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BLAME 545 PEOPLE - THEY ARE TO BLAME!
By fred | July 17, 2008
When I think back over the almost 79 years of my life I have to feel so blessed. I feel so sorry for those that do not have the warmth of close friends, friends that you have had for over half a century. They have stood the test of time, and a part of that makes me feel good also. Somehow as stupid as I can be, often bullheaded, maybe a bit selfish, they still think I am an O. K. also. Guess I have just been lucky to have so many buddies to share the years with.
I get this feeling in aces when a girl, well she is not a girl, a grown woman, the wife of a very dear friend from high school, football buddy, best man for my super brother in law Jack, fishing buddy for years - that unfortunately did not make it as long as the rest of us. Ray passed away a number of years ago.
When I fly down to Los Angeles each year to attend our old football guy luncheon and what is left of our old Poly High bunch (another luncheon) I usually see Alcene. I told Sally if I hadn’t had her and Alcene was available I damn well would have courted her. She is another love of my life, a calm, cool head, yet a loving mother and a sweetheart that stuck by her guy that had a rough go until it was over. Can’t ask any more from a woman than that.
This lady was the head clerk of one of the very large cities in Orange county Califorina, had dozens under her command running that city, an amazing lady.
O. K. get to it Uncle Fred –what are you wasting our time with this remembering old times stuff—anyway Alcene sent me the following article written by a guy named Charlie Reese, I have no idea who Charlie Reese is, some newspaper guy, and I doubt that my second love Alcene does either. But I am darn glad she sent it - shared if with us. If we want to place blame on the current sad condition of our nation we should justly place the blame where it belongs, yes, we should know who is to blame for this huge mess we are in.
Hey, it is not just the Republicans, it is also the Democrats, it is the lads in Washington, the whole bloody bunch of them. Read it, it makes me mad every time I read it. What the hell, give most any housewife of any family money and she will know how to spend it wisely, what we should do is throw all the jerks in Washington out and put 545 housewifes in. Another reason for letting the ladies run things– when a lady carries a new child for 9 months before it is born she knows what it means to lose a a young soldier, a marine, a sailor, she knows the heartache it will cause.
I am putting this under “Are we a nation of whimps!”
Read - Love ya all, Uncle Fred
545 PEOPLE by Charlie Reese
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper
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 APPOINTED, but
Congress-approved, 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 their party affiliation, and
it is very self-serving on their part.
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 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 cannot 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,< B> 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 representatives and they alone,
are responsible.
Those 545 representatives and they alone,
have the power.
Those 545 representatives 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 me ss!
What you do with this article now that you
have read it is up to you, though you appear
to have several choices, just like the 545 do.
. You can send this to everyone in your
address book, and hope THEY do something
about it.
2. You can agree to vote against everyone
that is currently in office, knowing that the
process with take 4-6 years.
3. You can decide to RUN FOR OFFICE
yourself and agree to do the job properly for
EVERYONE you represent, whether they
voted for you or not and whether they are
registered for the same party or not.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or
re-elect the current rotten bunch so they can
keep rotting the new ones too.
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