For decades, Congress has failed to follow its own budgeting rules. Usually this results in passage of sloppy "continuing resolutions” or trillion dollar budgets that continue their wasteful spending. It’s a dysfunctional habit that decreases accountability and increases waste.
In fact, over the last forty years, Congress has passed a budget on time a whopping four times, and 14 of those years never had a budget passed at all – that’s 24 continuing resolutions in a row.
These days, every time there’s a budgeting deadline, concerns about a government shut down ramp up.
Despite the gaslighting by the White House, Congress, unelected bureaucrats, political pundits, and the marxist media, there really is NO reason to fear a government shut down.
There have been 21 government shut downs since the 1970s, and we have survived all of them. Know this, the government is shut down every weekend and on holidays, and during actual shutdowns, only 17% of the government is actually shut down.
Yes, thousands of federal government employees will be put on furlough if a shutdown occurs, but others that are deemed "essential" employees like the military, federal law enforcement and others will continue to work. During the shutdown, none of those employees will be paid but will receive back pay once the agency they work for is funded.
In previous years Congress would have to vote if these employees would receive back pay and always did, but after the 2019 shutdown, it was made mandatory for employees to receive it.
To end this dysfunction, "We the People" have the power, through our State Legislatures, to make the rules for them. We always have. We can actually bypass Congress and amend the Constitution to make it unconstitutional for Congress to be fiscally irresponsible.
How? By calling an Article V Convention of States and proposing a fiscal responsibility amendment. A fiscal responsibility amendment could:
- Require a balanced budget without allowing Congress to "raise fees" (aka taxes) on the people to "balance the budget.”
- Force Congress to use generally accepted accounting principles (amazingly, they currently do not do this!)
- Require that the federal government actually live within its means and exercise serious spending limits, so our children and grandchildren won't have to foot the bill for the waste currently permitted.
This is why Convention of States is here. Let’s use the tools the Founders gave us to limit the federal government’s squandering of resources and lack of fiscal accountability, for good!
Sign our petition here https://conventionofstates.com and you can be a part of the Convention of States movement, to show Washington that "We the People" are coming to take our country back!
