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THESE ARE THE IDIOTS WHO BRING YOU "UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE" AND "CAP AND TRADE" TO SITE A FEW CURRENT ISSUES.


545 vs. 300,000,000 (Republicans & Democrats Alike - No One Is Blameless)

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS WRITTEN 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 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 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.

What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you have several choices:

1. You can send this to everyone in your address book and hope "they" do something about it.
2. You can agree to "vote against" everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to "run for office" yourself and agree to do the job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing or re-elect the current bunch.

Everyone in the white house including y'alls president ( I refuse to call him mine) needs to be ran out of the white house and put on their own little island so they can continue with their rule amongst themselves.. with NO pay!

I agree 100%!

I also proclaimed to be a "man with no president", right after the election!

As far as I'm concerned...I don't claim him as such! He may be everyone else's, he's sure not mine! He and the present government is the sorriest excuse for a government...I've seen in my life time!

I know. People complain about Bush but he was by far not the worst. I'd take him back any day over what we have ( actually DON'T have!) in the white house. With is Jackie Kennedy wannabe wife. She could never compare!

Yep...you got the same idea I have...finally someone, that don't have their head buried in the sand!

I saw through his veil of lies from day one...

We vote all those sorry humans into office so WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GOVERNMENT WE HAVE either because we do not vote and make the choice or because we vote based on ulterior motives not associated with the betterment of this country, etc....

We the people are the government of this country and we the people need to face our responsibilities.

Well I refuse to take responsibility for the new schmuck in the white house because I did NOT put him there! I think alot of people are starting to realize their mistake in this... a little too late!

And WE THE PEOPLE are getting what WE deserve in return

Yeah.. it's called CHANGE! Something he mesmerized people with. How do you like his change (lies) so far?

I was against him from day -1!

He turned the election race into a "race of race"! JMO

When I went to vote, I sat at a table next to a black elderly lady with here son. He was the one that was telling/showing her what boxes to check... As I sat there, he never read the 1 st option, in order to let her make up her own mind! That is what made me realize my previous comment. He had already filled his out...there was a movement to get as many votes, anyway they could.

Anyway...I'll get off this subject...will end up having to take a blood pressure pill, if I don't!

I know what you mean. Talking about Obama and his league of epic fails gets my pressure boiling too. Funny thing is I've never cared much about politics until this election. And it had nothing to do with race. Don't know how anyone could even figure race into it when he is mixed!

Considering Obama has been in office for 5 months he is DEEFINITELY responsible for all the countries woes, yea right.

HE HAS THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE if he really wanted to HELP the people. Instead he wants to turn the fate of America and its people, we the people, over to a private banking cartel to decide our fates.

5 months in office is plenty of time to show us change, however, the only promise or change we get is continued Bush policies, more power to the bankers, higher taxes and "it's gonna get worse..." forget about the before it gets better part, won't happen!

All the people who think he is going to make a big difference need to take off their rose colored glasses and come to grips with reality. His change is not for the better. He is putting this country in bankruptcy day by day. Had he taken stimulus money and spread it amongst the people (about $44,000 per person) then the economy would once again be booming and he would not have had to give this money to GM and other corporations. People would have went out and bought cars, put down payments on forclosed homes, etc. and perhaps that could have made a change! But he is not that smart so go figure.

My 71 year old parents are saying that Bush was the worst President in their lifetime.

Good to know ya'll whine as well as the next guy.

Your right we did it for you. In fact the more I hear poeple say shallow unkind things about him and his wife and I see how he stands up to it, the more I like him.

Wow, now you're complaining about his wife? She's an intelligent woman that is a lawyer and a mother. I remember Jackie Kennedy, btw.

From day one huh? Payed that much attention? What exactly were you doing looking at someone elses vote? How do you know what the old lady's intentions were. Is it not possible the young man knew what she wanted and she needed assistance to find the right box. Oh no. of course it had to be sinister. what else could it have been?