[DeTomaso] Fwd: Notice to All Employees
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Fri Oct 31 10:43:39 EDT 2008
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Quoting Jim Wallace <pantera_4220 at yahoo.com>:
> All,
>
> I just couldn't resist.....this is it in a nut-shell. Take a long
> look in the mirror!
>
> Jim
>
>
> EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS
> JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY
> THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.
>
> Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.
> 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, if both the Democrats and the Republicans
> are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
>
> Have you ever wondered, 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? Nancy Pelosi. 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 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 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 theOrlando Sentinel Newspaper.
>
> What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to
> you, though you 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 against" 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.
>
>
> --- On Fri, 10/31/08, Daniel Miller <classicmusclecars at att.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Daniel Miller <classicmusclecars at att.net>
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fwd: Notice to All Employees
>> To: Fastgrandma at aol.com, Fresnofinches at aol.com, detomaso at realbig.com
>> Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 10:16 AM
>> Also.... can't anyone take a joke around here? I mean
>> GEEZ.... Whats with all the Dem's and Dat's and the
>> Rep,s and Rat,s anyway?.... :-)
>>
>> Besides we all know that virtually all of our politicians
>> are basically crooked to incompetent as well as somewhere
>> else in between nowadays. They are all guilty of something,
>> some just worse than others. I have no doubts that our fore
>> fathers if they were here now would advocate a total
>> revolution, including guillotines. But we are too lazy and
>> self centered a people overall nowadays in general to do
>> anything meaningful or lasting about it.
>>
>> Now back to your normally scheduled Pantera fodder....
>>
>> Hey... how about those webbers for 351C man?.... They sure
>> are cool..... and expensive..... :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: "Fastgrandma at aol.com"
>> <Fastgrandma at aol.com>
>> To: Fresnofinches at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:03:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fwd: Notice to All Employees
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 10/30/08 4:10:17 PM,
>> fresnofinches at aol.com writes:
>>
>>
>> > What a bunch of crap, Asa. :-(
>> >
>>
>> You do know that its not any more crap than a lot of you
>> guys toss around at
>> times and goes on waaaaay too long. All those nonsense
>> answers sure do wear
>> my delete button out!
>>
>> Judy
>>
>>
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