Who Must Take Responsibility for American Success or failure?

I have always believed, and have stated such in these post, that the politicians in this country do not take responsibility for anything they do, especially the Democrats.

Why do I single out the Democrats, easy, they do not believe they have to take any responsibility for their actions as the Democrat Party never has accepted any responsibility for anything that it's members do, regardless of the severity of the infraction. Witness Teddy Kennedy, William Jefferson and Bill Clinton as just some of the more high profile Democrats that have committed huge offenses and yet remain in office.

Where as the Republicans are tossed out of office at the first hint of scandal. Why, easy, the Republican Party has rules that state the offending party must step down for the betterment of the party and the country. No such rules exist in the Democrat Party.

Are all the Republicans saints? - hardly - after all they are politicians and therefore by definition corrupt in some way.

At the same time, politicians must take responsibility for how the vote as well - wouldn't that be a noval idea, if you vote to raise taxes and the economy suffers becasue of it, you stand up and say I made a mistake, we must change our vote to reflect reality. Goodness, how refreshing would that be?

I guess then instead of voting them all out of office, we as the voting public, should make ourselves heard, demanding common sense and loyalty to our country when serving in the congress. Not allowing them to use their office as a vehicle to get rich or try and establish a new form of government that enslaves us and our off spring.

Fortify your selves, then, for the coming vote with resolve to do the right thing in November, the next time might not come along for decades.

Keep the faith, the battle is joined!

HOW TO VOTE
This column was written by a guy named Charley Reese whose stuff appears primarily in Florida newspapers.

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, do 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 say no. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY

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 of The House of Representitives, who stood up and criticized G.W. BUSH for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, 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 Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto.

REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS

It seems inconceivable to me that a 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense over-runs, that are not traceable directly to those 545. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise 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. 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 exist disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation" or"politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545people, 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 cleanup their mess.

Rigdon Terrell - Business Services Manager