To the Faint of Heart -- You're in the Army Now

545 People By Charlie Reese -- (see below)

Let's be honest and take this on down the chain.

The 545 politicians get validation from ELECTED and APPOINTED party officials. So, it is no longer 545. The number of petty politicians is much, much larger. It's you, the elected precinct committeeman or committeewoman. It's you, caucus delegates.

You are the politicians, just like all the rest.

The party functionaries at the national, state and county levels are focused on the name attached to the politician's title -- and all these titles exist in America:

(america first, american, american independent, american nazi, american patriot, american reform, american socialist, christian falangist, communist, constitution, constitutionalist, democratic socialist, family values, freedom socialist/radical women, green, the greens, independence, independent american labor, libertarian, libertarian-national/socialist-green, light, moderate, multicapitalist, national socialist movement, natural law, new, new union, pansexual peace, peace and freedom, pot, progressive labor, prohibition, reform, revolution, revolutionary communist, social democrats, socialism and liberation, socialist, socialist action, socialist equality, socialist labor, socialist workers, third, marijuana, pacifist, veterans, we the people, workers, workers world, world socialist).

"Unity for victory," the people's legions say. "Leave them and join us," others say.

With the parties' support, the 545 can claim to have the people's support -- and they do, by implicit consent -- for it is the consent of the self-dividing governed that is the reality here, not the power of the politician.

The party functionaries speak to the media and tell them what the people believe so that the people can talk to themselves through the media in an unholy, but high-tech, form of schizophrenia that
absolves them of conscious responsibility.

The media tell the people what they were told the parties said the people believe -- and they can hide their hidden marching orders from those who have the money to pay for the technology, the human resources, the bandwidth and the access they must have to survive.

The people believe, you can watch them believe, in a system. They vote -- or don't vote -- because it is easier to believe in and rely on a system than it is to think, participate and struggle. They pray to the system, complain to the system, point at the system and rely on what the system throws at them while they wait for a leader who will decide their true destiny or fate.

The people have the government and the country they deserve -- don't blame the politician -- because We the People are the politicians. Our deceit is as great as the politicians we despise.

I am a politician. I'm an elected official. I am a Precinct Committee Person. The buck stops here. That's what this is all about.

545 People By Charlie Reese -- (from the Beginning)

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. Congress either approves it or rejects 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!