545 People Responsible For America's Woes

545 People Responsible for America's Woes
by Charley Reese
Seriously, Just 545?
No one can reasonably hold Government, an abstract, accountable for anything. To
misquote a Leftist politico: it's people, stupid. People operating within "the system"
are the root cause of our troubles. That said, we cannot accept the premise that just
545 people are at fault. Singling out one group for excoriation does the country,
another abstract, a disservice. Millions upon millions of people share the blame and
the shame for our woes. In fact, few, if any, of us (including the dead and living;
including Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians; including the wealthy, the
middle class, and the poor; including the religious and the secular) are free of the
onus of our part in what has become of the United States.
The worse people, whether in the public sector or the private sector, value ideologies
and agendas; they place greater store in power, privilege and prestige, than in life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Caring nothing for perfecting the Union, they
promote dysfunction by acts of commission or omission. Caring nothing for
establishing Justice for all, they promote justice for specific groups that suit their
purposes and special interests. Caring nothing for insuring domestic Tranquility,
they promulgate division by race, national origin, creed, gender, class and social
standing, and by whatever means necessary. Caring nothing for providing for the
common defense, they weaken it, while strengthening those who would harm us.
Caring nothing for promoting the general Welfare, they promote their wants and
needs, their ideology, their agendas, regardless of the costs to others. Caring nothing
for securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, they secure their
own. Caring nothing for inalienable rights other than their own, they strive to deny
rights to those who oppose them.
And those who do nothing to oppose them, in or out of government, are the worst of
us all.
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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.
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 ALONE 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. (and all
should be convicted of dereliction of duty as defined by their oath of office, and in some
cases outright treason.)
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. The election is not that far
away!
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