Arthur Joel Robinson of Blackfoot, Idaho writes in the Idaho State Journal:

One of the concerns put forth by the Article V Constitutional Convention advocates is the lack of a balanced national budget. The U.S. House of Representatives have the constitutional authority to balance the budget starting tomorrow. All they need to do is authorize less spending than our national government income. They control the “purse strings” of our Federal Government. Blackfoot

It is great news that a conversation in Idaho about an Article V Convention of States has been loud enough to catch this man’s attention.

Arthur states he is strongly opposed to a Con-Con, and that’s handy, because there aren’t any proposals for one. There was only one Constitutional Convention, the Federal Convention of 1787. An Article V Convention of States excludes the Federal government. The States would convene to put restrictions upon the Federal government, because if you think about it for a minute, the states created the Federal government, and so the provision for a Convention of States is afforded in Article V of the U.S. Constitution.

Unfortunately, there is incontrovertible evidence that the Constitution has been usurped. The Federal government is very much broken, and it is the view of many that it is broken because it has grown to a massive size, and is so distorted. That is why the subjects considered with the COS Project and many concerned patriots nationwide focus on term limits, fiscal responsibility and limiting the size and scope of the massive bureaucracy.

To his credit, Arthur is right about the broken will of our representatives in Washington, D.C. but he takes a veer into a bit of a confused argument about what we have to do in lieu of a Convention of States – He repeated the phrase “Constitutional Convention” again, but of course, that is in error.

What Arthur proposes is a paradox. On the one hand, he suggests that the Constitution isn’t broken but our representatives in D.C. have a broken will. On the other hand, he says that all we have to do, is get our broken politicians to authorize less spending than what is taken in.

Well, though I commend Arthur for his attempt to reason a solution, if it was just that easy to get Congresspeople to forgo the power and prestige and demand the Leftists to become fiscally sane instead of what they are doing now, which is breaking the budget every single time it comes up, we’d never have a problem. It surely would be nice if people who aren’t doing their job for the right reasons and for the right outcomes, to begin to do their job for the right reasons and the right outcomes, I will concede. But both parties are spending more and we are $20 trillion in debt, with no end in sight. In fact, some think we can’t come back from that amount of debt. If lawmakers in D.C. were able to magically become fiscally conservative without any pressure, we wouldn’t have the status quo.

And as Reagan said, “Status quo is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in.'”

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