Posted on 05/11/2008 8:58:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
Great post. Truer words have never been uttered on this subject. I agree wholeheartedly: )
“Don’t blame me, I did NOT vote for McCain”
When it comes, buy this bumper sticker in quantity. One won’t be nearly enough.
I don’t like one party rule. It was tried in Arkansaw under Clinton and California under Schwarzenegger. It doesn’t work.<
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 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
Thank you. I wish it weren’t necessary to post it once.
I appreciate the comment.
D1
That Soros comment was a hoot. I’ve found no McCain supporters to date that find his funding of the McCain/Feingold effort to be troubling at all. You’ve really got to ask yourself what’s up with that.
Thanks for the comments.
Thanks for the response. It reveals where your true loyalties lie. That’s okay with me.
If our own sovereignty and self-determination doesn’t register on your radar, I can’t make it. Later...
In all honestly, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. I will respond that a guy who is much better than the worst, can still do more harm than the worst person can, if he is strategically placed and has no opposition.
Perhaps you agree with that and perhaps not. Sorry I didn’t quite get your point.
Ah, now I know where you’re coming from. I agree with your comments. One will not be enough.
This parallels my own thoughts about the current condition in the state of California. I wouldn't have been able to address it like Charlie Reese did here though. I am in the unenviable position of having a state government out of control in the same manner our federal government is, so the comments hit home doubly.
Very nice.
Very good point.
“.....Vote for conservatives and you will have a conservative party.......”
You got that part right.
I think that we could swap the entire California legislature, with the professional FUBARS we have in DC and not one taxpayer would notice the difference. We somehow manage to elect or re-elect the most freespending, self centered, dishonest sonsabitches that have ever run for public office. That doesn’t say too much for us, does it?
No, I’m afraid it doesn’t. It says a lot about us collectively, but it doesn’t say anthing for us.
I agree that the swap out wouldn’t even be noticed.
Don’t miss John McCain’s big campaign speech when he attends the La Raza Annual Convention in San Diego on July 14, 2008!
Clearly “the elite’ has things just the way they intend them and are progressing to complete to a stage of total control ...
over everything we do,
everything we are offered to buy,
everything (in general).... information the media, newspapers, etc. bring to the people .... twisted, disinformation largely.
The devaluation of our dollar,
inflation, recession,
the coming food price surges,
and the coming $10.00 a gallon gasoline,
and the heavy taxation of how much energy we use to stay cool, or warm,
powers over all our property and how much our taxes increase at every level,... sales tax, city tax, county tax, school tax, college tax, hospital tax, income tax, social security is taxed, Medicare tax and now prescription tax is also withheld from social security, to name a few ... gasoline tax, hidden taxes we are not aware of , airport tax !!!!!!!!!!
we are quickly going to realize that we are indeed already living in a fascist state.
Rules & Regulations on business and (look at the prices in the car industry).
Disquised, of course, and so far we have not awakened.
We are under an unrelenting barrage of distraction ...cell phones, Ipods, computers, T.V. etc. and entertainment also is party hardy, workaholics, persecution of (Christianity),
abortion, immigration, one world order,environment police,right of imminent domain, Trans Texas and the super highway, nafta, cafta ...
imagine what it will be in 10 years ... from now
If the generation of 50/60 years ago were to be surveyed ... they could tell you that this nation today has changed dramatically and in the case of freedom ... liberty ... controls, taxes, laws,etc.
it is almost unrecognizable
Remember ... every law or legislation that is passed is a limit to or loss of ... freedom. May God have mercy on the U.S. and its people. Pray.
Everything you say against McCain is true. But if you hold out for better (and, as a result of such decisions by you and others like you, HillObama wins), we will be saddled with 3 or even more SCOTUS Justices who are 40-year-old versions of Ginsburg. That is a legacy that 2012 and 2016 cannot undo, no matter how well the conservatives do in those elections and for decades upon decades thereafter. I have yet to hear you justify that tradeoff or even try to. I think you cannot, except perhaps to yourself.
And I have yet to see you explain why I should vote for a guy who voted to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Why is there such a disconnect on this matter? You tout McCain over Obama, and McCain voted for the worst justice we have.
What if the Rapture occurred before the election in November.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach AdonaiBarak Hussein Obama would be the World's leader.
He will make peace in the Holy Land for 3 1/2 years.
I actually have explained, twice now: Because better to get a troops-supporting guy who’ll pick O’Connors than a HillObama cut-and-runner who’ll pick young Ginsbergs.
Now your turn (again). What dodge will you come up with this time? I probably won’t read it, as your vanity here (in two senses of the word) has you approaching my very small ignore list.
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