Tea Parties explained and more
When I read it, and then re-read it, it put into words why the American people are fed up with the Federal government, and more to the point, explained clearly and concisely the philosophy behind the growing grass roots movement from which came the Tax Day Tea Parties. The American people are becoming increasingly disgruntled with out of control government and the lunacy of the spending that Congress is authorizing right now. The debt is out of control, government is growing by leaps and bounds with a new "Czar" of something or another being appointed every week while the little guy - you and me - is taking in it the shorts.
I guess this piece re-affirms my core conservative values, and expresses much better than I could the growing frustration of the American people with our government (both parties) today. Give it a read. I have cleaned it up as best as I could and saved it in Word format if anyone wants a copy.
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.He has been a journalist for 49 years.
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you.
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