Who did you vote for?

[Blade]

545 PEOPLE 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, 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 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 APPOINTED, but Congress-approved, 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 their party affiliation, and it is very self-serving on their part.

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 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 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 representatives and they alone, are responsible.

Those 545 representatives and they alone, have the power.

Those 545 representatives 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!


What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you appear to have several choices, just like the 545 do.


1. You can send this to everyone in your address book, and hope THEY do something about it.


2. You can agree to vote against everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process with take 4-6 years.


3. You can decide to RUN FOR OFFICE yourself and agree to do the job properly for EVERYONE you represent, whether they voted for you or not and whether they are registered for the same party or not.


4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current rotten bunch so they can keep rotting the new ones too.


5. YOU DECIDE, BUT AT LEAST SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, MAYBE SOMEONE IN THERE WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

[Low&Slow]

HE HE HE. I just wanted to get my foot in the door.

[Uncle B]

Old Butch

John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets', and ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs.

The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.

The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

But to Farmer John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result...The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

Vote carefully this year...the bells are not always audible

[omegajim]

never understood the deficit thing either.

both sides are opposed, but it still happens.

[inspiron]

The deficit is easy to understand. Think of it like this - you're in charge of a huge pot of money. Keep in mind - it's not YOUR money, but you're in charge of spending it. If you spend more than was in the pot, that's a deficit. It's no problem to spend more than you have, because, hey, it's not your money.

[JmalB]

You taking over Sgt Mike's spot?

[inspiron]

We're just burning time until ER shows up. Then we'll lock this thread.

[busa-boy33]

before the thread is locked I just wanna say hello to my family back home.. HUZZAH!!
and say to respect the tree's and stop polluting the planet and.. and.. yeah.. whooohooo!!! YEAH!!!
(moons the camera and runs away..) WOOOOOHOOOOO!!

[tricker]

*patiently waiting for ER to show up....*

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by inspiron

We're just burning time until ER shows up. Then we'll lock this thread.

I'm here.

I really got no problem with this thread; it's not political, it's ANTI-political.

So, unless and until someone chimes in with some utterly stupid comment like, "everybody who thinks like that is obviously a (Nazi, Commie, Liberal, Neo-Con, etc.--pick one) nut case...........it's OK by me.

[tricker]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

So, unless and until someone chimes in with some utterly stupid comment like, "everybody who thinks like that is obviously a (Nazi, Commie, Liberal, Neo-Con, etc.--pick one) nut case...........it's OK by me.

can be arranged if necessary...

[omegajim]

so what's the eu stance on deficit, and is Germany in compliance?

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by tricker

can be arranged if necessary...

Of that I have ABSOLUTELY no doubt!

[frostbitevinnie]

Y'all are a bunch of pinko commies!!

There ya have it. Carry on.

[Mavman]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

I really got no problem with this thread; it's not political, it's ANTI-political.

[frostbitevinnie]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

I really got no problem with this thread; it's not political, it's ANTI-political. :

I'm cornfused. Wouldn't anti political still be political? Active opposition as opposed to active precipitation or are you expressing your dissent or non agreement with politics. Still a political view IMO.

I still say y'all are a bunch of pinko commies. NEXT!!

[Low&Slow]

Originally Posted by frostbitevinnie

I'm cornfused. Wouldn't anti political still be political? Active opposition as opposed to active precipitation or are you expressing your dissent or non agreement with politics. Still a political view IMO.

I still say y'all are a bunch of pinko commies. NEXT!!

I'm glad you asked that question Vin, I thought it was just me.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by Low&Slow

I'm glad you asked that question Vin, I thought it was just me.

If you were a pinko commie, you would understand !!!

[Low&Slow]

Comrade Karl
I have infiltrated a group of American bike enthusiast, they have been lulled into a false sense of security, soon they will all be party members.

P.S. The vodka here sucks.

[omegajim]

spell Amerikan correctly comrade.

There are many grade of wodka awailable provide one look for different grade.

it sounds better when I speak it.