HAVE YOU WONDERED

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then
>> campaign against them.
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>> Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are
>> against deficits, we have deficits?
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>> Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation
>> and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
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>> You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
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>> You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on
>> appropriations. The House of Re presentatives does.
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>> You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
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>> You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
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>> You and I don't control monetary policy, The Federal Reserve Bank does.
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>> 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.
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>> I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem
>> was created by the Congress.
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>> In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound
>> currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
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>> I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
>> ; They have no legal authority.
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>> They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to
>> do one cotton-picking thing.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> The president can only p ropose a budget.
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>> He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
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>> 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.
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>> Who is the speaker of the House?
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>> She is the leader of the majority party.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly
>> to thos e 545 people.
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>> 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.
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>> If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
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>> If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
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>> If the Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.
>>
>>
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>> 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.
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>> 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 reg ulators, 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.
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>> They, and they alone, have the power.
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>> 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.
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>> We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
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>> Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper