Alabama House calls for Convention of States to rein in federal government | |
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(OP) User ID: 33646643 United States 04/29/2015 05:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “We’re calling for restraints on the federal government,” Johnson told Yellowhammer when the resolution passed last year. “That means an amendment that forces them to balance the budget and stops these overreaching federal mandates. We’re also calling for term limits on federal elected offices.” Roll Tide! I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred shitheads. -Colonel Charlie Beckwith |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 68507891 United States 04/29/2015 05:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "This is the second year HJR112, sponsored by Rep. Ken Johnson (R-Moulton) and cosponsored by 52 additional Republicans, has been approved by the House. Last year the resolution died in the Senate, but Rep. Johnson has high hopes that this year will be the year Alabama officially signs on to the idea of a Article V convention." Quoting: SLC [link to yellowhammernews.com] Long Overdue! can we get rid of the Fucking TSA too please? |
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User ID: 55285701 United States 04/29/2015 05:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | By mandated law most states must have balanced budgets from year to year. Federal government now spends twice as much money than is taken in. Last Edited by Trump Donalds '24 on 04/29/2015 05:30 PM “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi Berra Vote for Trump y'all |
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Forum Administrator User ID: 56159217 United States 04/29/2015 05:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ***** I think its a great idea, just a lil early. The Libs and Progressives are not nearly whipped enough. When they are bleeding from every orifice, and beg to go home to Mother Russia, then push them off the cliff and tell the to swim for their lives. After that enema, rebuilding the da,mage should be a piece of cake. Just imagine: No more FED, no more Dept. of Edumacation, flat tax, rebuild manufacturing base, rebuild America. I'll fight for that. “We have assembled the most extensive and inclusive Voter Fraud Organization in the history of America”—Joe “SippyCup” Biden Joe Biden will never be the man Michelle Obama is The worst thing about dying is that you become a democratic voter for eternity |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 54482170 United States 04/29/2015 05:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "This is the second year HJR112, sponsored by Rep. Ken Johnson (R-Moulton) and cosponsored by 52 additional Republicans, has been approved by the House. Last year the resolution died in the Senate, but Rep. Johnson has high hopes that this year will be the year Alabama officially signs on to the idea of a Article V convention." Quoting: SLC [link to yellowhammernews.com] AKA we aren't getting our way so let's stomp our feet some more...if they were in the drivers seat and Dems tried to do this, oh boy would be hear about it. I know this place is pub heavy, sorry guys :/ |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7612889 United States 04/29/2015 05:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "This is the second year HJR112, sponsored by Rep. Ken Johnson (R-Moulton) and cosponsored by 52 additional Republicans, has been approved by the House. Last year the resolution died in the Senate, but Rep. Johnson has high hopes that this year will be the year Alabama officially signs on to the idea of a Article V convention." Quoting: SLC [link to yellowhammernews.com] AKA we aren't getting our way so let's stomp our feet some more...if they were in the drivers seat and Dems tried to do this, oh boy would be hear about it. I know this place is pub heavy, sorry guys :/ The thing you don't get is that it's not a left/right issue. It's an issue of the federal gov. not following or enforcing laws based on the constitution. The reason this has boiled over to such a large degree is mainly due to the millions of people like yourself that believe these calls for change are partisan. It prevents any action from taking place. Grow a brian moran. |
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(OP) User ID: 33646643 United States 04/29/2015 05:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The math is simple - to win a statewide (Alabama) election or take back a legislative majorities, Democrats have to win back white voters. Nationally, the party has been successful by cobbling together lots of smaller constituencies - minorities, women, LGBT - into majorities, but the Alabama Democratic Party has failed to do the same. And it won't - not ever - until it learns what diversity really means, until it shucks off the superficial quotas, and gets comfortable in its own skin - whatever color that is." [link to www.al.com] I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred shitheads. -Colonel Charlie Beckwith |
s. d. butler
User ID: 974819 United States 04/29/2015 05:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would suggest we call for an amendment to require mandatory service,preferably in the military,to witness the good as well the bad.With this effort I believe you will have an entire country involved and motivated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66016502 so no freedom? bigger gubmint is the answer? Mandatory "service"? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69066411 United States 04/29/2015 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would suggest we call for an amendment to require mandatory service,preferably in the military,to witness the good as well the bad.With this effort I believe you will have an entire country involved and motivated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66016502 Fuck that. Mandatory service and financial contribution for those who advocate war. Let the armchair general pussies put their money where they mouth is, then come home and personally pay for their pussification. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 66016502 United States 04/29/2015 05:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would suggest we call for an amendment to require mandatory service,preferably in the military,to witness the good as well the bad.With this effort I believe you will have an entire country involved and motivated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66016502 so no freedom? bigger gubmint is the answer? Mandatory "service"? First of all with the US holding reserve currency status you are never going to value a balanced budget,hopefully you will leverage debt and default then shove a gun up the debtors adds when he wants to get paid.If you had the whole counter with some skin in the game maybe you could change the game board |
