Right On.!!!
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Gaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 545 PEOPLE
> By Charlie Reese
>
> Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and
> then campaign against them.
>
> Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans
> are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
>
> Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against
> inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
>
> You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
>
> You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on
> appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
>
> You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
>
> You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
>
> You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank
> does.
>
> One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine
> Supreme Court justices -5 45 human beings out of the 300 million -
> are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the
> domestic problems that plague this country.
>
> I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that
> problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated
> its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally
> chartered, but private, central bank.
>
> I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound
> reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to
> coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-
> picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million
> dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject
> it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's
> responsibility to determine how he votes.
>
> Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that
> what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con
> regardless of party.
>
> What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive
> amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a
> Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating
> deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot
> force the Congress to accept it.
>
> The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole
> responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and
> approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the
> House? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow
> House members, not the president, can approve any budget they
> want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if
> they agree to.
>
> It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not
> replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of
> incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single
> domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545
> people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people
> exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that
> what exists is what they want to exist.
>
> If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
>
> If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
>
> If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in
> IRAQ.
>
> If they do not receive social security but are on an elite
> retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it
> that way. There are no insoluble government problems.
>
> Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they
> hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and
> advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to
> regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not
> let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied
> mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation,' or 'politics' that
> prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
>
> Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
>
> They, and they alone, have the power.
>
> They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are
> their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their
> own employees.
>
> We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
>
>
> Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel
> Newspaper.
>
>
> >
>
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