Politicians,
as I have often said, are the only people in the world who
create problems and then campaign against them.
Everything on the Republican contract is a problem created by
Congress. Too much bureaucracy? Blame Congress. Too many rules?
Blame Congress. Unjust tax laws? Congress wrote them.
Out-of-control bureaucracy? Congress authorizes everything
bureaucracies do. Americans dying in Third World rat holes on
stupid U.N. missions? Congress allows it. The annual deficits?
Congress votes for them. The $4 trillion plus debt? Congress
created it.
To put it into perspective just remember that 100 percent of the
power of the federal government comes from the U.S.
Constitution. If it's not in the Constitution, it's not
authorized.
Then read your Constitution. All 100 percent of the power of the
federal government is invested solely in 545 individual human
beings. That's all. Of 300 million Americans, only 545 of them
wield 100 percent of the power of the federal government.
That's 435 members of the U.S. House, 100 senators, one
president and nine Supreme Court justices. Anything involving
government that is wrong is 100 percent their fault.
I exclude the vice president because constitutionally he has no
power except to preside over the Senate and to vote only in the
case of a tie. I exclude the Federal Reserve because Congress
created it and all its power is power Congress delegated to it
and could withdraw anytime it chooses to do so. In fact, all the
power exercised by the 3 million or so other federal employees
is power delegated from the 545.
All bureaucracies are created by Congress or by executive order
of the president. All are financed and staffed by Congress. All
enforce laws passed by Congress.
All operate under procedures authorized by Congress. That's why
all complaints and protests should be properly directed at
Congress, not at the individual agencies.
You don't like the IRS? Go see Congress. You think the Alcohol
Tobacco and Firearms agency is running amok? Go see Congress.
Congress is the originator of all government problems and is
also the only remedy available. That's why, of course,
politicians go to such extraordinary lengths and employ
world-class sophistry to make you think they are not
responsible. Anytime a congressman pretends to be outraged by
something a federal bureaucrat does, he is in fact engaging in
one big massive con job. No federal employee can act at all
except to enforce laws passed by Congress and to employ
procedures authorized by Congress either explicitly or
implicitly.
Partisans on both sides like to blame presidents for deficits,
but all deficits are congressional deficits. The president may,
by custom, recommend a budget, but it carries no legal weight.
Only Congress is authorized by the Constitution to authorize and
appropriate and to levy taxes. That's what the federal budget
consists of: expenditures authorized, funds appropriated and
taxes levied.
Both Democrats and Republicans mislead the public. For 40 years
Democrats had majorities and could have at any time balanced the
budget if they had chosen to do so. Republicans now have
majorities and could, if they choose, pass a balanced budget
this year. Every president, Democrat or Republican, could have
vetoed appropriations bills that did not make up a balanced
budget. Every president could have recommended a balanced
budget. None has done either.
We have annual deficits and a huge federal debt because that's
what majorities in Congress and presidents in the White House
wanted. We have troops in various Third World rat holes because
Congress and the president want them there.
Don't be conned. Don't let them escape responsibility. We simply
have to sort through 300 million people until we find 545 who
will act responsibly. |