"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts -
not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
[--Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858]
Posted on 05/19/2008 3:28:05 PM PDT by diverteach
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 still have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we still 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 foreign controlled 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 the Congress created that problem. In 1913, Congress turned over its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a group of mostly foreign banking families. These few powerful families have no allegiance to any country, only to their own greed.
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 do it.
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 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 voters, who are their bosses – provided the voters have the gumption to organize and vote the 545 failures out of office. Then to replace them with honest people who will follow the constitution.
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"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts -
not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
[--Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858]
Seriously... I am not a PC maven or anything... but one should endeavor not to use the term cotton-picking in written or verbal communication unless the intent is to transmit racial ideas.
I can.
Hurricane Katrina.
Clearly Bush's Fault.
Are you saying only people of one race pick cotton? There were many poor whites who also picked cotton on small farms. So, there is no racial component. Cotton picking is a back-bracking business. It’s a great metaphor. Leave it alone.
My now 80-year-old (white) mother picked cotton as a child in Texas. She always told me about how heavy the long sack was and how the bolls pricked her fingers.
I believe this is a slight variation of an article originally written by Charley Reese, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, that has recently been updated and recirculated.
http://www.apfn.org:80/APFN/woes.htm
Yeah, I expect this to be in my hotmail account inbox in a matter of days attributed to either Ted Nugent, George Carlin, (or more ludicrously) Billy Joel-HA!, an anonymous marine, and so on.
Yep, that sure looks like the same thing. Good catch!
one should endeavor not to use the term cotton-picking in written or verbal communication unless the intent is to transmit racial ideas.
In earlier times, cotton picking was not a racial issue, it was a farming or financial issue and there aren’t many white people growing up in the rural south before 1950 that didn’t have the honor and privilege of being one.
There might be something to this. I got the same in an email from a card carrying, Bush hating, liberal. And he agreed with dumping the whole lot.
It’s 95% of politicians who give the other 5% a bad name. Truthfully, about 90% of Congress ought to be taken out and shot.
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Thanks to the Administration and Congress we no longer have a Constitutional Republic, as the courts were neutered in the last century. Reference.
My grandmother, deceased since 1965, picked cotton in South Carolina and I remember seeing her do it as a 4 year old child — along with her oldest daughter, now deceased, my other, still living, and a couple of cousins, still living. My grandmother was born in 1888. In upper S. Carolina one saw practically no one but whites picking cotton in the waning days of cotton in the 1940s and early 1950s on small farms.
I received this in a email today. I really enjoyed reading it.
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