AGENDA - NO CON-CON
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What is a CON-CON?
In 2014 Georgia has applied for a constitutional convention or con-con. This is BAD for GEORGIA and BAD for AMERICA!
We are told by those who want a con-con that they only want to hold a con-con in order to include a Balanced Budget Amendment or BBA, and to include a Term-Limit Amendment or TLA. On the surface this may seem like a good idea... but ...
There are several reasons why this is a VERY BAD idea!
According to the US Constitution, there are two distinct ways to amend the US Constitution. The first way is by two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. Using this "congressional" method, an amendment may be made to the Constitution without making any other changes. The second way is by application of two-thirds of the several states, which is 34 states. Using this "con-con" method, all bets are off since once a con-con is convened, then anything and everything is open to change during the convention. The last time this occurred was in 1787, in which the Articles of Confederation were completely ditched in favor of an entirely new Constitution. Furthermore, during the 1787 con-con, the means of ratification was also changed from unanimous to two-thirds (9 of 13) states. While this worked in our favor back in 1787, when many leaders of the American Revolution were involved, in todays' political climate we can only wince at what our current leaders would come up with if we were to have another con-con now.
Furthermore, assuming for the sake of argument that a BBA and TLA are worthy amendments, which they are NOT, it would STILL BE A BAD IDEA to apply for a con-con. When our Founding Fathers met in 1787 to remedy the defects of the Articles of Confederation, it was because THEY HAD BEEN FOLLOWING THESE ARTICLES AND BECAUSE OF THIS THEY KNEW IT WAS NOT WORKING! But our leaders today ARE NOT FOLLOWING OUR CONSTITUTION. Because of this, We the People must conclude that our current leaders either lack understanding of, or they lack respect for, our existing Constitution, or both. This fact, along with the precedent for radical change already set by the previous convention, tells us that a con-con today would most likely lead to a complete re-write of our Constitution. This would be a total disaster for the cause of FREEDOM and it would likely mean the end of the great American republic!
Furthermore, neither of these amendments is a good idea even if we could somehow be guaranteed that a con-con intended just for these two amendments would not spiral out of control, which we cannot guarantee. Why is this?
Because of the way our current financial system operates, if we were to impose an effective balance-budget amendment, then either our economy would collapse as we contracted our money supply to match our current tax revenue, or our taxes would sky-rocket into the stratosphere to make up in taxes what currently is obtained through “borrowing” money into existence. Either way, our economy would be crushed, and our nation destroyed.
Furthermore, the State of Georgia has no business requesting a con-con in order to discipline the federal government into balancing its budget while at the same time our state eagerly accepts federal funds for all sorts of unconstitutional purposes such as federal education and medical grants... talk about hypocrisy!
As for an effective term-limit amendment, all this would accomplish is it would disempower voters and prevent the good congressmen we have from staying in office very long, which would reduce their effectiveness while in office, and discourage them from "doing the right thing" when they must soon look for employment with the very private organizations they are supposed to be restraining from infringing on our Rights. Increasing turnover will not produce better congressmen when the same ignorant and apathetic voters who voted the previous scoundrels into office are now voting in their replacements. Nothing good will come of it. Good officials won't stay in office very long, and high turnover won't lead to better officials, because of who is voting them into office, and finally, it will weaken our voting power since we will be prevented from voting for good candidates whose terms limits have been reached, whereas today we are not so limited.
The bottom line is that we need to rescind all existing con-con applications and make sure we don't do this again anytime soon! Instead of changing our existing Constitution, We the People need to learn about and discipline ourselves to follow our existing Constitution before we ever consider how we might improve upon it! This is just COMMON SENSE!
We are told by those who want a con-con that they only want to hold a con-con in order to include a Balanced Budget Amendment or BBA, and to include a Term-Limit Amendment or TLA. On the surface this may seem like a good idea... but ...
There are several reasons why this is a VERY BAD idea!
According to the US Constitution, there are two distinct ways to amend the US Constitution. The first way is by two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. Using this "congressional" method, an amendment may be made to the Constitution without making any other changes. The second way is by application of two-thirds of the several states, which is 34 states. Using this "con-con" method, all bets are off since once a con-con is convened, then anything and everything is open to change during the convention. The last time this occurred was in 1787, in which the Articles of Confederation were completely ditched in favor of an entirely new Constitution. Furthermore, during the 1787 con-con, the means of ratification was also changed from unanimous to two-thirds (9 of 13) states. While this worked in our favor back in 1787, when many leaders of the American Revolution were involved, in todays' political climate we can only wince at what our current leaders would come up with if we were to have another con-con now.
Furthermore, assuming for the sake of argument that a BBA and TLA are worthy amendments, which they are NOT, it would STILL BE A BAD IDEA to apply for a con-con. When our Founding Fathers met in 1787 to remedy the defects of the Articles of Confederation, it was because THEY HAD BEEN FOLLOWING THESE ARTICLES AND BECAUSE OF THIS THEY KNEW IT WAS NOT WORKING! But our leaders today ARE NOT FOLLOWING OUR CONSTITUTION. Because of this, We the People must conclude that our current leaders either lack understanding of, or they lack respect for, our existing Constitution, or both. This fact, along with the precedent for radical change already set by the previous convention, tells us that a con-con today would most likely lead to a complete re-write of our Constitution. This would be a total disaster for the cause of FREEDOM and it would likely mean the end of the great American republic!
Furthermore, neither of these amendments is a good idea even if we could somehow be guaranteed that a con-con intended just for these two amendments would not spiral out of control, which we cannot guarantee. Why is this?
Because of the way our current financial system operates, if we were to impose an effective balance-budget amendment, then either our economy would collapse as we contracted our money supply to match our current tax revenue, or our taxes would sky-rocket into the stratosphere to make up in taxes what currently is obtained through “borrowing” money into existence. Either way, our economy would be crushed, and our nation destroyed.
Furthermore, the State of Georgia has no business requesting a con-con in order to discipline the federal government into balancing its budget while at the same time our state eagerly accepts federal funds for all sorts of unconstitutional purposes such as federal education and medical grants... talk about hypocrisy!
As for an effective term-limit amendment, all this would accomplish is it would disempower voters and prevent the good congressmen we have from staying in office very long, which would reduce their effectiveness while in office, and discourage them from "doing the right thing" when they must soon look for employment with the very private organizations they are supposed to be restraining from infringing on our Rights. Increasing turnover will not produce better congressmen when the same ignorant and apathetic voters who voted the previous scoundrels into office are now voting in their replacements. Nothing good will come of it. Good officials won't stay in office very long, and high turnover won't lead to better officials, because of who is voting them into office, and finally, it will weaken our voting power since we will be prevented from voting for good candidates whose terms limits have been reached, whereas today we are not so limited.
The bottom line is that we need to rescind all existing con-con applications and make sure we don't do this again anytime soon! Instead of changing our existing Constitution, We the People need to learn about and discipline ourselves to follow our existing Constitution before we ever consider how we might improve upon it! This is just COMMON SENSE!
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