I have learned more this election about how the government works than I learned in any other election. Maybe I have taken more of an interest in it this time around.
I got this email yesterday and it sums up alot I think. Everyone always blames the president for every little problem. I think congress controls the government..not the president. I am not a Bush fan by any means. I was..but the last couple of years he has done a pretty poor job. I think its a good thing he was in office when we were attacked. I think he did a pretty dam good job securing our country. We haven't had another attack. Could Gore have done it? I have my doubts but I don't know. We will never know. Check out this email..makes one think about how our government really works.
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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 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 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 game 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? 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 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!
Who is controlling the
Congress at this time??
Charlie Reese is a
formercolumnist of the
Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
However, it is also true the we, the
citizens of this country, reelect approximately 90% of the 545 every election.
Therefore, we bear a great deal of the responsibility for the mess we have
created
.........
***Tanya***
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