- Politicians are the only people in the world who create
problems and then campaign against them.
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- Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the
Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
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- Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against
inflation and high taxes, WHY do 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 Representatives 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 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.
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- 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.
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- I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for
a sound reason.
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- 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.
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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 propose a budget. 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. 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.
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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. 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.
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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 Army & 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. There are no insoluble government problems.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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