I guess Liberals don't wonder about this stuff... I am not surprised.
On Oct 1, 12:21 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
