545 people vs

300,000,000 people

–very

interesting!!


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

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, theFederal
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.