Dear Editor: Jim Buterbaugh is Right

Dear Editor,

Jim Buterbaugh wrote a recent letter espousing the value of education in our country’s founding documents. To some, I know this makes me sound like a curmudgeon of old school-ism but it is true. Jim is right.

Most arguments for the Convention of States about reigning in the Feds stem out of a lack of education/understanding of our founding documents. Anyone who has read those documents knows all the points COS promoters try to make are already addressed. The checks and balances are already there. They just need to be followed.

We have to know the rules of the “government” game so we know when someone commits a foul or causes a penalty. Just like football. Just like baseball.

We on the conservative side of the aisle often bark that new laws are not needed and that we just need to enforce the ones we already have. COS is the same thing is it not? Enforce the laws that are already on the books in the founding documents. We don’t need to try and reinvent the wheel here.

Tim Marden

Newberry, Florida