A Threat To Planning for a Sane and Healthy Post-Pandemic Society: Run-Away Government Spending
Is a Convention of the States a Helpful Option?
In the American Thinker today, the economist Jeffrey Barrett writes about how the Vaccine is a Dud but important for this Substack’s focus, he comments:
“economists have been pointing out for years, governments cannot possibly pay for all the promises they have made to their voters for future benefits such as pensions, medical care, and other cradle-to-grave comforts. The American federal government alone has, by some measures, a 200 Trillion gap between future expected revenues and future promised benefits.[vi] Little wonder that today's Western elites are giving up on traditional Western liberties because they know that once the hard times hit, the masses will use those liberties such as freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to protest, the courts, and elections as weapons to lash back at the "establishments" in power.
The establishments, of course, do not want to give up their wealth, status, and power, and so must find some way of depriving the masses of these dangerous liberties, exert more authority over them and turn them from free citizens into subjects.”
If the entrenched powers try to prevent social change towards a sane and health society, one powerful suggestion is to convention a Convention of the States per Article 5 of the Constitution. Plenty of states have already passed a resolution calling for a convention. Quote:
Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives states the power to call a Convention of States to propose amendments. It takes 34 states to call the convention and 38 to ratify any amendments that are proposed. Our convention would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.”
Let me and the readers know of other, non-violent, options.