The Årtist
User ID: 44124412 United States 04/29/2015 05:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I applaud the 'Bama congress critters spirit but if you can't get the sentiment to take root among the house and senate members in DC it is a mere token effort and a pointless exercise. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69080936 Incorrect. If a certain number of States call for a Convention of the Constitution the Federal government has zero say in it. They have zero power to oversee, change, influence, or anything else. The power of the Federal Government in only there because the States recognize and approve of that power. If the States call a convention then the States get to decide what they want to do in terms of Amendments. And if it's ratified then the Federal government has to abide by that, by law, without question. So if 40 States, say, called for a Constitutional Convention and term limits and a federal balanced budget were voted on and ratified by those States, bam the Federal government has to do it, there's no way out of it. This was built into the system in case the Federal level got out of control and no longer was doing the will of the States. The process was created so the States could do an end around of an overreaching Federal government and force them back into the will of the States. The hard part, getting the required number of States to call for a convention and then to actually agree on the amendments and then to actually ratify them. And in this day and age where our schools are teaching that Federal trumps all we have States full of lawmakers that simply do not understand or are actively willing to allow their individual State's Rights power to be usurped. RAGE |
s. d. butler
User ID: 974819 United States 04/29/2015 05:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "This is the second year HJR112, sponsored by Rep. Ken Johnson (R-Moulton) and cosponsored by 52 additional Republicans, has been approved by the House. Last year the resolution died in the Senate, but Rep. Johnson has high hopes that this year will be the year Alabama officially signs on to the idea of a Article V convention." Quoting: SLC [link to yellowhammernews.com] the problem is this- How can you strictly limit an article V convention? As stated- The resolution passed today by the Alabama House strictly limits the purpose of the proposed convention to three areas: 1) imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government through a balanced budget amendment; 2) limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government; and 3) implementing term limits on federal elected officials. Every single right in the Bill of Rights and every other right is in peril if the various communists/progressives/socialists/rinos/neo cons get what they want. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69029308 United States 04/29/2015 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would suggest we call for an amendment to require mandatory service,preferably in the military,to witness the good as well the bad.With this effort I believe you will have an entire country involved and motivated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66016502 Not military. A standing army is illegal. We technically should not have a professional army. |
s. d. butler
User ID: 974819 United States 04/29/2015 05:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would suggest we call for an amendment to require mandatory service,preferably in the military,to witness the good as well the bad.With this effort I believe you will have an entire country involved and motivated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66016502 so no freedom? bigger gubmint is the answer? Mandatory "service"? First of all with the US holding reserve currency status you are never going to value a balanced budget,hopefully you will leverage debt and default then shove a gun up the debtors adds when he wants to get paid.If you had the whole counter with some skin in the game maybe you could change the game board reserve currency status won't last much longer. Any solution that calls for ever larger and more powerful central government is a bad solution. |
s. d. butler
User ID: 974819 United States 04/29/2015 05:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would suggest we call for an amendment to require mandatory service,preferably in the military,to witness the good as well the bad.With this effort I believe you will have an entire country involved and motivated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66016502 Not military. A standing army is illegal. We technically should not have a professional army. Nothing technical about it. A standing army is unconstitutional. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42765307 United States 04/29/2015 05:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I applaud the 'Bama congress critters spirit but if you can't get the sentiment to take root among the house and senate members in DC it is a mere token effort and a pointless exercise. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69080936 The United States Congress has anything to do with the state legislatures amending the constitution. I think this guy is talking about the Alabama House and Senate. The states can amend it with 3/4 of the state legislatures approving it and there's nothing the feds can do about it except convince the States that if they do, the federal government will punish them via their control of federal dollars, etc. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 69077293 Australia 04/29/2015 05:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would suggest we call for an amendment to require mandatory service,preferably in the military,to witness the good as well the bad.With this effort I believe you will have an entire country involved and motivated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66016502 Fuck that. Mandatory service and financial contribution for those who advocate war. Let the armchair general pussies put their money where they mouth is, then come home and personally pay for their pussification. Major General Smedley Butler nailed it many years ago. Those who vote for Wars based on lies fraud and deceit, false flags like 911, should have their familes and themselves sent to the front lines until the war is over. They shoyld have all of their assets seized to pay for the wars. NO MORE WARS. |