By: penguin

penguin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:28:26 +0000

545 People
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 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 or He is the
leader of the majority party. The speaker 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 can not replace 545
people who stand convicted – by present facts – of incompetence and
irresponsible. 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 no one else; 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!!!

By: gottanew

gottanew — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:23:39 +0000

I think it was Sen.Ev Dirkson who in the early 60′s said about congressional spending
A billion here , a billion there, before you know it we’re talking about real money
His solution was to let the Gov spend all they wanted but they had to count it out in single dollar bills.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:56:25 +0000

Awesome. You must be a tax advisor like me. Some of those taxes must be state level but most are federal. The only thing I can say is that all those taxes and the laws behind them have kept me employed for 30 years.
However, you are right. We americans are taxed to death. Death and taxes are the only things that are certain in this life.

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