545 PEOPLE -- By Charlie Reese

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 more than 50 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, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court

justices equates to 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 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.

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.

What you do with this article now that you have read it... Is up to you.

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Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax

Telephone Federal, State, and Local Surcharge Taxes

Gasoline Tax (current national average is 45.9 cents per gallon)

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the

most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the

world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the world (word changed) happened? Can you spell 'politicians? ' I hope this

goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!!

YOU can help it get there!!!

GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!