How and why candidates lie to the public

As we are getting closer and closer to the primary election, all of the candidates are doing frequent “debates.” They aren’t actually debates as you just get a few minutes to give your message, and then answer in turn one or two audience questions.

What is a theme of the other candidates, and I suspect candidates across the country is the notion of amending our Constitution. I routinely hear the other candidates speak of pushing for a Constitutional Convention, a Term Limits Amendment, repealing the Sixteenth Amendment that authorizes income taxes and replace with a “Fair Tax,” a Balanced Budget Amendment and so on.

What they don’t mention are the facts. Why? Because the public likes the idea of significant change and grandiose plans, and these enormous changes sound great.

After all, if I spoke at an event and announced that everyone in the room would win the lottery if they voted for me, many would even though the notion is absurd.

My omission would be that I fail to mention the missing words… “sometime in the next fifty years if all played every week and I only guarantee a $10 prize.” This is similar to President Obama repeatedly stating that “We’re a nation of laws,” forgetting the last part of the sentence… “selectively applied.”

Let me cover the Balanced Budget Amendment, one of the most frequent lies that candidates talk about to get votes. Let’s say it actually passes and is ratified. What then? As our government borrows forty cents from every dollar they spend, they’ll have to reduce spending by that forty cents. It’s never happened before, and will be a disaster for our economy if they do it quickly. They only spend more.

Even if it’s a 2% a year reduction for decades, we are so deeply in debt it won’t make a difference.

My solution is to eliminate federal corporate taxes so we’ll instantly become the world’s largest  tax haven. Trillions of foreign dollars will come here instantly creating millions and millions of new manufacturing jobs. Why? So the foreign companies won’t pay a dime on their profits. At the same time, the millions of new workers will pay income taxes offsetting the Treasury revenue loss.

The public wants to believe, and that’s why candidates (and politicians) say what they do. The truth has nothing to do with it. I like speaking the truth. I don’t have to remember what I said to different groups; I give the same message to everyone.

I, specifically, tell the audiences that I do not want to promote a Term Limits Amendment or the others because it (and the others) are very unlikely to pass Congress and be ratified by ¾ of the states, within a certain time.

It will take far too long anyway as Washington politicians are clearly insane for spending and borrowing as fast as they do, we’ll be bankrupt long before any Amendment can be passed. I firmly believe that foreign nations will stop lending us money before 2020 and we’ll lose control of the dollar as the number one reserve currency. It will get ugly, fast.

As you can read elsewhere, a quick and relatively easy fix for a Term Limits Amendment is to void congressional pensions if they don’t quit. That will let new people replace them not trapped by long standing agreements with special interests. Washington is all about money, so incumbents will quit rather than lose their pensions.

I’m all about practical solutions to our nation’s problems. I have many.

So here are the facts –

Constitutional Conventions –

How many have we had since 1776? One. My research shows over 700 attempts, but only one was convened. That was in 1787, 227 years ago.

Constitutional Amendments –

We have twenty-seven ratified Amendments; the first ten are the Bill of Rights, leaving seventeen. Of those seventeen, Prohibition was ratified by the Eighteenth Amendment and the Twenty-First Amendment repealed it fourteen years later.

The last one took 202 years to ratify in 1992. Since then six more have not been ratified by the states and as the clock ticks, probably won’t be. That means we haven’t changed the Constitution in twenty-two years. Even the Equal Rights Amendment didn’t pass. What chances are there for a Term Limits Amendment and others? Close to none.

Here’s the shocking statistic – true to form, elected politicians have gone through the motions of pushing for Amendments as they said they would during the election cycle. It’s called dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.

So how many Amendments have been submitted in Congress? Over 11,500!

In other words, this is all theater designed to get votes. Nothing more, nothing less. Only one candidate provides real solutions to our problems.

Do you own research. If you do, you’ll vote to me.