Posted on 10/02/2008 11:42:46 AM PDT by Tolik
All credit for this thread is due to Tolik.
I do agree that the MSM still has not figured out that they are a dying creature.
OK, that's a reasonable answer to the 'what-next' question. Not a cure all but at least a step in the right direction.
This may be in the wrong place and a bit long but I wanted to share this e-mail I received with you all.
This is an article written by Charlie Reese, a former columnist for the
> Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
> Very interesting perspective on the state of our Nation!
>
> -——Original Message-——
>
> 545 PEOPLE
> By Charlie Reese
>
> 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 todetermine 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 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 thefederal 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!
>
> Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel
> Newspaper.
The democrats failure in 2005 isn’t an excuse to do the wrong thing for the country now. McCain voted for the bailout because you can’t ignore a liquidity crisis.
Bump.
In short, all the anger directed at “Wall Street” would be better and more deservedly focused at the “family” and “conscience” of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (as Franklin Raines called the Senate and House Rats protecting him in 2005).
Yes, the Wall Street bankers took advantage of the market created by Fannie and Freddie. To some extent, that is what they were supposed to do for their shareholders. But it was the enlargement of Freddie and Fannie’s role in the market-—IOW, it was the U.S. Government-—that directly caused this crisis.
There must be accountability.
Exactly.
McCain and Palin need to keep repeating:
The Democrats “socialized the risk and privatized the profit.”
Hey, first we have to get to the point where most Americans understand even the general outlines of what happened in 2005. Then we build on that.
Bookmark bump
Every time i read Charlie Reese on a subject where no Israel/Jooos are involved, I am saddened at the gross waste of his talent, because he is really good. Until he sees another Jooo in a shadow...
McCain blew the opportunity to place the blame where it should have been placed. This election may well have been decided because he failed to do so.
Palin had better be the pit bull and mention it tonight.
Burning Down the House (how the Democrats caused the global financial meltdown)
House Democrats Covering up Grave Risk posed by Fannie Mae---In Their Own Words.
Obama has pulled so many flip flops and gaffes and McCain hasn't capitalized on any of them.
Look at the Obama/NRA ads fiasco. Obama revealed that he doesn't actually believe in the First or Second Amendments. Even Missouri's Governor intervened and castigated Obama for his deplorable actions. That was a giant, gift wrapped present to the Republican ticket, and they simply ignored it. WTF...??
where no Israel/Jooos are involved
I am sorry to hear that. I really have never read his articles except for this e-mailed one. But, in this instance he made sense.
The Democrats “socialized the risk and privatized the profit.”
Yes, and then fill out whatever's left of the sound bite with details of the compensation received by former GSE heads Franklin Delano Raines and James Johnson, who are now among Bambi's close advisors.
Whenever liberalism screws up, the only answer the 'Rats have is more liberalism.
No on the Senate version of the House Bill with additional lipstick...
It’s not about “liquidity”. It’s about overturning our Constitution.
McCain drank the fear-mongering Kool-Aid with the majority of Congress, and voted to create a dictator in the person of the Secretary of the Treasury.
We all miss Charlie Reese - he used to be posted on Free Republic all the time and he always hit the target.
Nice catch!
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