Byron DeLear -
Is America Too Top Heavy?
Definitely.
And Congress is blatantly ignoring Article V, despite over 700 Article V applications from ALL 50 states, :
- 37 different states submitted 158 Article V applications between 1975 and 1980 (34 of the applications were BALANCED BUDGET amendment applications).
- 154 Article V applications were submitted by 34 different States in 7 years from 1963 to 1969.
- 180 Balanced Budget/General-Call-for-an-Article-V-Convention applications were submitted by 38 different states.
- 123 Balanced Budget Article V applications were submitted by 38 different states since year 1955.
- 525 of the 750+ Article V applications were submitted since year 1955.
Yet, Congress just gave itself its 10th raise in 12 years, plus $93,000 per Congress person for petty cash and expenses. Cha Ching!
Check out these examples of severe bloat and waste . . . all while our troops risk life and limb, go without armor, go without promised benefits, and have to do 2, 3, 4, 5+ tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All while 13-to-32 Million Americans are unemployed.
All while the National Debt is $11.4 Trillion (the highest per-capita ever at $36K per capita).
All while the Nation-Wide debt is over $57 Trillion.
Millions of Americans are being cheated and abused, and it will only get worse until enough voters act responsibly and do their job too. The first simple step is for enough voters to simply stop repeatedly rewarding bad politicians with perpetual re-election, stop blindly pulling the party-lever, and stop wallowing in the blind, divisive, circular, distracting partisan-warfare. Perhaps when enough voters are . . .
- (1) deep into debt (on the loan-shark hamster wheel),
- (2) jobless (and debt also being used against some people looking for work),
- (3) homeless,
- (4) and hungry,
. . . as a result of these numerous incessant abuses and these deteriorating
economic conditions, enough of those voters will finally (hopefully) question their repeatedly rewarding corrupt incumbent politicians with perpetual re-election
? At any rate, the voters have the government that the voters elect (and
re-elect, and
re-elect, and
re-elect , . . . , at least until that finally becomes too
painful).
