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I've spent the last four years working as a volunteer with Move To Amend to restore our Constitution back to what it was before the Supreme Court came up with the bullshit notion that money is equivalent to free speech and that corporations have inalienable human rights. I've read most everything regarding an Article V Convention, which was included in our Constitution for this exact situation -- a corrupt Congress in bed with moneyed special interests. If you know anything about economics you'd know that a balanced budget amendment is a terrible idea. When the economy tanks, the government becomes the spender of last resort. With BBA, we'd go into a recession and never come out. The real problem is, when the economy is good, we need to pay down the debt aggressively. We don't do that. Instead, we cut taxes for the rich. Everyone hates the government and indeed it's royally screwed up. The reason it's screwed up is the politicians are just puppets of their "funders". This article barely touches on the key issue. There should no fear of a runaway convention, since both houses in 38 states have to ratify any amendment. The purpose of Kapenga's AB635 is to disenfranchise the voters of WI. The Tea Party is engineering America's first Artice V Convention in history. And they don't want the citizens, the voters, the little people to have any say in what happens. They want the Governor and the Republican legislator to hand pick the delegates to America's first Artice V Convention. If one of their hand picked delegates has the nerve to bring up the problem of corruption, the billions of dollars that buy politicians so that international corporations pay no taxes and have no regulations, then those delegates can be charged with felony arrest, for disobeying the "instructions" of their corrupt masters. Our democracy is long gone. Replaced by a government that only cares about moneyed special interests. The oligarchs use divide and conquer to keep all us little people fighting left versus right, while they pick at the corpse of our representative republic. If you care about your children, if you care about America, you need to wake up, get off the couch and get active. Find the Move To Amend group near you.