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From: sandrouss77 <sandrouss77@...>Subject: Fw: RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!gogetyourknife@...Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 9:55 PM----- Original Message ----- From: "arthur cameron" <artstucam@...>

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> RE-ELECT NOBODY!Worthy of your time and attention

> regardless of your party affiliation. 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 why,if both the Democrats and the Republicans

> are against deficits, WHY do wehave deficits? Have you

> ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against

> inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have high 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. The vast

> majority I might add are lawyers. 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 they vote. 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 Army & Marines are in

> IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ. 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 youraddress 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

> TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, MAYBE SOMEONE IN THERE

> WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!. I am waiting for someone to

> start a nationwide movement for term limits, somewhat like

> California. That would solve a lot of our problems.

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