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.
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 a president 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? 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.
However, it is all OUR fault that we have allowed those 545
to do as they have!
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