545 People .

By Charlie Reese a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper writes:

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.

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?

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, 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 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

THE SPEECH THAT GOT KENNEDY ASSASINATED!

The Washington Mafia

Written By TL Thomson

WASHINGTON, DC - Contemporary Articles Defining Congressional Legislation (Legislation Translated into Constitutional Articles that Established and Maintain our Congressional Mafia)

Article 8
Congress shall assure for itself a free medical program that guarantees the highest quality of medical and dental care; salaries for all federal legislators equal to at least ten times the minimum wage for citizens; golden parachutes rising to millions of dollars upon retirement; exemption from social security taxes; and retirement for made members after only five years in office.

Article 9
In order to maintain an underclass of citizenry that must rely on government for survival–and therefore our national legislature–Congress shall establish a subsistence-level minimum wage inadequate to meet rent and mortgage payments; defray for medical /dental needs; or meet any other social needs beyond subsistence food and slum housing.

Article 10
Campaign finance reform shall be repeatedly ricocheted between the House and Senate and assured of never passing by rejection by either body, or killed in conference committee to render appearances of being supported by both federal legislative bodies.

Article 11
Personal checks written against insufficient funds shall be honored by in-house banks for both Senate and House members without the imposition of civil or criminal liabilities.

Article 12
Political contributions to members of Congress by special interests, notably corporations, shall not be limited in frequency or amount in order to maintain repeated re-(s)election of incumbents.

Article 13
Senators and Congressman shall attire in business suits costing not less than ten times the price of pedestrian attire in order to maintain the powerful image established by the Mafia Icon John Gotti.

Article 14
Regardless of its failure, the free trade ideology of NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO shall not be altered by Congressional legislation of any description, lest such lawmaking render impotent special-interest campaign financing. The health and welfare of the average citizen and his ability to earn an above subsistence level income shall not sway Congress to entertain the legislation herein described; nor shall recessions or depressions of our national economy be an influence on sustaining our failed free-trade policies.

Article 15
Congress shall assure the continuing flow of United States manufacturers to offshore locations in order to impoverish the average worker and assure a growing third-world status of American families. Congress shall guarantee the offshore flow of manufacturers through the continuing establishment and maintenance of federal programs similar to AID—Aid to Industrial Nations—and OPIC—Overseas Private Investment Corporation; plus granting tax breaks and other taxpayer financed programs to encourage United States companies to relocate offshore.

Article 16
Legislation for federal income-tax filing shall be cumbersome and obscure and favor sufficient loopholes for corporations and the wealthy. Congressional caterwauling shall be exercised by both legislative bodies to render the appearance of tax reform.

Article 17
Legislation oblivious to the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, to wit—No person shall be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law—shall not be invoked in considering the elimination of civil rights, such as the egregious and previously legislated forfeiture laws wherein a person’s money and property can be confiscated under the color of authority with0ut any probable cause related to the owner.

Article 18
In order to maintain a constant and inexhaustible flow of largesse from special interests, Congress shall ignore its responsibility to coin money as defined in Article 1, Section 8, of our Constitution; the Federal Reserve System—which shall maintain (a) its private status without taxation or Congressional examination, (b) accumulate no reserves, and (c) continue its status as a cartel controlled by European central banks, shall privately print currency and create money at will while collecting earnest money—in the form of interest—produced by the federal taxation of labor.

Article 19
The Senate shall approve only those persons nominated to the United States Supreme Court that adhere only to those principles established by the Democrat and Republican Mafia.

Article 20
No legislator, either Congressman or Senator, shall bow to the will of the electorate when such adherence and recognition of the will of the people runs counter to the will of special interests represented by the federal legislature.

Article 21
In order to maintain an appearance of legislative propriety, legislators shall forego the Mafia principles of cheek kissing and finger blood letting for new members by referring to made members as “the distinguished gentleman from (state); my distinguished and honorable colleague(s) from (state)” and other high-sounding appellations that establish respect for Congressional Mobsters.

Article 22
Congress shall integrate holidays honoring our Forefathers and establish references thereto in generic terms. Obliteration of American history and recognition of America’s Heroes by name shall be prohibited in order to facilitate our nation’s acceptance of the globalist agenda and eradication of the nation-state.

Article 23
Anti-trust laws that impede the formation of corporate monopolies shall be ignored and fresh legislation encouraging domestic economic competition is prohibited. In keeping with the globalist agenda, the axiom “The Divine Right of Kings shall be replaced with The Divine Right of Corporations” shall be the guiding principle for all economic legislation.

Article 24
Congress shall pass legislation transferring command of our military from the states and federal government over to command by foreign officers designated by the United Nations in a small piece-by-piece manner so as not to come to the attention of the general public or threaten the globalist agenda.

Article 25
The subtle erosion of Articles 1 and 2 of our Constitution—religion, speech, press, assembly, petition for grievances, and the right of individuals to keep and bear arms—shall be subtly eroded into non-existence by surreptitious and ongoing Congressional legislation.

Article 26
The subtle erosion of Articles 1 and 2 of our Constitution—religion, speech, press, assembly, petition for grievances, and the right of individuals to keep and bear arms-—shall be assured by the Senate in exercising its diligence when approving supreme court jurors favoring the globalist agenda.

Article 27
In order to maintain below subsistence level wages for American labor, the free flow of illegal immigration from third world nations shall be maintained using repeated amnesty legislation under the guise that US borders will be closed to unchecked entry through our porous borders.

Article 28
Attorneys shall proliferate in all three branches of government—legislative, executive, and judicial—in order to sustain their stranglehold on the united states federal government, thereby assuring lawyers their exclusive membership in the congressional mafia for personal enrichment. Legislation restricting attorneys mainly to the judicial branch of government—as envisioned by our Forefathers—is prohibited.

Article 29
Congress shall assure the public’s impression of living in a representative democracy by exercising its loyalty to only one political party disguised as two parties—the Republican and Democratic Mafias (known to the public as “parties”)—which shall conduct conventions with hoopla, fanfare, stomping, pseudo caterwauling, ballooning and confetti displays of gargantuan proportions, having preselected all candidates in closed and secret session dictated by America’s corporate elite and the Congressional Mafia.