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545 vs. 300,000,000 People - by Charlie ReeseCharley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel.
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.
Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.
This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!
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.
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The Simple Truth
Friday, June 17, 2011
(Faxed to 60 members of Congress, and the President,
with a copy for the Attorney General)
Joseph Stedman, Ph.D. February 15-28, 2011
The latest reason given for printing money and redeeming long-term U.S. Government Bonds, which makes little sense, is to help states balance their budgets, as twenty of them are in or near bankruptcy. How can a cheaper dollar help them, other than to keep their governments working? Perhaps, printing and putting the cheaper dollars back in the hands of bond holders, might encourage them to buy bonds to fund state and local job-creation projects. Yet, we got into this mess with smoke and mirrors and it seems the Fed Chairman’s schemes to get us out of the mess are just more smoke and mirrors. In fact, we need to focus on fiscal policy and stop trying to stimulate the economy and create inflation with monetary policy, because leaving interest rates and taxes too low for too long, is counterproductive to a sound economy and a sound dollar in a world of free trade, especially when a country is more a consumer (import), than producer (export) nation. What kept us in the great world depression for too long was “beggar thy neighbor policies” that we are now using against other nations and our own citizens. We must get back to basics.
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COMMENTARY
July 07, 2011
545 vs. 300,000,000 People -
by Charlie Reese
June 17, 2011
The Simple Truth
December 2010 - Security and Economics
April 21, 2011
Simple, Efficient, Fair -
By Congressman Joe Pitts
October 22, 2010
The Tea Party and Other Questions for
Traditional Conservative Independents
SERVICES
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Government
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QUOTES/EVENTS
May 30, 2011
There are two ways to enslave a nation.
One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
- Pres. John Adams
June 10, 2011
“Troubles are often the tools by which
God fashions us for better things."
- Henry Ward Beecher
Dogmatic ideology is a poor
substitute for reason.
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