The Texas 18th District Blog

545 PEOPLE By Charlie Reese

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

 I could not have said this any better!
WE can do something.
YOU can vote for John Faulk and help defeat Sheila Jackson Lee!

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 we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, 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 – 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 milli on 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 & 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 lobbyis ts,
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 agains t” 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.

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U. S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland chastises Sheila Jackson Lee

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I could not have said this better! 

You know you are having a bad day in Congress when your Gentleman “friend”  take direct aim at one of the other members!!

Published Thursday, May 29, 2008

Westmoreland regrets use of veterans as ‘political pawns’
By Winston Skinner

The Times-Herald

There are a lot of gray heads at the meetings of White Oak Golden K, and when U. S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland asked how many men in the audience were veterans, dozens of hands went up.

About 70 people attended the club’s meeting Thursday at the Special Events Center. Westmoreland said he regrets the way veterans have come to be used in political banter in Washington.

“It’s a shame that veterans have become political pawns,” he said. “That’s what we’ve come to today. It’s not what the founding fathers had in mind.”

Westmoreland complimented White Oak Golden K member Harold Barron on his leading the club in singing “God Bless America” after the pledge to the flag.

Westmoreland said that too often “how God has blessed America” has been forgotten. He said God has been “very merciful” toward the United States and that God needs to be “put back in” public life, not removed from it.

Westmoreland expressed regrets that he never finished college, though he did attend for two years. It is common sense, however, and not education that is in short supply in Washington, according to the Grantville Republican.

“We don’t have a lot of common sense in our government,” he stated. “One thing I’ve found out being in Congress, you don’t have to be that smart to be up there.”

Westmoreland was critical of Sheila Jackson-Lee, a Texas Democrat who holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Virginia Law School. He said Jackson-Lee speaks frequently from the well of the House.

“I don’t care what it is, she will speak about it,” he said. “You can have more education than you can use.”

Westmoreland questioned a system in which people spend $10 million to run for a two-year House seat that will pay $160,000 per year.

He said that when America was being formed, leaders such as John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were “actually recruited by their neighbors” to serve in Congress. Although many of those early patriots would have preferred to stay at home, they served.

He said many public officials today have become “Vegematic” candidates. He referred to the commercials for the Vegematic kitchen gadget of decades past, stating it worked perfectly on TV but not at home. Westmoreland said the actor in the Vegematic commercial was told where to stand, what to do and what to say.

“We have hired media people to do that, to make our politicians into a product. The difference is the Vegematic had a 30-day guarantee,” he said. Westmoreland suggested voters too often find the person they elected is “not really the same product” they thought they were getting.

“We can blame the politicians for being bad all we want, but we’re the ones who elected them,” Westmoreland said. “The American people need to be careful.”

He urged the Golden K members to share with their children and grandchildren what America is about and their own life experiences. “A lot of kids don’t know the kind of heritage this nation has,” he said.

While America has lots of problems, it also has the greatest government in the world, he said, and one that offers its people “the opportunity to go out and do something” about issues that concern them.

Westmoreland said he believes Americans would fight a foreign power that sought to destroy the country. “Our enemies right now are really within,” he said. “If something does happen to this country, it will come from within, not the outside.”

What are your thoughts?

John Faulk

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