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Deborah K
07-14-2009, 01:04 PM
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

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? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She 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 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 , 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 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!

Charlie Reese former columnist of the OrlandoSentinel Newspaper

Deborah K
07-15-2009, 12:11 PM
please read this

Anti Federalist
07-15-2009, 12:35 PM
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 , it's because they want them in IRAQ

If your liberties are being stripped away it's because they want them to be.

If the whole nation is under surveillance it's because they want it to be.

And if they rig the game so you can't vote them out of office it's because they want it that way.

Oyate
07-15-2009, 12:39 PM
well hello there Deb!

Deborah K
07-15-2009, 12:42 PM
well hello there Deb!

Hey you! I returned your call and you never called back! How's it going?

Oyate
07-15-2009, 01:31 PM
Hey you! I returned your call and you never called back! How's it going?

I must have missed that. Things aren't going too poorly. I was able to run up and catch Maresco when he came through which was nice. Hope all's well with y'all.

LibertyEagle
07-15-2009, 01:37 PM
Have a link please, Deb?

Deborah K
07-15-2009, 01:47 PM
LE I received it in an email. But here's what I found:


An article written by Charley Reese for the Orlando Sentinel newspaper on March 7, 1985[7] titled "The 545 People Responsible for America's Woes" was widely read and distributed via e-mail during 2008 United States presidential campaign. Note: The original column was actually published in the Orlando Sentinel on March 7, 1995 and was titled, "Looking For Someone To Blame? Congress Is Good Place To Start".[8] The article commonly forwarded in 2008 was slightly modified from the 1980s version substituting Pelosi for Tip O'Neil and adding Iraq. It is not clear if the modifications were made by Reese as the e-mail claimed. Quote from the original article circa 1985: "One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country." Unquote.[9][10] He wrote a similar article in 1983 listing 546 people and included the Vice President in that article.[11]

At the end of each calendar year, Reese wrote his annual 'conflict of interest' column, in which he disclosed his sources of income, his political affiliation and the organizations of which he was a dues paying member. He would also state his basic political philosophy and other core beliefs in addition to purpose of his columns.[12][13] He stated that readers should have an idea where a columnist is coming from and where any potential conflicts of interest could arise, but to his knowledge he was the only columnist that carried out this practice.[citation needed]


Charley Reese is a conservative, with many libertarian views, but has written explaining why he is not a libertarian[1] and has been critical of the existence of third parties.[citation needed] Nonetheless he contributes regularly to libertarian websites such as LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com. He is currently a registered Democrat, but has been previously a Republican as well. In his December 26, 2005 column he writes he was a Democrat but went Republican after JFK got in office; he thought JFK was a lousy president and his harshest presidential criticisms are reserved for Jimmy Carter. After the presidency of George H. W. Bush (1989-1993), he returned to the Democratic Party, citing that the senior Bush brought the 'Rockefeller Wing' into control of the GOP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Reese

And here is the original article:

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/woes.htm

Deborah K
07-15-2009, 01:51 PM
Here's an excerpt from his article: How to control people:


It's possible to be a Ph.D., doctor, lawyer, businessman, journalist, or
an accountant, just to name a few examples, and at the same time be an
uneducated person. The difference between true education and vocational
training has been cleverly blurred in our time so that we have people
successfully practicing their vocations while at the same time being
totally ignorant of the larger issues of the world in which they live.

Boy, ain't it the truth!

Deborah K
07-15-2009, 01:52 PM
Here's the whole article:

HOW TO CONTROL PEOPLE
Monday, 08-Jan-01 01:21:59
24.14.28.77 writes:

HOW TO CONTROL PEOPLE
by Charley Reese
http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html

The difference between true education and vocational training has been
cleverly blurred. Here are a few tips on how smart people can control
other people. If any of this rings a bell - Well, then wake up!

The first principle of people control is not to let them know you are
controlling them. If people knew, this knowledge will breed resentment
and possibly rebellion, which would then require brute force and terror,
and old fashioned, expensive and not 100 % certain method of control.

