State legislators, take your power back!
I'm WAY ahead of you on this one, buddy...
FOX and Beck should offer an hour of their 24 hour news cycles and play this over and over so everyone in America sees Mark Levin’s ALEC speech. Maybe Hannity would show it with his audience response afterwards? It is an absolute classic. An education for all. Every high school and college student in America needs to see it.
I’m all for this effort, but let’s say everyone jumped through all the necessary hoops and we actually ended up with the right amendments which were correctly worded and they were ratified.
By definition, the right amendment(s) with the right wording would significantly and substantially cut back the government’s unconstitutional activities and overreach (in that sense, at least in some amendments, we would be probably be reiterating the Constitution).
Therefore, if these are the right amendments, MANY government officials, bureaucratic department heads, and government workers would be packing their backs and out of jobs. Government would be committing a sort of bureaucratic suicide.
What are the chances the people in power who make a living from the federal government machinery would do such a thing? And what would force them? The states? How long would they drag their feet and find a million ways to delay anything close to this kind of government self-immolation.
IMO, I believe the states who are serious about living under freedom and the rule of law may very well need to be willing to do without federal funding and become financially independent from the federal government, because when it’s all said and done, that’s where the rub will be. If the feds can successfully intimidate and extort the states financially, they win, Constitution or no Constitution. I think it will come down to whatever states are willing to severe financial ties to the federal government. Not sure where that would ultimately lead, but I believe that financially independent states that held to a Constitutional Republic form of government with minimal government and allowed the free market economy to run would soon become stronger financially than the bankrupt federal government.
Mark doesn’t look healthy. I realize it’s a poor production video, but he looks like he’s heading the way of Breitbart soon.
Great speech. Wish he was a bit more Baratone.
Anyway, he addressed points that I had concerns about — co-opting then runaway convention. I still think it’s possible because it will be whatever the MSM and the status quo say’s it is.
Another point not addressed was a “poison pill”. Obviously they will pass several amendments. Will they pass them as a package state by state or as an individual roll call per amendment? I like the latter because it will keep the amendments down but also allow poison pills to be quickly jettisoned.
3rd and final point. The Federal Judiciary, Congress and the President and just as important, the media, will all insinuate themselves and claim jurisdiction over certain processes (the ones that will fail or poison the zeitgeist. You know it’s going to happen because the States, even collectively, have no enforcement provisions written into the Constitution other than the 2nd amendment of course.
The size of the federal government is around $4 trillion. An entire ONE-FOURTH of that is ONE bureaucratic agency, the unconstitutional Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) with a budget of around $1 Trillion. Since 1970, the size of the federal government has increased 1000% ($350 billion to $4 trillion).
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1900_2010USm_16s1li0181366_657cs_F0f
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total_spending_1970USrn
To remain a free constitutional republic, it is mandatory to cut by at least 80% the size of this unconstitutional federal government which would leave it at about $800 billion. This would mean the dismantling of most of the unconstitutional “Administrative State” bureaucracy, the unconstitutional “fourth branch” of government which is where all these “regulations” come from.
This could mean the loss of jobs to hundreds of thousands of federal employees including officials, bureaucratic mangers, and department heads. This could also mean the loss of income to hundreds of thousands of people dependent on federal government. Of course, there would be phase-out, phase-in periods, hopefully allowing time for the states and free market to replace these jobs and dependencies. There would be howling, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Nobody wants to lose their job and officials and bureaucratic heads would use everything in their power to stop it. It is hard to imagine it would happen.
Yet, if we are serious about putting the feds back into their constitutional cage, that is about what it will take. If the output of the proposed convention is ratified amendments that come even close to mandating a large portion of this rogue government, one has to ask, what mechanisms are in place to enforce such radical change and results?
I'm WAY ahead of you on this one, buddy...
This is why I’m a “Tenthist”.