October 2nd UPDATE

Cric Fan storms into the lead in spite of his failed drugs test...

This has been something I have championed since my first days in the California Assembly. Republicans spend too much. Democrats spend way way too much. In 44 out of the last 49 years, the nation has run a deficit through Republican Congresses, Democratic Congresses, Republican Presidents, Democratic Presidents, and every combination thereof. We need an external discipline to keep US from driving YOU into further debt. This Amendment will do that. This Constitutional Amendment would limit federal spending in any year to one fifth (20%) of the economy (GDP). That is the historic average since World War II. Right now, we are at about 27%. Through Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, the Great Society, etc., in the last 64 years, we have managed to thrive with a federal government that represents about 1/5th of the economy. Why can't we continue to thrive at the same level for the next 64 years? The Amendment allows Congress to go over the limit in any year in which a Declaration of War is in effect or with a 2/3rds vote, and it gives Congress 4 years after ratification to get spending down to this level. Constitutional amendments are never easy to pass (there have been only 27 to date, the last one being in 1992) but it has no chance of even being voted on in this spendthrift Congress, but a number of us are starting to talk about it as the solution we need to keep our government from taking over everything and spending us all into oblivion. The government budget cannot keep going up while family budgets are going down.
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