Obama may be out of office, but the consequences of his actions will have far-reaching effects -- possibly for generations to come.
Fox News reported today that the previous administration spent a whopping $9.2 billion last year on the United Nations and its sprawling array of organizations. That number is 20 percent higher than it was in 2010, includes money for anti-Israel organizations, and will no doubt serve to increase the bloat and inefficiency of the international organization.
While President Trump plans to take a hard look at such spending practices, the damage may be too extensive to rectify in one or two terms.
The country is already $20 trillion in debt and struggles with its own bloat and inefficiency in many government agencies. Trump can work every day for the next eight years to clean up the waste, fraud, and abuse, but the next administration (or the next Congress) can simply return to flushing taxpayer money down the drain.
If the American people truly want to protect future generations from financial hardship, they need something stronger than executive orders or federal laws: they need constitutional amendments proposed by a Convention of States.
A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and the people and has the authority to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution that force the feds to be fiscally responsible. Enshrined in the highest law of the land, these fiscal requirements will survive changing administrations and congressional parties.
