Excellent post...thanks. But I suspect that even "if" we voted them out of
office, it would not do a whole lot of good. The ones who replace them
will
turn out to be just as bad. Perhaps, if we voted them out of office over
and over again, that would work....
"California Poppy" <GoldenStatePoppy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> This is good to read -- whichever PARTY you think you belong to. It
> should make everyone consider their voting VERY seriously.
> How did a media person ever write something like this?
>
> 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, we have deficits?
> Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against
> inflation and high taxes, 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 - 545 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
> 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 ****ft 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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