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Emailed: Author Charley Reese - sent by Richard Hamilton <rhham2@msn.com>
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.
Vote Against Every Incompetent. Oops, I meant Incumbent - but
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