The Convention of States Action organization (COSA) is dutifully and persistently laboring to convince fifteen more state legislatures to vote yes for holding a meeting of the states. Nineteen states have done so, but thirty-four total are needed. COSA’s purpose is patriotic and urgently needed. There is now another factor at work that should help us.
While our COSA effort is ongoing, the Trump administration is beginning to expose incredible unamerican conditions endemic throughout our federal government. The Epoch Times article cited below written by Jeffery Tucker presents facts on just how skewed our government practices are.
For example, according to Tucker, in the US Treasury there is "an outrageous payment system not monitored, audited and even looked at by an elected official or outside appointee since 1945.” Fortunately every department in this administration is being scrutinized, disclosing poor performance and bringing accountability to what has been shrouded in mystery for all our lives.
Tucker explains the lack of oversight, “Nearly $5 trillion in payments flying out without any tag linking to congressional authorization. Such a shabby system builds in a strange bias to always keep paying no matter what. That’s easier than having to deal with individuals, nonprofits, or companies and their protests against getting cut off. If you have a system through which unlimited amounts of money flow, and there is no one really incentivized to care that it is being used well, and no professionals are tasked with the job of stopping leakage, it can continue forever until bankruptcy.”
This is being exposed now via DOGE. Tucker points out, “For the first time since WWII, the Dept. of the Treasury has a fiscal assistant secretary who was not chosen from within the ranks of the bureaucracy. There were only 15 people in this position over 85 years, and they all came from within the system.” Tucker continues, "There are thick and nearly impenetrable walls that have separated elected leaders from the actual functioning of government. When you consider the clouds of secrecy surrounding government finance . . . it makes the mind race with fear and dread about what might be going on behind the scenes.”
The news is filled every day with shocking and disheartening revelations of a government out-of-control and lacking a moral compass. The DOGE thrust is the most visible, but fraud, waste and abuse are under attack in all agencies and departments.
Many good changes will be made in the next four years, but they will need to be codified into law to be permanent. Doing so will be the major purpose of amendments coming from an Article V convention.
There are more revolting comments in the article, but the larger point of importance to COSA is this from Tucker's piece, “Regarding transparency in government, whether the budget, the accounting systems, the payroll systems, the NGOs, the agencies, or the machinations of international political wrangling, the issue at this point is not really our different ideological or philosophical positions. Until we can see the books and hear the conversations, we cannot really begin to talk about the details of what kind of government we should have. Until we are certain that we really do live in democratic forms (conditions) in which the people are ultimately in charge, our differences do not matter nearly as much as simply discovering what is going on behind the scenes.”
The key takeaway from Tucker's article is good news. Because of this administration's efforts to promote transparency and accountability, revealing what has been shrouded in mystery for decades, we can anticipate a culture of greater honesty, integrity, and unity in the future.
Americans will soon better understand the inner workings of federal agencies. The time it takes for those improvements to appear can be the same time used by COSA to achieve the convention. Then, in that improved cultural atmosphere, good sensible amendments produced by the convention will have a greater chance of being added to our Constitution.
Let’s hope the DOGE and other Trump actions continue to put daylight on a dark government for the next four, or even eight years. Meanwhile, let us also press on, COSA, with prayer and determination.
Success is ahead.
To learn more about Convention of States and to become involved, click on www.conventionofstates.com.
Reference
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/harder-than-we-thought-5819057
Tucker, Jeffrey A., Harder Than We Thought, The Epoch Times, March 12-18, No. 555, A17.
