Re: [vpFREE] Fwd: 545 vs 300,000,000

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> 545 vs 300,000,000
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> 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.
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> Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.
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> 545 PEOPLE
> By Charlie Reese
> Politicians are the only people in the world who
> create problems and then
> campaign against them.
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> Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and
> the Republicans are
> against deficits, WHY do we have
> deficits?
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> Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are
> against inflation and
> high taxes, WHY do we have
> inflation and high taxes?
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> You and I don't propose a federal budget. The
> president does.
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> You and I don't have the Constitutional authority
> to vote on appropriations.
> The House of Representatives does.
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> You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
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> You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
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> You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal
> Reserve Bank does.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> If the budget is in the red, it's because they want
> it in the red ...
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> If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because
> they want them in IRAQ.
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> 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.
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> There are no insoluble government problems.
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> 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.
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> 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.
> What you do with this article now that you have
> read it.......... is up to
> you.
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