I tried to post this in one of the Mccain threads but with no luck.  My husband emailed this to me and I thought it was interesting

FYI
 

From  Charlie Reese, 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 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 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 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 is a former  columnist of the Orlando Sentinel  Newspaper.

 

What you do with this article now  that you have read it is up to you, though

you appear to have several  choices.

 

1. 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 will  take several years.

 

3. You can decide to run for  office yourself and agree to do the job  

properly.

 

4. Lastly, you can sit back  and do nothing, or re-elect the current  bunch.

 

YOU DECIDE, BUT AT LEAST SEND IT  ON.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, this was an interesting article. You are preaching to the choir. Totally agree, deb. WE, the people, should fire them all and start over with people that will have OUR interests in mind and NOT their own agendas!

Oh and there are alot of old farts...........both parties...........who if they were not elected officials, they might not make it in the real world at a job!  They just keep getting elected over decades!