545 People

[Lauri]

                        This is good to read whichever PARTY you think you belong to.  It
                        should make everyone consider their voting VERY seriously.  How
                        did a media person ever write something like this?

                                 

                                                          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
                        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 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

                         

                         

                        One more comment from BT:  Charlie Reese is correct.  These 545 people have created many of the problems this country faces.  However, it is also true the we, the citizens of this country, reelect approximately 90% of the 545 every election.

                         

                        Therefore, we bear a great deal of the responsibility for the mess we have created.

[RightCoast]

cool

[Lauri]

cool

i should look it up on snopes and see if its accurate or not.. but i thought it was cool as well

[DixieBelle]

So we need 545 ass whoopins' to be handed out

[Lauri]

So we need 545 ass whoopins' to be handed out

yes we do!

McCain needs to harp on that fact that Congress has a lower approval rating than any time in history and help people realize it needs to be cleaned out from top to bottom.

[DixieBelle]

I'm so hoping he's got good people advising him.

[Baruch Menachem]

He is one of the 545 I really don't trust at all.

[Lauri]

I'm so hoping he's got good people advising him.

oh you and me both... McCain needs to get out there and start taking Obama down right now.. he has a good start with his response to Obama's Hamas issue.. but its just not getting any airplay anywhere.

so far..

[DixieBelle]

the media is still googly-eyed over the Obamamessiah. Give 'em time.