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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, 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.
What you do with this article now that you have
read it is up to you, though you appear to have several choices.
1. You can send this to everyone in your address
book, and hope they do something about it.
2. You can agree to vote against everyone that is
currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to run for office yourself and
agree to do the job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or
re-elect the current bunch.
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