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, WHY do we have deficits?
- Have you ever wondered why, 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.
- Members of the Federal Reserve Board were excluded 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.
- Also excluded are all of 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. It doesn't matter 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 they vote.
-Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you / me that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con 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? They (in this case - She) are 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 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 they do not pay or 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.

Sherman and Ziggy will suredly find fault with most of what was stated in the above.

HELL, ...... they have to ....... because the above voids all their excuses they post in support of their political party and/or politician.

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It seems inconceivable 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.

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office."- H.L. Mencken