Posted on 07/28/2008 9:20:10 AM PDT by calex59
RE-ELECT NOBODY! This is worthy of your time and attention … regardless of your Party Affiliation
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 – 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 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.
Well then you were lied to, because you can be president. You are a natural born citizen, period. If you are not natural born then you are not a citizen at all unless you passed the naturalization for citizenship. So, BS.
I am beginning to have a grudging admiration for you. You hang in there and defend what you believe is right. Gotta love you for that. Take care.
Calex59
McCain cannot say the same. The left has all the documentation, and hundreds of years of jurisprudence, to question and argue his constitutional suitability to be the Commander in Chief.
Me? I think he's qualified.
But what you and I think doesn't matter. ONLY what the Supremes say matters on this one.
I wouldn't take a bet on what that will be at any odds!
Then we agree about each other.
Should you ever be in Silicon Valley, drop me a line, I think we’d enjoy yapping over a couple liquid refreshments.
*sigh* Should be:
“Me? I think he’s both qualified and not qualified.”
I meant to say that although he has the skills and patriotism necessary to successfully execute the duties of the Office, he doesn’t meet all the qualifications listed in the employment ad.
(Which BTW hasn’t stopped me from getting jobs!)
You got that right. I think it would be fun talking to you in person. Take care. Cale59
i was just thinking the other day,
the only control we have over the government
is to not re-elect any politician.
Monday edition of Captain Obvious.
I've read all of the reasons why this is ill advised.
Yeah, and I still do not vote to keep the “professionals” in office.
I think we actually have someone running against our Congress-critter this year (a Demo-rat, I AM in the Bay Area, after all) this year, after two straight unopposed runs.
So, in '04 and '06, I did vote against the incumbent. Of course, I had to write-in someone. A fat lot of good it did, huh?
You are providing reasons for the intent of the Constitution. (Which is a good thing).
I agree. There are many in Congress and a few on the Supreme Court whom I would like to see stay and gain in influence. This "Throw them all out" mantra is usually by people who don't like their own representatives, the only ones they can have influence over, and they have not been able to affect them or get rid of them. So they want to throw everybody out, the good with the bad.
Thanks for the ping.
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