It is easier than you think to control people indirectly, to manipulate
them into thinking what you want them to think and doing what you want
them to do.

One basic technique is to keep them ignorant. Educated people are not as
easy to manipulate. Abolishing public education or restricting access to
education would be the direct approach. That would spill the beans. The
indirect approach is to control the education they receive.

It's possible to be a Ph.D., doctor, lawyer, businessman, journalist, or
an accountant, just to name a few examples, and at the same time be an
uneducated person. The difference between true education and vocational
training has been cleverly blurred in our time so that we have people
successfully practicing their vocations while at the same time being
totally ignorant of the larger issues of the world in which they live.

The most obvious symptom is their absence of original thought. Ask them
a question and they will end up reciting what someone else thinks or
thought the answer was. What do they think Well, they never thought about
it. Their education consisted of learning how to use the library and cite
sources.

That greatly simplifies things for the controller because with lots of
money, university endowments, foundations, grants, and ownership of
media, it is relatively easy to control who they will think of as
authorities to cite in lieu of doing their own thinking.

Another technique is to keep them entertained. Roman emperors did not
stage circuses and gladiator contests because they didn't have
television. We have television because we don't have circuses and
gladiator events. Either way, the purpose is to keep the people's minds
focused on entertainment, sports, and peripheral political issues. This
way you won't have to worry that they will ever figure out the real
issues that allow you to control them.

Just as a truly educated person is difficult to control, so too is an
economically independent person. Therefore, you want to create conditions
that will produce people who work for wages, since wage earners have
little control over their economic destiny. You'll also want to control
the monetary, credit, and banking systems. This will allow you to inflate
the currency and make it next to impossible for wage earners to
accumulate capital. You can also cause periodic deflation to collapse the
family businesses, family farms, and entrepreneurs, including independent
community banks.

To keep trade unions under control, you just promote a scheme that
allows you to shift production jobs out of the country and bring back the
products as imports (it is called free trade). This way you will end up
with no unions or docile unions.

Another technique is to buy both political parties so that after a while
people will feel that no matter whether they vote for Candidate A or
Candidate B, they will get the same policies. This will create great
apathy and a belief that the political process is useless for effecting
real change.

Pretty soon you will have a population that feels completely helpless,
and thinks the bad things happening to them are nobody in particular's
fault, just a result of global forces or evolution or some other
disembodied abstract concept. If necessary, you can offer scapegoats.

Then you can bleed them dry without having to worry overly much that one
of them will sneak into your house one night and cut your throat. If you
do it right, they won't even know whose throat they are cutting.

Charley Reese
E-mail: OSOreese@aol.com

Deborah K
07-15-2009, 01:55 PM
I must have missed that. Things aren't going too poorly. I was able to run up and catch Maresco when he came through which was nice. Hope all's well with y'all.


Hope he comes this way. Sure miss ya. We're hangin in there. I have two more grandbabies on the way! Yaaaaaaye!!! Both daughters will deliver at the end of Jan, beginning of Feb '10 God willing.

LibertyEagle
07-15-2009, 01:57 PM
Thanks, Deb. :) I wanted to post it somewhere and they're sticklers for the link.

Deborah K
07-15-2009, 01:59 PM
Thanks, Deb. :) I wanted to post it somewhere and they're sticklers for the link.

Welcome. :)

ronpaulhawaii
10-20-2009, 07:22 PM
bump

Deborah K
11-19-2009, 05:33 PM
Bump

1000-points-of-fright
11-19-2009, 06:23 PM
Minor point of order.... we don't vote for supreme court justices.

phill4paul
11-19-2009, 06:29 PM
If your liberties are being stripped away it's because they want them to be.

If the whole nation is under surveillance it's because they want it to be.

And if they rig the game so you can't vote them out of office it's because they want it that way.

Noted and added.

Nice post Deborah! I'm gonna tweak it a bit to my own ends but that columnist has done a good job.!

LibForestPaul
11-19-2009, 06:56 PM
Change they to both parties...then I'll send it. Otherwise, sounds like Dem bashing bs.