They forgot the 16th Amendment as well. Three things I liked about Glenn Beck. Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments. No more income taxes robbed out of our back pockets without state representation and then fed back to what's left of our feeble state government with unlimited federal controls. Then turn the Senate back to representing the state legislatures who would then be paying directly for any nonsense anti-American communist pork barrel nonsense for the other states. How many Senate votes would this BS from New York and California get then? None, because any senator that voted for that BS would get recalled by the state legislature that sent them. The third thing? It's not going to be sunshine and lollipops! Well, if we repealed those amendments, maybe once again!
Getting the senate to repeal the 16th would certainly be easier after all the snake elected senators are thrown out on their ears by repealing the 17th. Those two amendments are tied together. If state legislatures appointed senators, the senators would be beholden to the states, and what would the states want? They would want the federal money the elected senators have been bleeding them dry on for decades, and where does that money come from? Income taxes. I would think a top priority for most state appointed senators would be ultimately to repeal the 16th.
However, who are we kidding? Repealing the 17th would take 2/3rd votes in both houses. Every snake senator might very well lose their seat, with no help from their corrupt money machine and apathetic constituents. Both houses would have 90% of the federal power the whole system thrives on pried out of their cold dead fingers forever. That would be one cold day in hell. The legislature will never repeal either the 16th or 17th. That will never happen.
Popular support for the amendment was the result of fake news:
A turning point came in 1906, when publisher William Randolph Hearst, a proponent of direct election, hired novelist David Graham Phillips to write a number of articles on the subject. Published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1906, Phillips’ series, “The Treason of the Senate,” offered an unsympathetic (and largely fictionalized) account of senators as pawns of industrialists and financiers.
It also came into law in 1913 around which time a lot of fucky anti-American policies, laws, and instititions were established.
Let's also not forget that the 16th and 17th amendments were part of a progressive democratic agenda. Woodrow Wilson was elected shortly after the 16th and while the 17th was being ratified. The progressives took away state power with the two amendments, gave us the federal reserve, and progressive income taxes.
One of the issues the author mentioned that motivated the 17th was corruption of state legislature appointments to the Senate. For example, after Congress passed the 17th, prior to its ratification, the Senate investigated the appointment of a Senator. Apparently Chicago corporations had raised $100,000 to buy off the votes of the Illinois legislature.
Interesting to look back on that today. Now we don't just have corrupt state interests controlling the election of two senators, we have national and global corrupt interests controlling the election of all senators simultaneously.
They were the same swamp of communists we're dealing with now. Back in 2008, I ran across a political cartoon with Wilson and his cronies on a run away wagon filled with big bags of cash dumping the cash off the back. It had images of Marx and Trotsky. A family member filled me in on who the Wilson cronies were. All commies just like Wilson. These were the progressives Hillary styled herself after. They've just stepped out from behind the veil of progressive and are now running as full out communists. Of course they wanted to entrench the swamp. They wanted to end our democratic republic and replace it with democracy and from there replace it with communism and totalitarianism. It's always the same!
I do think the FED will be in his sights.
And Trump LOVES gold. :)
Yeah Rand Pauls sights, his sidekick.
At the rate the government is spending it will repeal itself when the dollar collapses.
They forgot the 16th Amendment as well. Three things I liked about Glenn Beck. Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments. No more income taxes robbed out of our back pockets without state representation and then fed back to what's left of our feeble state government with unlimited federal controls. Then turn the Senate back to representing the state legislatures who would then be paying directly for any nonsense anti-American communist pork barrel nonsense for the other states. How many Senate votes would this BS from New York and California get then? None, because any senator that voted for that BS would get recalled by the state legislature that sent them. The third thing? It's not going to be sunshine and lollipops! Well, if we repealed those amendments, maybe once again!
I don't think repeal of the 16th Amendment stands a chance unless the 17th is repealed.
Getting the senate to repeal the 16th would certainly be easier after all the snake elected senators are thrown out on their ears by repealing the 17th. Those two amendments are tied together. If state legislatures appointed senators, the senators would be beholden to the states, and what would the states want? They would want the federal money the elected senators have been bleeding them dry on for decades, and where does that money come from? Income taxes. I would think a top priority for most state appointed senators would be ultimately to repeal the 16th.
However, who are we kidding? Repealing the 17th would take 2/3rd votes in both houses. Every snake senator might very well lose their seat, with no help from their corrupt money machine and apathetic constituents. Both houses would have 90% of the federal power the whole system thrives on pried out of their cold dead fingers forever. That would be one cold day in hell. The legislature will never repeal either the 16th or 17th. That will never happen.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/SeventeenthAmendment.htm.
Popular support for the amendment was the result of fake news:
It also came into law in 1913 around which time a lot of fucky anti-American policies, laws, and instititions were established.
Let's also not forget that the 16th and 17th amendments were part of a progressive democratic agenda. Woodrow Wilson was elected shortly after the 16th and while the 17th was being ratified. The progressives took away state power with the two amendments, gave us the federal reserve, and progressive income taxes.
The history on the 16th and 17th amendments caught my interest. I found this article: https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2359-56392015000300035
One of the issues the author mentioned that motivated the 17th was corruption of state legislature appointments to the Senate. For example, after Congress passed the 17th, prior to its ratification, the Senate investigated the appointment of a Senator. Apparently Chicago corporations had raised $100,000 to buy off the votes of the Illinois legislature.
Interesting to look back on that today. Now we don't just have corrupt state interests controlling the election of two senators, we have national and global corrupt interests controlling the election of all senators simultaneously.
And now instead of buying 50%+ of a legislator, they just need to buy one Senator. :)
In all honesty, though, they knew that passing the 17th would further entrench the swamp.
They were the same swamp of communists we're dealing with now. Back in 2008, I ran across a political cartoon with Wilson and his cronies on a run away wagon filled with big bags of cash dumping the cash off the back. It had images of Marx and Trotsky. A family member filled me in on who the Wilson cronies were. All commies just like Wilson. These were the progressives Hillary styled herself after. They've just stepped out from behind the veil of progressive and are now running as full out communists. Of course they wanted to entrench the swamp. They wanted to end our democratic republic and replace it with democracy and from there replace it with communism and totalitarianism. It's always the same!