Innocent wrote:Legislators will begin passing laws based on the prevailing science sooner rather than later
How many dead people are voting for these legislators? Who is running for office? On second thought who would want to spend a day around those in office? Do these hummers even know what they are looking at when they go on their dog and pony tours? They sure as hell aren't listenting to the operators of the equipment.
Mary
I think this somes it up best Mary...
545 People By Charlie Reese
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel
Newspaper (April 22, 2008). This is the simplest, most
understandable and truest explanation of the woes of the nation and
who caused them, as well as how to cure them. This should be sent to
every person in the United States, including the '545'.
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 or she votes.
These 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 the 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 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. The President cannot unilaterally declare war The President
needs the approval of Congress, as well as the budget from Congress
to continue a war.
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.
These 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!
