Posted on 02/24/2009 8:22:52 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan
Posted today in between computer shut downs. No intro today. I suspect the SS is coming for me for inappropriate (read: conservative) material. :o)
Wouldn’t that be fun!
If your regular breaks are “obscene profit center break” what is it called after the break and you do a live break?
I’d have to go with “perverted profit center break”.
Hi dear.
Hi CC
Even Jesus used the punishment for those who practice perversion as a degree of sin.
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. 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-job 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.
Many aren’t paying attention. It’s easy to do when the media are Obamunist Propagandists, suppressing and hiding all of the bad economic news and refusing to link it to the Obamunist policies./p
I talked to another dad at my son’s wrestling practice last week. He’s a hedge fund manager. He’s expecting hyper inflation and currency collapse. He’s talking about the “fema camps” and saying that they are really meant to do deal with coming food riots in the cities./p
Me, I’m planning to learn to hunt deer.
Good stuff.
Nice post!
Bob!
Hi their kiddo!
“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.”
The Federal Reserve is a privately owned corporation controlled by banking interests, mostly outside of this country.
This is also true of the IRS, a tax collection agency independant of the Gov’t. They are obliged to operate under Article 15, yet claim to be operating under Article 26.
I recommend head shots. That way they drop where they stand so you don't have to chaase them and it also eliminates adrenalin from pumping through their systems which gives the meat a gamey taste.
Never heard that before. That's a pretty small target compared to the heart.
Thanks for the tip. I’m picking up my Fed ID to purchase firearms from my local PD soon. Any recommendations on a good deer hunting gun? I heard there are caliber restrictions in NJ due to the proximity of housing to hunting areas.
Charley, get real.
Has anyone else not been able to get Yahoo main page or Yahoo Mail since yesterday?
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