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545 People, by Charlie Reese - READ THIS! - RF Cafe Forums
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Post subject: 545 People, by Charlie Reese - READ THIS!
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:00 pm
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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 game 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 cannot 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 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.)
However,
it is also true the we, the citizens of this country, reelect approximately 90% of the
545 every election. Therefore, we bear a great deal of the responsibility for the mess
we have created .........
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