545 People

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[Jess Kitting]

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, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, 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 equates to 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? Nancy Pelosi. 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.

[Jess Kitting]

This came to my e-mail inbox. Cannot find the original source. Very good read.

[TomGuy]

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

So true.

We didn't have that law for 200 years, so why did Congress need to pass it now?

Some laws are needed. Other laws are busy work to make politicians appear to be doing something useful. Heck, most politicians don't even read the legislation they vote on.

[Roccus]

See my tag

[Fu-fu2]

These kind of emails need to be passed around. Conservatives are facing a massive re-education process of the masses if we hope to stop this runaway socialism train....

[geologist]

This article was an editorial in the newspapers here in Texas about 6 months or so before he retired.
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“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.”

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Great ideas with which I am in agreement.

We had the chance for change coming up in the November election last fall. Charlie published the mentioned column several weeks before the election. Too many of the public ... take no notice or pay no attention. All the welfare recipients and government workers at all levels are unlikely to vote or be against the status-quo. MO

Shame! We did not act to remove the worst of them, or pay heed to what OBAMA said he would do. I voted for Sarah ...

[stubernx98]

It is simple:

All politicians lie, cheat and steal,
1/2 the population of the US have IQ’s less than 100
50% of the population are followers & follow there early established world view despite the true facts,
No such thing as a true fact,

[DustyMoment]

An oldie but a goody. This one has been around for a couple of years.

Still bears repeating, periodically, for those who haven’t seen it!!

[visualops]

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

I say we vote in new people to clean it up, because I already have one full time job and a part time job, and I paid THEM *NOT* to MAKE A MESS in the FIRST PLACE! lol

[ExTxMarine]

Again, any Congress critter (one with more than two terms under their belt) needs to be REMOVED from office! If they are re-elected, then we will continue to go down this stupid, disastrous trail that we have been on since the early 1900’s!

We left the cart path and decided this “new way” was faster, but we have come to realize that reason it is “faster” is because we are going DOWN HILL!!

VOTE THEM ALL OUT - regardless of party affiliation, VOTE THEM OUT! That is the ONLY solution!

[r9etb]

All very convenient, blaming those 545 folks... when in fact 536 of them -- all but the 9 supreme court justices -- are there because American voters put them there.

We have nobody but ourselves to blame.

[Florida native]

In the 70's, Congress voted/mandated that all cars will reduce CO emissions by installing catalytic converters that resulted in Co2 emissions (converted).

Now they're against Co2 and want Cap and Trade as somehow that's going to reduce Co2 emissions.

We have an OLIGARCHY - 545 elitists ruling over 300 Million < half of which have no common sense.