TIPPING POINT IS
REACHED
By William J. Skinner
The Supreme Court of the United
States issued two blows to American traditional values this week with the
weasel-worded opinion upholding the Obamacare Act (a/k/a ScoutusCare or
RobertsCare) for the second time in 2 years.
Second, the Supreme Court found laws preventing gay marriage
unconstitutional, causing many traditional American families more grief.
Who will want to trust the Supreme Court in
the future to interpret laws based on the wording of the laws written by state
legislatures and the Congress?
The necessity to ask the Supreme Court for
these rulings was based on the inept legal draftsmanship that resulted in
monstrous bills that members of legislative bodies had no time to read,
reconcile, and redraft. These laws were
made for the convenience of special interest groups representing small
minorities of the population who wanted what they wanted. The members of legislative bodies got paid with
votes and contributions. The good of the
country suffered. Everyone knows the
Congress has been in disrepute for years with low approval ratings.
Who will want to trust the Congress and some
state legislatures in the future?
During the past six and a half years, the
President has expanded the regulations and laws with the help of the growing
bureaucracy and his pen and telephone.
In the case of IRS, EPA and immigration law and regulations, even the
Congress has lost trust in the President because he has taken over the job of
writing laws.
All three branches of the US government can
no longer be trusted. What do we
do? What can we do at this tipping
point?
Consider that the Republicans do not hold
the Presidency, the Republicans in the Senate do not have the 70 plus members
to control the voting and override vetoes, and the House Republicans are not
united even though they have a majority.
If you have the ability to look ahead a few
years, you can probably see that Republicans will have a tough time reaching
those levels of power to make sure laws are changed for the better. But we should give another try in 2016 to
reach for those goals. This could be our
last chance.
At the same time, we need to buttress our election
efforts by supporting the Convention of the States to set an agenda for writing
proposed amendments to the US Constitution.
If general agreement can be made on worthwhile amendments, then each
state can adopt them, and if enough states agree, these will be sent back to
“We the People” to be ratified. This
will take a few years, but we can straighten out some flaws and improve some of
the recent actions.
Please do not get riled up about a
Convention turning wild and changing everything. Going wild would require too many agreements
for that to happen. Look at Article V of
the US Constitution and think this through.
In summary, we can do two things. 1) Let us give one more try to get elect a
Republican President and enough Republican members of the Senate and House to
do what has to be done; and 2) Get moving on a Convention of the States. Please become involved in these efforts to
save our country for future generations.
June 26, 2015 Contact me for more information at BillSkinnerLW@aol.com
