"We are opposed...by a ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the [war] with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match...."JFK 1961
Gee, anyone out there want to guess who John Kennedy is referring to in this speech...?..And yet the more I thought about this and after once again watching Aaron Russo's brilliant film America; Freedom to Fascism, there are plenty of people who we should be holding accountable . The following report is on the 545 people that could end our rush to ruin with a stroke of the pen..I am curious about what you are thinking. I would like some suggestions from you as to what you think we must do to get our nation under our control and out of the greedy hands of the International Bankers. Because I think it's fair to say, if we aren't the ones pissed off and worried enough to speak up and at least get the conversation going..than who really should be held responsible for whatever awaits us?
The 545
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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 U.S., including the Politicians
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.
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!
The real problem comes to the surface for all to see. How do you get this message out to the masses and, bigger yet, get them to do something about it? Politics has become an easy and comfortable way to get rich. It's the quintassential evil game of Follow The Leader with monetary rewards in abundance that carry with them very little risk of paying a great price if one gets caught with the hand in the cookie jar. I think your solution to vote the bums out is our only chance at restoring our country to even a modicum of the goodness and pride it had when it was established by the Founding Fathers. Don't you know that, if those Fathers could come back, they'd kick some serious ass, vacating most of the seats in both houses and the oval office (and I don't mean just Bush, either. They'd have plenty of boot left for all the presidents back to the turn of the 19th century). Our country and we, the people, own the Constitution and the responsibility to protect and preserve it from all who wish to dismantle and destroy it,both from within our nation and from without. We have done a very poor job of that, a thing that I think was Osama bin Laden's plan from the beginning. Stomp on the foot of America then watch her jump around and curse everything and everyone she trips over, blaming everyone and everything she encounters, taking her own life along the way. How could this be possible? One way is to get America to start a war in the middle east, stir up the hornet's nest and drive oil prices up and out of control and, as a result of her actions, watch as her economy collapses and she lies dying on the steps of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. And what's so frightening is, we never saw it coming! We are destroying our own beloved Constitution and are bent on destroying our way of life through the failure of the economy. We have just begun to see the entire scope of the troubles that await us, for we are looking at the tip of the iceburg. Time to sing Kumbaya, and mean it!
