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545 VS. 300 MILLION
REGARDLESS OF PARTY - NO ONE IS BLAMELESS
Politicians are the only people who can 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?
We (the people) don’t propose a federal budget, the President does. We don’t have the authority to vote on appropriations, the House of Representatives does. We don’t write the tax code or set fiscal policy, Congress does. We don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. In the end, only 100 Senators, 435 Congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices – 545 human beings out of the 300 million U.S. citizens are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
For the sake of this argument, the members of the Federal Reserve Board were excluded because that problem was created by Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. Also, all the special interest groups and lobbyists were excluded for a sound reason – they have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do anything. It doesn’t matter if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it - in the end, how they vote is their sole responsibility.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this 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 can’t force Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives the sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House. 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 that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted – by present facts – of utter incompetence and irresponsibility. There is not one 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 us, 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 took 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 (us). Provided that we voters have the gumption to manage our own employees, we should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
~This article was created from an e-mail that is “making the rounds” right now and we certainly can’t disagree with it. The author is unknown, but applauded for his words.