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Posted by: KingofSlackers

Just got this in my email and I really like it. Thought I would share.

RE-ELECT NOBODY

Worthy of your time and attention regardless of your Party Affiliation

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.& nbsp; 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 b ecause 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.

Posted by: Grape Ape

It would be great, except they would all just retain their positions until new elections could be held. I'd thoroughly enjoy seeing 535 new candidates... People who've never held political office would probably be the very best thing to happen in America, since the founding fathers wrote our constitution... But alas, you've got to be RICH to run for federal office anymore...

But hey, if we can get 534 others, I'd run for Congress!!!

Posted by: TNT

Anyone else ever read Executive Orders by Clancy?

It's pretty much my dream of how the government should be set up.

Posted by: KingofSlackers

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Originally Posted by Grape Ape


	It would be great, except they would all just retain their positions until new elections could be held. I'd thoroughly enjoy seeing 535 new candidates... People who've never held political office would probably be the very best thing to happen in America, since the founding fathers wrote our constitution... But alas, you've got to be RICH to run for federal office anymore... But hey, if we can get 534 others, I'd run for Congress!!!

I'm in.... who's funding this anyway??????

Posted by: Grape Ape

Therein lies the problem... Besides, it'd be difficult for me to be elected... Some schmuck would go digging and make a big deal about my having been arrested umpteen yrs ago and say I must be a bad person for defending myself when I could've simply allowed the "victim" to victimize me rather than taking action I'm lawfully allowed to take... In other words, we've got way too many sissies in this country... And for the record, I wasn't convicted.

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