From another site, please notice the last few sentences.
Those Responsible For America's Woes
so very true why don't we vote them all out???
Well written article. Election Day is nearing!
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then
campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the nnalert and the nnalert are
against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation
and high taxes, 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
Congress 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.
100 senators, 435 congressmen, 1 president and 9 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 but 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 individual Legislator's
responsibility to determine how he or she votes.
A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY
Don't you see the con game that is played on the people by the
politicians? 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
game 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 G.W. BUSH 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
appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party.
She and her fellow nnalert, not the president, can approve any budget
they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto.
REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS
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, from an unfair tax code to
defense overruns that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise 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
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 back that 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 have taken 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 people have the gumption to
manage their own employees.
This article was taken from the Orlando Sentinel Star newspaper.
Since the inception of our Constitution, Congress has always held the
purse strings of America.
The "devil" didn't force anyone of these 545 to make decisions, so he
can't be blamed either. On Election Day, we either give the 545 a
mirror with our votes, or we ourselves should look in a mirror for whom
to blame.
[b:b11fc568bc]Ultimately, it's you and me the voter who determines these things.
Winning a temporary political victory, only to see our nation destroyed,
is not very smart.[/b:b11fc568bc]
