THE 545
PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICA'S WOES!!
BY CHARLEY 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.
A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY
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 G.W. BUSH 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 Democrats, not the president,
can approve any budget they want. If the
president vetoes it, they can pass it
over his veto.
REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS
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, from an unfair tax code to
defense overruns, that is not traceable
directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth
that 545 people exercise 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.
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 exist 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.
The election is not that far away!
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