The 545 People most responsible for America’s Problems

Let’s start off with some eternal truths. 1. Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Then they either make them worse or find a way to make sure the cure is worse than the original problem so that the cure also becomes a problem. That way, they can lie about what they’ve been doing to stave off the original problem.

2. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? If the government were run like most businesses, we would have declared bankruptcy long ago and restructured to prevent further deficits. Governments should always break even every year, regardless of its level. To do anything else suggest incompetence on the part of the politicians in charge.

3. Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? Because inflation means you have to spend more money for anything thereby requiring politicians to spend more monies on everything to keep the same level of services. This way, they can legitimately ask for more and more of your money.

4. You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. And congress authorizes the expenditures and the taxes to pay for them. Remember this always. Governments have no monies nor wealth that they don’t first take from their subjects.

5. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. Then the Senate is supposed to discuss and adjust those appropriations, not rubber stamp them. Of course, Senators are no longer beholden to the State Governments because they’re popularly elected just like their Representative neighbors so they’ve become just another spending body. That’s how elections are won. Buy the votes with their own monies collected through taxes they have no voice in controlling.

6. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. Them with the money makes the rules.

7. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. (occasionally, if the Federal Bank isn’t looking.)

8. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. (Well, until Obama was elected, anyway.)

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I exclude the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. It’s a good job if you can get it.

I also exclude all special interests and lobbyists for the very simple reason they have no legal authority, no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing (except with money, of course.). I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. Politicians have the power to accept or reject. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine his votes.

Those 545 human beings spend a lot of their energy (we call it campaigning after they’ve been elected.) convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. And some of the media cooperates as well, particularly if they like the politician in question, like Barry Barrack Soetoro Hussein Obama. He is the first near black president, you know…

That separating politicians from normal human beings is an excessive amount of gall. No (intelligent) normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker of the House to stand up and criticize a President for creating deficits.   The president only proposes a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it and he doesn’t appropriate monies.

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? Nancy Pelosi, 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 can manage to agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million has not yet replaced a mere 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.   I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not directly traceable 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. It would seem self evident.

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 and Afghanistan, it's because they want them there. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan and HEALTH CARE INSURANCE PLAN not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems except those Congress wishes to ignore and perpetuate.

Don’t let those 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 that power.   Above all, don’t let them con you into the belief that there exists such disembodied ephemeral, mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing the things 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! Never vote for an incumbent. Throw’em all out. The very few honest ones will have no trouble finding honest work. The rest can go on welfare.

PL Booth, www.blueeyeview.blogspot.com 07/18/09

Walter Williams wrote a recent editorial about the Naval Academy and their Diversity Program. Having experienced this form of discrimination many times while a federal employee, I agree with him wholeheartedly. Here’s how the Naval Academy's PowerPoint display explains diversity by saying, "Diversity is all the different characteristics and attributes of individual sailors and civilians which enhance the mission readiness of the Navy," adding that: "Diversity is more than equal opportunity, race, gender or religion. Diversity is the understanding of how each of us brings different skills, talents and experiences to the fight -- and valuing those differences. Leveraging diversity creates an environment of excellence and continuous improvement to remove artificial achievement barriers and value the contribution of all participants." Admiral Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, says that "diversity is the No. 1 priority" at the academy.” Unfortunately, how diversity is being and is to be achieved completely belies this statement.

Says Walter, “Diversity at the Naval Academy, as at most academic institutions, is not about equal opportunity but a race and sex spoils system to achieve what the Navy brass see as a pleasing race and sex mix. They accomplish that vision by the removal of "artificial achievement barriers." Mr. Williams, a professional, educated black man of real accomplishment, then describes what he sees as the Naval Academy’s artificial achievement barrier candidate, a black with B and C grades, with no particular leadership qualities, and 500 on both portions of the SAT. Such is virtually guaranteed admittance while a white student, who's not an athlete, with such scores is deemed not qualified. In fact, there is a disproportionate number of unqualified blacks now in attendance at 3 service academies.

Many students ( of all minority groups) are admitted to the Naval Academy through remedial training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport, R.I., which is a one-year post-secondary school. Finishing the year with a 2.0 GPA, a C average, almost guarantees admission to the academy. A C average for remedial work is nothing to write home about. Occasionally, when students don't make the 2.0 GPA target, the target is renegotiated downward. Minority applicants with SAT scores down to the 300s and with Cs and Ds grades (and no particular leadership or athletics) are also admitted after a remedial year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School. “ All the academies have their remedial schools.

But such unqualified applicants who apply for mere government positions not Military Academies are still hired and given promotion preferences over higher qualified non-minorities simply because they exist, even though the Civil Service Law governing “equal opportunity” dictates different methodology for selections than mere color or gender. The Law is ignored in the name of diversity and most promotional selections must first be approved by some “equal opportunity” office or board made up of minorities, generally blacks. This has been going on so long, there is a huge majority disparity of black women who now run virtually every agency in Washington.

Selection boards and officials are under constant pressure to select minorities rather than better qualified and educated whites. They found the way to do this legally is to lower the overall standards for selections by discounting education directly related to the agencies for which they work, equalizing outside work experience with experience gained within each agency, then allowing anyone with an overall score above the actual minimum required to be selected rather than the most qualified. Sometimes the information and selection criteria used become “unavailable” or the selectors are told to NOT write anything down because no records will then be available in case of lawsuits or reviews.

Diversity agendas give rise to widespread resentments at two levels. Some minorities admitted or promoted meritoriously on the same basis as whites, resent the idea of being seen as having the same minimal qualities as blacks given preferential treatment, in other words being ignorant. Another level of resentment comes from whites who see minorities being admitted, retained, and promoted at lower levels of overall performance and achievement then being treated with kid gloves. If any whites openly complain about the unequal treatment, they run the risk of being labeled as racists, one of the most unappreciated aspects of preferential treatment. It runs the risk of creating racist attitudes, and possibly feelings of racial superiority, among whites and others who were formerly racially neutral.  

Governments at all levels, Colleges, Universities, and Corporations with racially preferential admittance and promotional policies are doing a great disservice to blacks and other minorities in another, mostly ignored, way. By admitting and promoting poorly prepared and educated blacks and minorities, they are helping to conceal the grossly fraudulent education they receive at the K through 12 grades. Also, ignorance breeds ignorance and bad decisions because the poorly prepared don’t want to compete with more highly qualified so tend to select and promote other poorly qualified minorities with whom they can better compete. And this forces already low standards even lower.

PL Booth, www.blueeyeview.blogspot.com 07/22/09