People Should Be Disgusted With Congress For This

[Music] brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today hi so I have a question in general how we can change our federal politicians meaning is there a way that we as the people could Institute term limits um for our congressmen we already have term limits for Governors and obviously presidents but is there something that we can do I mean because they're not going to vote on it they're not going to approve their own term limits what can we do as people to get this changed yeah well good question so for those of you who can't remember learning about this in the fifth or sixth or seventh grade give you the quick answer there's two ways that that the American people could bring forth an amendment to the Constitution um and uh it would take an amendment to the Constitution to actually create term limits for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives the first is I think you know this Joy um a congressional proposal so a current member of Congress on the Senate side or the house side could put forth a proposal to amend the US Constitution because this is a not this not legislation this is an actual amendment to the Constitution in order to get term limits so it would take one of the 435 members of Congress right Senate house uh to actually put the proposal forward and then it would take a two-thirds majority vote of uh both the house and the Senate to actually get this going that's never ever just to get it going no no to get it through no it would the proposal one person could do it to propose it absolutely but uh Joy you're right those men and women up there are never going to vote to term limit themselves the second way there's no way on the state level that we could say yes you can yes you can I'm getting there I'm getting there sorry I had to give you the full picture all right the other way it can happen is is a constitutional convention and this is where uh 2/3 of the 50 states so that would be 34 out of 50 states could call for a constitutional convention then propose the amendment which would be term limits and then the ratification process would require three4 or 38 out of the 50 state legislators uh legislator by conventions to vote for it so if you said all right we want a term limit so you'd have to have a majority of 34 states would all have to agree their House and Senate would say all right we're doing this convention then they take it to the convention and out of the 34 states that said yes we should talk about it 38 George would have to say vote in a majority by the way so Tennessee's House and Senate would have to vote for the amendment and they would have to be with 37 other states 38 States total Joy would then amend the Constitution which by the way while we're talking about this last week on the show I proposed a balanced budget amendment so Joy the answer your question is this would have to be a ground swell a Grassroots movement where the state legislators and the governors of those States said we probably should listen to the people of our state and we should do this so it's going to take a massive grassroot movement massive massive organized George Grassroots movement and Joy that's the only way it happens and the framers of our constitution by the way uh they made it this difficult on purpose so that you can't just you know get a angry mob together and change the Constitution so is it difficult yes is it possible yes will it happen probably not thanks for your vote of confidence Joy listen to me joy I want you to hear me say on the record I'm for term limits uh I would propose it right now if I were in Congress and my proposal to anybody that wants to take it to their Congressman by the way if you want to call them here's the proposal one term in the Senate which is six years George and three terms in the house which is six years everybody gets six years to do damage or do good and then you're out so Joy I'm for it I'm also for a balanced budget amendment and I'll say this again as I said it last week this is a money show and our audience is always thinking about money you vote with your wallet and I'm telling you the balanced budget amendment would be the first thing Joy I would do I would put term liit limit second I would like to see the American people say you know what we should require the federal government to balance the budget so that we don't drain our resources our tax dollars for debt I ran in I ran into bob L A couple years ago and was asking him some local questions and um to be honest with you he told me that you have to be in DC so long to get a to the right committees to make any difference that basically even if he is there his entire career he would just be getting to where he needs to be to make any change yeah that's absolutely right and that just left me hanging with my mouth open and frankly disgusted yeah you should be but here's the deal we need more people to be disgusted not with the other party and not with the other candidate but be disgusted with both parties and their management of the resources in this nation because we can argue about all these social issues and all this other stuff and by the way where we are I'm just going to say this while I'm on it I'm just going to say this no one can stop you except for everyone in the booth no here's the deal our political discourse in this country has now devolved on both sides to insults and accusations when I listen to both candidates talk I don't hear anything about a vision for the future I don't hear it I don't hear about a vision for let's let's balance the federal budget so we don't mortgage our children's Futures away what are we doing to actually make Social Security solvent today I I just don't hear it so anyway enough of that it's no Solutions just more fearmongering and going life's going to be better if you vote from to the spirit of Joy's question the American people through their state government can make a huge difference and that's how you're going to have to do it yeah I I have very little faith in any of this happening in my lifetime especially because in this situation Ken the very people who would lose power are the ones who vote on it in one of these Solutions 100% right so why would they do that why would you yeah so you know Civics 101 there it is possible uh but let let's say this uh we have millions upon millions of Ramsey Show listeners and viewers YouTube podcast Radio I'm not saying we should do this but if the millions and millions of people that are listening to us and watch us were to say you know what let's take a shot at this let's mobilize let's get after a balanced budget amendment and let's take it to our state representatives and state senators and maybe even a governor you know what would you get it done right away probably not but if you got 20 states that went public and said we're proposing a constitutional amendment we need 30 uh we need uh 14 more you might see it happen so I do think over a period of two to six years you could probably get to a point where it was even possible but this is about money and I think the American people should be uniting around money not social issues just what is what is the result of us being 30 some trillion dollars in debt that's not just a whoops it's a line item well just like we do with our personal finances at some point the number becomes so astronomical you it becomes fake it becomes this like Monopoly money situation and you go well our grandkids will deal with that Y which is frightening but George I'm going to I'm going to say something that you may be shocked by but if I were to put you in the room with the Congressional budget office and all the Committees and everything and you got the and I put you in a room and I said we'll give you guys uh three Square meals a day you get uh eight hours of sleep you're back in there I believe we could fix it that you could balance the budget now people are going to fight over it but the point is you could balance the budget you absolutely could well you know spend less than you make it sounds that simple bit about that you literally could go well this is a little this is like the Netflix subscription you know we're Fe set of Netflix you're like you're sending how many billions to this country every day start looking it up can we cut that subscription yeah we got we got a new feeding program for the rare spotted owl okay love the spotted owl but they're not as important as my kids cut it George cut it the spotted owl folks would like to have a word with you Ken you see my point yeah but what would you say to the person who would fight you over the Netflix subscription you'd say cut it would you not go well we have to agree on the goal if the goal is to spend less money now we got to go where are we going to cut it all right see you come at from a financial standpoint then George camel's the hero I'm in I love it we'll see if we can get George elected get the government 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