings guitarplayer1953:
Of consequence: proposed March 10, 1971 became 26th Amendment July 5, 1971.
Symbolic: 1992, 207 years afterward.
Cheers,
OLA
The passage of the 17th Amendment (direct election of US Senators) in 1913 inverted the relationship of the Federal government to the States. Previously, US Senators were elected by their respective state legislatures and as such reported to and protected the interests of the states in federal matters. Now the federal government is in control of the states and one of the fruits of that has been the willingness of the federal government to spend far more money than it takes in.
We can debate tax policy and tax rates all day, but what counts is spending. Economist Milton Friedman pointed out the obvious: the federal government must get the money it spends by borrowing, inflating or taxing. Since the federal spending is so out of balance, the best way to throttle its powers over all of us is to forbid it to borrow any more.
As a political reality, people today are far more worried about the level of government debt than ever before. So, the time may be sufficiently ripe to enable such an amendment to pass.
We must do everything we can to put the Leviathan State back in it cage before we find the cage it is putting us in has a lock on the door that we cannot pick.
The passage of the 17th Amendment (direct election of US Senators) in 1913 inverted the relationship of the Federal government to the States. Previously, US Senators were elected by their respective state legislatures and as such reported to and protected the interests of the states in federal matters. Now the federal government is in control of the states and one of the fruits of that has been the willingness of the federal government to spend far more money than it takes in.
We can debate tax policy and tax rates all day, but what counts is spending. Economist Milton Friedman pointed out the obvious: the federal government must get the money it spends by borrowing, inflating or taxing. Since the federal spending is so out of balance, the best way to throttle its powers over all of us is to forbid it to borrow any more.
As a political reality, people today are far more worried about the level of government debt than ever before. So, the time may be sufficiently ripe to enable such an amendment to pass.
We must do everything we can to put the Leviathan State back in its cage while we still can.
Greetings theBuckwheat:
Very well stated, dear FReeper.
Cheers,
OLA
Greetings guitarplayer1953:
The 26th Amendment was very significant in your sake; old enough for war but not old enought to vote. If 1953 is your birth year, guessing Ground Hog Day 1972 was an important lottery drawing day at your parent’s home? Draft ended my freshman year in high school.
Cheers,
OLA
Another drop in the US credit rating, Bump.
First, it simply destroyed federalism.
Second, our Framers never seriously considered popular election as the basis for both houses of Congress. Excessive representative democracy in the States was one of several reasons for the Constitutional Convention and they knew it was fatal to base republican legislation entirely on the passions of the people.
Also, they would spit blood at the thought of six year terms for popularly elected officials. The primary reason we do not have one year terms for Congressmen was the difficulty of 18th century travel.
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