[GMAN]

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 49 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 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 poli! tician f rom 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.

Pass it on!

[TimberWolf]

Bravo......
I agree completley hence why I am disenfranchised...

Timberwolf

[Biscuit Lips]

I was just wondering something. Do you guys think the government of the United States could be overthrown, at this point and time, by the citizens of this great country? Is it to late? I know this would never happen in my lifetime, but just sort of a "what if" type thing.

[TimberWolf]

Thats a good question Biscuit lips, I don't think it could happen in this day and age, another oxymoron here the government is to organized to allow a take over, yet they can't figure out financial dealings for the life of them. To stupid to realize a hammer can be bought at a local hardware store for $25 but instead they spend $2000 on it because it has a special handle made out of wood....

Really blows my mind try to take over our country and they would sqaush you in a heart beat. sell them a $2000 hammer and you are their vendor of choice....

Go figure...

timberwolf

[matcat]

Originally Posted by TimberWolf

Thats a good question Biscuit lips, I don't think it could happen in this day and age, another oxymoron here the government is to organized to allow a take over, yet they can't figure out financial dealings for the life of them. To stupid to realize a hammer can be bought at a local hardware store for $25 but instead they spend $2000 on it because it has a special handle made out of wood....

Really blows my mind try to take over our country and they would sqaush you in a heart beat. sell them a $2000 hammer and you are their vendor of choice....

Go figure...

timberwolf

Wow, I should go into the hammer business .


Overthrowing a government is not an easy task. But it can be done. Force would be near impossible, but look how hitler took over Germany. He didn't do it by force (He did try, and got a nice prison term for it), so instead he worked his way up the political ranks and took it over from the inside.


I think America is passed the point of new return, the democratic system as it was originially designed is gone.

[GMAN]

Originally Posted by Biscuit Lips

I was just wondering something. Do you guys think the government of the United States could be overthrown, at this point and time, by the citizens of this great country? Is it to late? I know this would never happen in my lifetime, but just sort of a "what if" type thing.

I think an armed conflict might not be something that would happen in this country, at least just yet. But I do think people are fed up. They are fed up with career politicians who are selling their souls for our money. They are fed up with all the wasteful spending. They are fed up with high taxes. They are also fed up with an over zealous and intrusive government. I heard on the news this morning that people marched in more than 150 cities across the country holding signs about taxes and another "Tea Pary." Funny that nothing was mentioned on NBC this morning.

I think that people can be pushed to the point that they will fight. The best way to over throw the government is to throw all of them out of office. If this government continues on it's current path we could see a couedeta. Those in government want to push through their agenda before any of us know what has happened. I think that people will use speech and signage first. If that doesn't effect change then the situation could escalate. There are a few states that have been discussing secession. Looking back at history secession is how the first Civil War began.

[matcat]

Originally Posted by GMAN

I think an armed conflict might not be something that would happen in this country, at least just yet. But I do think people are fed up. They are fed up with career politicians who are selling their souls for our money. They are fed up with all the wasteful spending. They are fed up with high taxes. They are also fed up with an over zealous and intrusive government. I heard on the news this morning that people marched in more than 150 cities across the country holding signs about taxes and another "Tea Pary." Funny that nothing was mentioned on NBC this morning.

I think that people can be pushed to the point that they will fight. The best way to over throw the government is to throw all of them out of office. If this government continues on it's current path we could see a couedeta. Those in government want to push through their agenda before any of us know what has happened. I think that people will use speech and signage first. If that doesn't effect change then the situation could escalate. There are a few states that have been discussing cession. Looking back at history cession is how the first Civil War began.

By cessasion you mean pulling out of the union?
hey maybe the south will rise again!

[VitoCorleone99]

Originally Posted by GMAN

Those in government want to push through their agenda before any of us know what has happened...

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." ~ Rahm Emanuel, 2008 AD

"In taking a state the conqueror must arrange to commit all his cruelties at once, so as not to have to recur to them every day, and so as to be able, by not making fresh changes, to reassure people and win them over by benefiting them. Whoever acts otherwise, either through timidity or bad counsels, is always obliged to stand with knife in hand, and can never depend on his subjects, because they, owing to continually fresh injuries are unable to depend on him. For injuries should be done all together, so that being less tasted, they will give less offense. Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed." ~ Machiavelli, 1532 AD

Does anyone think that they would be able to pass this agenda piece by piece over the course of two years? The Republicans, a party largely run by incompetents, fat and happy with corruption, have pulled to a statistical tie with Democrats in generic ballot polls for the first time in years. The president's approval numbers are below those of most other presidents this early in their tenures, with his support coming mainly from partisan Democrats. The clock is ticking. It has to get passed now. Then, once the memory of the numerous screwjobs has begun to fade, they can trickle out news of the "recovery" little by little.

Sure your electric bill has doubled, your kids' school no longer answers to you, you're paying for your neighbor's mortgage, the Russians are re-arming while military spending is the only thing that we're willing to cut, the national debt has tripled, and you're waiting three months to see a heart specialist under our new health insurance system. So what? That's old news! 2009 is so last year! Get with the program! Didn't you ("95% of working families") enjoy the extra $8 on your paycheck this week?

It's actually a smart strategy as long as they can get away with it.

[GMAN]

Originally Posted by matcat

By cessasion you mean pulling out of the union?
hey maybe the south will rise again!

Yes, that is correct. When a state secedes they remove themselves from the union. The original states were essentially a groups of independent states that formed a union not unlike that of the EU today. I think the South had the right idea of getting away from an oppressive centralized government.

[TimberWolf]

Originally Posted by GMAN

I think the South had the right idea of getting away from an oppressive centralized government.

That statement is an oxymoron Gman "get away from an oppressive government" while at the same time oppresing other human beings, are you kidding me????? What is up with you these days you seem to harbor a lot of anger/ resentment of late.

If only they had the proper equiptment to do their jobs, then maybe they would have won... NOT
Good will always win over evil in the long run, and the South steping away from the rest of the American states was done for the wrong reasons, So they could own slaves to build their riches on like the Middletons Of Charleston, S.C. Thats got to be something to be proud of....

Timberwolf