The Real Problem

This was posted by one of my High School classmates.



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 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.



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 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?

John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He 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 and Afghanistan it's because they

want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ....



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.

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Well put

Couldn't agree more.

We need a revolution to take our country back from those SOB's and put term limits on all elected a$$holes

-John

we could do without most of that 545 and NOBODY! would ever know it.

jjmstang wrote:We need a revolution to take our country back from those SOB's and put term limits on all elected a$$holes

-John

Harold & I were just discussing that Wednesday, and I think we both agreed

I am far from even wispering revolution, but it almost appears to be unevitable to get the jackwagons in D.C. to listen.

Is to put the 545 between the framerails!

but then I would be guilty of deficit spending right there!

best political post ever , puts the blame where it truely belongs .... on ALL of them

DanH wrote:best political post ever , puts the blame where it truely belongs .... on ALL of them

Don't call it that or Bruno will delete it

All they want to do is argue about the issues. Makes it look like they're actually doing something...

Didn't Rome have a problem like this?