Unnecessary Convention to Control Government Spending

The Washington Times reports that there is a movement to use a Constitutional Convention to support a program which would rein in excessive government spending. This would more properly be called a Convention to Propose Amendments to the United States Constitution.
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a Constitutional Convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by Constitutional Convention.
The problem, with a Constitutional Convention called for by the states is that it opens a process by which any issue can be introduced for Constitutional Amendment; it would not be limited to the reigning in of excessive government spending. Democrats/Socialists would love this procedure, since it would be an open door to modify the Constitution in any number of ways, with the only provision that there would be enough states to agree. The traditional way to establish a constitutional amendment is through Congress and this has worked satisfactorily in the past.
In addition, let's also remember that the voters already have control of government spending through Congress through the simple electoral process. Voters simply need to address the fact that if they asked a Congressional representatives to vote positively on every porkbarrel spending program, it will break the back of the country. If the voters also see that their Congressional representatives are not voting to curtail government spending, the voters can then vote out of office the non-cooperating legislator.