A message from Charley Reese

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT
WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE.
READ IT AND WEEP.
AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT
POLITICAL DEBACLE.

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49
years. He wrote this:

THE 545 PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICA'S WOES BY
CHARLEY 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 v ote 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
pol itician 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.

A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY 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
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 G.W.
BUSH 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 Democrats, not the
president, can approve any budget they want. If the
president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto.

REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS 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, from an unfair tax code
to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly
to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain
truth that 545 people exercise 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. 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 t ake this
power. Above all, do
not let them con you into the belief that there
exist 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.

- I must agree.