Jerry’s Constitutional Convention

4/21/2020

This morning the SIMH is “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?” —written and recorded by Waylon Jennings. And Waylon didn’t do it the way Hank did. In fact, nobody done it the way Hank did it. I tried this morning to see if I could get that song to go out of my head, but it persisted. The way “ol’ Hank” did it has never been duplicated. Yes, it’s true ol’ Hank shortened his life by what he fed his body, but what he did in the time spent was remarkable. His humility before the Lord Jesus Christ in many of his songs is quite astounding. A line about Hank in another Waylon/Hank, Jr song says, “Back then they called him crazy, now the call him a saint.” The story goes that his recording company didn’t want to record his “religious leaning songs” under his name, so most of them are under the name Luke the Drifter. Ol’ Luke had some very clear and simple grace filled leanings. Hank and Waylon are both high on my enjoyable list.

Placing a pre-eminence on what to write about next sometimes boggles the mind. My rants about the idiocy of the government, or the rants over the lack of common sense, even the frustrations over being at home a lot and not out  amongst ‘em, all these things add to my boggled mind. More and more I hear people say, “Has it really come to this?” or Come on, this can’t be happening!” and “I never thought I’d see….”

What are we to do. Over and over, on FaceBook, in sermons and on here, I continually remind people that WE are the government. We determine what our elected officials pass off as ordinances, edicts and laws. We, the people, formed and can re-form government! How did we come to forget that? Why do we kowtow to anything coming from congress that congress wants to force upon us? Folks, it is not a rebellion nor a mutiny or for that matter, an insurrection for us to demand of our governing bodies that THEY do what WE want. They work for us. Following is my personal idea of how to fix this:

1.) Re-elect Donald Trump (I don’t care if you like him or not, he gets things done.)

2.) Consider anyone running for the House or the Senate on the basis of these things: A. Abortion is murder; B. They cannot budget money they don’t have therefore it cannot be spent-(no more debt); C. Lobbyists cannot be heard and cannot financially support candidacies. Pro and Con representatives can convey their reasonings, but only without coercion.

3.) Federal Government activities must be confined to the clear definition in the constitution only and cannot include other ancillary definitions.

4.) All other rights and privileges are the sovereignty of the individual states.

Then, with the new Congress; outlaw any and all lobbying. Officeholders must listen to the individuals who elected them and to them only(residents of each elected official’s constituency.)

Then, no other action by this new congress shall supersede devising a plan to integrate term limits for each house, eliminating retirement funds, extended health plans for life, etc. Phase out all existing retirement programs after the receiving of such for five years. 

Term limits for the House of Representatives, shall be 3, three year terms. For the Senate; 2, five year terms. Campaigns for both the houses of Congress shall be no more than 90 days prior to election. For the President/Vice-President, no longer than 180 days. No person shall be eligible for either office until 35 years of age. Staff and aides shall be at least 21 years of age and leave public service in the House or Senate at the end of their 20th year or sooner (not to exclude their right to run for elected office.)

Presidential appointees shall be limited in service as the President is: not more than ten years of service. All staff below the appointees shall have a 20 year limit of service.

Individual states shall determine any other requirements their electorate votes to allow, just as they allow their own bodies of government and its jurisdiction.

Some of you will say, “Why, they’ll never get anything done!” That’s probably true—that’s a good thing, right? Soon, they would learn what their job was and tend to it, don’tcha think?

Do I think any of this will come about? Only #1. I think the people will re-elect Donald Trump. Besides that, I can only hope. 

Why am I bothered by all this? I have before expressed in this blog that the existing gravity has come about on my generation’s watch. We have allowed all these things to fester and grow beyond measure. We now have professional politicians getting elected over and over again when they do not get anything done, many times not even making themselves aware of that for which they are voting. They ask an aid, or a colleague, or their favorite lobbyist how to vote.

Washington as a system is a fat, sloppy hog with a feeding trough so big, that the elected body cannot get from one end of it to the other, yet they believe they have license to stay there for the rest of their life and try. Throw the whole lot of them out, who act that way! 

Having said all this, still it is best if we learn to trust the Lord, and eternity is longer than this life. He is our helper, and we need not worry what man shall do to us.

Thanks for reading, the Elder