Folks, I’m typically not a political activist or one to comment on politics. But this reprint caused me to sit up and take heed in light of the horrific situation the USA is facing right now. This is definately worth the 3 minutes it will take you to read….

By Charlie Reese  Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. )

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, WHY we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation  and  high taxes, WHY 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’sresponsibility 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 ofthe 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 cannot 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.

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 exist 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 beheld  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!

Bob Kimball

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