Food for thought

[kip Foss]

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 do not propose a federal budget.
The president does.

You and I do not have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.
The House of Representatives does.

You and I do not write the tax code.
Congress does.

You and I do not set fiscal policy.
Congress does.

You and I do not 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 do not 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.

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 take 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.

VOTE EVERY ONE OF THEM OUT.

[Dee8go]

Yeah, but who would we get to take their places? No one with the kind of moral and ethical substance to do the job right would be willing to take the job.

[WVOtoGO]

except you, me and mistress.

Let's give it a go !!

[Botnst]

I have a suspicion that we could choose 545 random people who are over 30 and graduated from an accredited high school and do no worse than what we have now.

If the randomly selected group are all college educated it might be worse because college teaches you that there is nothing you cannot figure out. That's hubris.

B

[Skippy]

The problem is that we, the electorate, are a bunch of idiots.

[wbain5280]

That's the way it is in a Republic. Vote them out anyway.

BTW, the President may propose a budget, but all spending bills originate in the House of Representatives. Blame them.