Posted on 08/23/2009 7:33:12 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
545 vs. 300,000,000
EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.
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 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 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.
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.
Somebody ought to start a 536 movement and get rid of every one of the buggers (less the SCOTUS, which is lifetime). No incumbents, none, not even the ones you like.
Make them public servants again, rather than lifetime politicians.
We weren't in Iraq in 1985.
Specters answer to term limits was that they have term limits, they’re called elections. To a certain extent, he is right. The problem is that politics have become an insiders job. It’s always the same people running. Look what they are doing to Palin because she’s not an elite insider. Most people don’t have the courage that Palin and her family have so they don’t run. DC needs new “blood”. But I think that people don’t want to be attacked by the political machines.
AMEN! I've only been saying that since about 1970...
Pelosi wasn’t the Speaker in 1985 either.
To put it in today’s perspective, the trouble numbers do not include the 34+ Czars who probably have more influence on you and me than Congress- except the Czars are only accountable to The One.
Their weren’t 300 million people in the US in 1985 either.
The original article was updated and sent out by email
in 2008.
An article written by Reese for the Orlando Sentinel newspaper on March 7, 1985 under the title Looking For Someone To Blame? Congress Is Good Place To Start was widely read and distributed in modified form via e-mail during 2008 United States presidential campaign under the title The 545 People Responsible for America’s Woes.[10][11] The article commonly forwarded in 2008 was slightly modified from the 1980s version, substituting Pelosi for Tip O’Neil and adding a reference to Iraq. It is not clear if the modifications were made by Reese, as the e-mail claimed. Quote from the original 1985 article:
“One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices — 545 human beings out of the 235 million — are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.” [12][13]
That part was apparently added later. This is the original.
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G.R.I.P.= Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!
The Movement started in NJ, I just wish it would grow faster!
It would make a great T-shirt or sign for the National Tea Party!
Oh, yes, the czars. Wow. Forgot about them.
Acourse, you get rid of the one, the czars are gone, too.
I save these mailings until I get furious, then I take a red marker and hand print a message with something like Sarah Palin 2012 or Liz Cheney all the way, or we need more conservatives like Bobby Jindal, etc. I use the Republican parties' paid stamped return envelopes that are enclosed in all of their mailings and this time I'm going to enclose this article along with my red marker hand written message!
Sure would like to keep Michele Bachmann, though.
That’s the problem!
Scott Garrett is my Rep., he’s a good conservative. If the movement is going to take hold we MUST vote out all incumbents.
Hey, that's a darn catchy movement title. No kidding, that would work. The 536 Movement, yeah, I like it.
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