Today, I am making two posts, this is one of two:
The following article was sent to me by The Most Rev. Karl J. Barwin, the Metropolitan Primate of the Evangelical Catholic Church.
“545 People” by Charlie Reese
A poignant, trenchant and pungently accurate article:
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 still have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we still have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal Budget, the U.S. 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 illegally delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I have also excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no legal ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.
It makes no difference to me if they offer a politician one million dollars I cash, it is the politician who ultimately 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 co-operate in this common con / scam regardless of political 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 Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 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? He/She is the leader of the majority political party. He/She, along with 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 citizens 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 military is in
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.
This is post two of two:
Charlton Heston: “Moses has passed away”
May his memory remain eternal.
Charlton Heston was born John Charles Carter in
In 1944, Heston enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two years as a B-25 radio operator/gunner stationed in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands with the Eleventh Air Force, rising to the rank of Staff Sergeant. Also in 1944, Heston married Northwestern student Lydia Marie Clarke.
After the war, the two lived in Hell’s Kitchen,
Heston became deeply involved in politics, beginning around 1956, at which time he was Democrat. In the 1980’s he switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. Heston opposed abortion and gave the introduction to a 1987 pro-life documentary by Bernard Nathanson called Eclipse of Reason which focuses on late-term abortions. Heston served on the Advisory Board of Accuracy in Media, a conservative media watchdog group founded by Reed Irvin.
In an address to students at
In August 2002, Heston publicly announced he was diagnosed with symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s disease. In March 2005, various newspapers reported family and friends were apparently shocked by the rapid progression of his illness, and he was sometimes unable to get out of bed. Heston died on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at his home in
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