We tend to live our lives in a fishbowl, our personal reality. Our time and attention are monopolized by our daily routines. Our jobs, our family, our friends, and our responsibilities leave little room for much else.
We are so consumed with our fishbowl that we seldom think to look beyond its walls; not realizing that there is an insidious threat creeping ever closer. It is only when it reaches into our bowl that we react, but by then it is too late.
Our government was designed to represent us; to answer to our demands and our needs; to serve us as the term ‘public servant’ directly implies.
Those days are long past.
Over the years the change has occurred subtly. Changing so slowly that few notice while swimming through their personal reality. The threat is now upon us. There is no more pretending that our lives are exempt from the actions of our government.
The US Congress has evolved from representation of the people to self-presentation. They have become what our forefathers feared the most and fought for our freedom. They have become an aristocracy.
Some might feel that to be a dramatic statement, but I challenge you to deny its accuracy.
Read the actual definition:
ar·is·toc·ra·cy
1. people of highest social class: people of noble families or the highest social class
2. superior group: a group believed to be superior to all others of the same kind
3. government by elite: government of a country by a small group of people, especially a hereditary nobility
535 people, 382 of whom are millionaires, spend in some cases as long as 20, 30, or 40 years making decisions that benefit themselves and building their power and wealth, often to the detriment of the public. Instead of representing our wishes and needs, they continue to take more of our earnings. They tell us what to buy, what to eat, what to say, and how to act. We are being ruled, not represented. It can be defined as nothing other than an aristocracy.
Our government has reached the point that they feel secure enough with their power that they can begin to OPENLY rule the people. We have reached a critical stage. If we do not break the aristocracy of the US Congress now, we may find ourselves without the strength to do so in the future.
With the degree of wealth and influence that the career politicians have obtained, we cannot stop them with elections. With so many Americans swimming in their fishbowls, oblivious to the threat, re-elections are easily achieved at a 95% re-election rate due to name recognition, party support, and media exposure prior to the elections paid for by the lobbyists.
There is only one way. TERM LIMITS FOR US CONGRESS.
We cannot allow politicians to make the US Congress a career. We cannot allow a politician to spend 20, 30, or 40 years building an insurmountable power base.
Article 5 provides the option for amending the Constitution without the approval of Congress. When requested by 34 States for a specific topic, an Article 5 Convention is convened. At the Convention the verbiage of the Amendment is hashed out, then voted on, and if it passes, is sent back to the states where it must be ratified by 38 States, then becomes part of the Constitution without ANY INVOLVEMENT OR APPROVAL FROM THE US CONGRESS.
We WILL use this option to impose Term Limits on the US Congress and eliminate the power and corruption of Career Politicians.
We estimate it will take 3 to 5 million petition signatures to pressure the State Legislatures into using this option.
We are so consumed with our fishbowl that we seldom think to look beyond its walls; not realizing that there is an insidious threat creeping ever closer. It is only when it reaches into our bowl that we react, but by then it is too late.
Our government was designed to represent us; to answer to our demands and our needs; to serve us as the term ‘public servant’ directly implies.
Those days are long past.
Over the years the change has occurred subtly. Changing so slowly that few notice while swimming through their personal reality. The threat is now upon us. There is no more pretending that our lives are exempt from the actions of our government.
The US Congress has evolved from representation of the people to self-presentation. They have become what our forefathers feared the most and fought for our freedom. They have become an aristocracy.
Some might feel that to be a dramatic statement, but I challenge you to deny its accuracy.
Read the actual definition:
ar·is·toc·ra·cy
1. people of highest social class: people of noble families or the highest social class
2. superior group: a group believed to be superior to all others of the same kind
3. government by elite: government of a country by a small group of people, especially a hereditary nobility
535 people, 382 of whom are millionaires, spend in some cases as long as 20, 30, or 40 years making decisions that benefit themselves and building their power and wealth, often to the detriment of the public. Instead of representing our wishes and needs, they continue to take more of our earnings. They tell us what to buy, what to eat, what to say, and how to act. We are being ruled, not represented. It can be defined as nothing other than an aristocracy.
Our government has reached the point that they feel secure enough with their power that they can begin to OPENLY rule the people. We have reached a critical stage. If we do not break the aristocracy of the US Congress now, we may find ourselves without the strength to do so in the future.
With the degree of wealth and influence that the career politicians have obtained, we cannot stop them with elections. With so many Americans swimming in their fishbowls, oblivious to the threat, re-elections are easily achieved at a 95% re-election rate due to name recognition, party support, and media exposure prior to the elections paid for by the lobbyists.
There is only one way. TERM LIMITS FOR US CONGRESS.
We cannot allow politicians to make the US Congress a career. We cannot allow a politician to spend 20, 30, or 40 years building an insurmountable power base.
Article 5 provides the option for amending the Constitution without the approval of Congress. When requested by 34 States for a specific topic, an Article 5 Convention is convened. At the Convention the verbiage of the Amendment is hashed out, then voted on, and if it passes, is sent back to the states where it must be ratified by 38 States, then becomes part of the Constitution without ANY INVOLVEMENT OR APPROVAL FROM THE US CONGRESS.
We WILL use this option to impose Term Limits on the US Congress and eliminate the power and corruption of Career Politicians.
We estimate it will take 3 to 5 million petition signatures to pressure the State Legislatures into using this option.
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