- Nixon declared War on Drugs in the 1960s but forty some years later we are no closer to taming addiction and getting drug abuse and trafficking under control today than we were in the 1960s.
- Carter muddled the energy crises in the 1970s but thirty some years later we are no closer having an effective national energy strategy.
- Reagan identified the failures of public education in this country in the 1980s ("A Nation At Risk") but twenty some years later public education is still pretty much a disaster.
- Clinton presided over numerous terrorist attacks (first World Trade Center Bombing, U.S.S. Cole attack, African Embassy bombings) but the political class never came up with an effective and Constitutional friendly anti-terrorist strategy.
Nothing has improved in the past forty years in the major areas that concern American citizens despite both the Democrats and Republicans controlling the White House and Congressional chambers at various times. My hope is that term limits would be one step that would start to change the status quo but the following essay but Mr.Charlie Reese has another solution: vote them out of office. It is my understanding that Mr. Reese is a long time journalist with the Orlando Sentinel and now writes online articles. I have tried to contact Mr. Reese but have not been successful, I hope he does not mind that I repeat his thoughts below.
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 and 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!
Kudos Mr. Reese, he understands that all politicians are the same regardless of what political party they belong to. They need the status quo to continue for their benefit, not for the good of the country. Please consider Mr. Reese's advice: regardless of party, vote all incumbents out of office in November. How much worse could it be with new people sitting in Washington? The current crop of politicians have not solved any problems for forty years and will probably go another forty years with nothing being accomplished if we do not vote the incumbents out now!
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