SCR 52 (Claitor) passed our Majority Republican House today and our legislators want us to believe that it’s because they want to rein in the out of control federal government. Well, if that were true, they would have done it a long time ago and without calling for a constitutional convention.
You see, our federal government is already limited by the constitution. Our elected state officials simply refuse to make it abide within those limits. Rather than refraining from instituting programs that rob citizens of their liberties, these officeholders prefer to work in conjunction with the federal government regardless of the strings and regardless of the cost. Why?
All of the monies flowing from the federal government are in the form of grants given to the states that agree to institute certain programs or laws or regulations. Much of those same monies are then distributed by the state to private corporations of non-profit status who are put in charge of these federally-incentivized programs.
These monies are then recycled in such a way that, when we asked Sen. Vitter in a meeting of about 8 other people if he would be willing to sponsor a bill that would begin to defund the nonprofits, he responded with a wave of his hand as if to swat away a fly: “We could never defund the nonprofits—the whole system would collapse.”
What system is that? It’s the Public-Private Partnership that robs us of representative government.
http://www.thepeoplellc.com/files/How_a_Bill_Actually_Becomes_a_Law.pdf
--This is the system that is the reason our elections seem to change nothing.
--This is the system that makes it difficult to see any difference between the parties.
--This is the system that supports the special interests over and above the protection of fundamental rights of individuals.
--This is the system in which our legislators vote to change state laws to accommodate federal mandates in order to receive federal money instead of putting our rights and liberties first.
--This is the system that caused these 53 Republicans, 7 Democrats, and 2 Independents to vote today for a constitutional convention rather than simply doing their jobs of keeping the federal government in its place by saying no:
Mr. Speaker Abraham Abramson Amedee Armes Bacala Bagley Bagneris Berthelot Bishop Broadwater Brown, C. Brown, T. Carmody Carter, S. Chaney Connick Coussan Cromer Davis DeVillier
Dwight Edmonds Emerson Falconer Foil Garofalo Gisclair Guinn Harris, L. Havard Hazel Henry Hensgens Hilferty Hoffmann Horton Howard Huval
Ivey Johnson, M. Landry, N.
Lopinto Magee McFarland Miguez Miller, G. Montoucet Morris, Jay Morris, Jim Pope Pylant Richard Schexnayder Schroder Seabaugh Shadoin Stokes Talbot Thibaut Willmott Zeringue
You see, our federal government is already limited by the constitution. Our elected state officials simply refuse to make it abide within those limits. Rather than refraining from instituting programs that rob citizens of their liberties, these officeholders prefer to work in conjunction with the federal government regardless of the strings and regardless of the cost. Why?
All of the monies flowing from the federal government are in the form of grants given to the states that agree to institute certain programs or laws or regulations. Much of those same monies are then distributed by the state to private corporations of non-profit status who are put in charge of these federally-incentivized programs.
These monies are then recycled in such a way that, when we asked Sen. Vitter in a meeting of about 8 other people if he would be willing to sponsor a bill that would begin to defund the nonprofits, he responded with a wave of his hand as if to swat away a fly: “We could never defund the nonprofits—the whole system would collapse.”
What system is that? It’s the Public-Private Partnership that robs us of representative government.
http://www.thepeoplellc.com/files/How_a_Bill_Actually_Becomes_a_Law.pdf
--This is the system that is the reason our elections seem to change nothing.
--This is the system that makes it difficult to see any difference between the parties.
--This is the system that supports the special interests over and above the protection of fundamental rights of individuals.
--This is the system in which our legislators vote to change state laws to accommodate federal mandates in order to receive federal money instead of putting our rights and liberties first.
--This is the system that caused these 53 Republicans, 7 Democrats, and 2 Independents to vote today for a constitutional convention rather than simply doing their jobs of keeping the federal government in its place by saying no:
Mr. Speaker Abraham Abramson Amedee Armes Bacala Bagley Bagneris Berthelot Bishop Broadwater Brown, C. Brown, T. Carmody Carter, S. Chaney Connick Coussan Cromer Davis DeVillier
Dwight Edmonds Emerson Falconer Foil Garofalo Gisclair Guinn Harris, L. Havard Hazel Henry Hensgens Hilferty Hoffmann Horton Howard Huval
Ivey Johnson, M. Landry, N.
Lopinto Magee McFarland Miguez Miller, G. Montoucet Morris, Jay Morris, Jim Pope Pylant Richard Schexnayder Schroder Seabaugh Shadoin Stokes Talbot Thibaut Willmott Zeringue