I see nothing wrong with a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to get a grip on sending in this country. Eventually it all must be paid back.
Do you really want power such as that turned over to a bunch of corrupt localized institutions that don't listen to the same people in which they govern? Maybe (just maybe) LOOK at the larger context of what you are proposing - and further HOW IT AFFECTS YOU! If you do what you are proposing, you take away your own rights.
Just a thought...
Do you know of anyone on the left organizing grassroots pressure and/or possible amendments in the eventuality that such a convention does take place? We could address campaign financing, put voting protections in the constitution, shift the presidential vote to a weekend, finish abolishing slavery, restrict corporate rights...
It seems to me that ALEC is the one that needs to be watched out for. They represent the interests of the Oligarchy that feeds them money, not the interests of working Americans. Their goal to "drown the government" while feeding the Oligarchy on the backs of working Americans is treacherous in the least. Just look at laws that have been passed in various states pushed by ALEC owned legislators, these laws have not benefited the majority of people, just emboldened and lined the pockets of those legislators that helped to push them. ALEC is another cancer to our democracy!
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