545 vs. 300 Million

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 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? 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 (you) 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.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!