545 people.

[Nutz4sand]

I just got this in an email and have seen it before. But in case someone has not.    Bill




EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE.  READ IT  AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.



Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.
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 epresentatives 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?   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 theOrlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... is up to you.

[fabr]

Here! Here! Bravo! Very well put.

[trojan]

In my (as always) most humble opinion, the problem in a nutshell is those people are not accountable in proportion to their responsibility.... if they were then it WOULD be different.... exactly like the police.... "bad boys - bad boys - what ya gonna do?"

[fabr]

I agree.A lot of police ARE the bad boys.WAY too many are.

[fabr]

In my (as always) most humble opinion, the problem in a nutshell is those people are not accountable in proportion to their responsibility.... if they were then it WOULD be different.... exactly like the police.... "bad boys - bad boys - what ya gonna do?"

They're not held accountable because of the FACT that there's enough of the people ,with their hand out waiting for something for nothing, more than willing to vote these leeches back into office.

[trojan]

they are accountable, somewhat, just not in proportion to the responsibility... cops rarely go to jail for committing a crime, usually they are merely dismissed, same with politicians and judges.

[fabr]

they are accountable, somewhat, just not in proportion to the responsibility... cops rarely go to jail for committing a crime, usually they are merely dismissed, same with politicians and judges.

Accountable to who? LOL!!!!

Cops are rarely dismissed.To avoid problems the cops are usually back on the job the very next day.Usually the victim of any misaction of the police will settle out of court with confidentiality clauses calling for forfeiture of settlement funds if settlement details are ever made public. THe officer is not even disciplined due to union restrictions.You can't punish someone for what cannot be disclosed.
 We had a cop in town here that was the cause of over 3 million dollars in out of court settlements for 3 separate incidents. How do we know this? THe sorry bastard cop  that was the cause of it let it out. Nothing can be done to him tho since the nondisclosure clause only applied to the victims and he is no longer an officer. He retired with full retirement package and guess what .He now has just recently retired with his SECOND retirement package from the city in another department!!!! THE SAME CITY!!!!