quote:Originally posted by Old Glory:
Do you think a Constitutional Amendment would do any good? The Constitution mandates a budget every year but there hasn't been one in four years.
Valid point. I think we need an amendment becuase no congress can bind future congresses, so even if we had a group of rational adults in and they passed commonsense budgets and laws, in 2+ years a future congress could undo the whole thing. Perhaps, as part of the amendment if congress and the white house failed to produce a budget all the law makers would not get paid, including thier staffs. Extreme, but I think we need something extreme if we are going to turn things around. If you ran a business like our federal government you would first be out of business and secondly be going to jail for accounting fraud.