RE: Government Shutdown
01-23-2019, 06:32 AM (This post was last modified: 01-23-2019, 06:33 AM by SilverFang01.)
01-23-2019, 06:32 AM (This post was last modified: 01-23-2019, 06:33 AM by SilverFang01.)
(01-22-2019, 08:45 PM)robkelk Wrote: As for the shutdown...
I wonder whether you folks can get enough States together to exercise their power under Article Five of the Constitution to convene a National Convention to pass a constitutional amendment stating that elected members of the legislative and executive branches are not to receive pay during an "emergency shutdown" of the government. (The Twenty-seventh Amendment already deals with the pay of members of Congress, so this is the appropriate instrument for such a measure.) It has to apply to both branches, not just one.
There is already a move in that direction but is generally considered to be a bad idea, since the last time it happened we ended up replacing the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...47d5f3b3c4
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg