johnwilliamson062
Moderator
however you want to phrase it, the constitution has been left in the dust.
however you want to phrase it, the constitution has been left in the dust.
What do you propose we do?
I find it amusing, or disturbing, that whenever the issue of a constitutional convention is raised, people start getting all scared
The changes still must be approved by three-fourths of the state legislatures before they become the law of the land. It would only take 13 out of the 50 states to block any change
What I find amusing is that anyone would trust the same state, and federal legislatures that brought us to the brink we now face, to re-write the constitution.
It is "the same state, and federal legislatures" that we must trust in every day
Elect different people, problem solved. If you can't even elect people who are decent - you think trying to redo the fundamentals of the country is going to be better?
If no amendment succeeds it sends a very strong message to the supreme court and such to continue interpreting it as the founders intended, which I believe they have been doing a pretty good job of recently.
I fervently believe voting a few Republicans into office is not going to solve the problem
I declare anyone who thinks the RNC is the answer a fool fit for the guillotine.
the last Republican ran up the debt something crazy.
And it would be nice if rather more of "the people" were less happy to be lied to
there are so many fundamentally wrongheaded ideas out there at the moment that it's horrifying to think of all these deluded people trying to re-invent the government based on what they think they know...
Both administrations spent in ways that were absolutely unsustainable to 2020. Are we really going to argue over how unsustainable? If your government can't think out 10 years it is failing.But, compared to the current administration ? It was only penny-ante.
DO you really think there has been a time in history when there weren't fringe movements and interest groups?there are so many fundamentally wrongheaded ideas out there at the moment that it's horrifying to think of all these deluded people trying to re-invent the government based on what they think they know...
Elect different people, problem solved. If you can't even elect people who are decent - you think trying to redo the fundamentals of the country is going to be better?
It's just a fantasy game as I said before.
Both administrations spent in ways that were absolutely unsustainable to 2020. Are we really going to argue over how unsustainable? If your government can't think out 10 years it is failing.
It absolutely was not penny ante. Bush over ran the budget by about a trillion dollars a year and came in on projected surplus. Obama came into one hell of a mess and is overshooting by about 1.5. I doubt Bush would have beat him, it just would have gone different places. What is to say the next Republican group would not outspend Obama?