545 People

Bill — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:56:13 +0000

The article that your will find below was emailed to me. I’m not sure when it was published but there is some interesting truth in what Charlie Reese discusses. These 545 people create problems that they then need to find creative ways to solve. Most of the creativity as of late is to spend money on the problem and money never solves a problem. It just digs a deeper hole that we need to try to crawl out of… We all need to seriously think about learning to speak Chinese…they own this country and are buying our debt and funding the agendas of the 545. Things in life aren’t free and we need to stop!!! Take our hard knocks and start to rebuild. The 545 need to remember the founding principles of this country… and those that don’t need to be gone! It is your responsibility… VOTE them OUT!

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 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 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 the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

American Idol and Voting…

Bill — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:46:23 +0000

For the past couple of seasons of American Idol I have resorted to an automatic, “intelligent” dialing program to place my votes for me. The interesting thing about DialIdol is that it “measures the busy signals” to figure out which of the idols are getting the votes. If it makes a determination that your choice(s) are NOT going to be safe it will start dialing for them while not wasting time dialing those that are getting the busy signals since they are already getting votes.

The accuracy of DialIdol is tied to the number of people that are using it. The more people, the more accurate the determination will be as to which of the idols are getting the busy signals. The author has done a pretty good job and building an algorithm that not only factors into the equation the busy signals but overall weighted averages and time zones. (Since voting begins on the east coast, and this is the first exposure these calls are weighted differently than those that are in the western time zones.) For those of you that are statistically inclined there is a link on the web page that will explain it to you.

So what are your thoughts. Do you think the use of tools like this are really changing the outcome of the show? Do you think that your votes really matter? I’ve heard the arguments that people vote to keep the worst talent on the show just so they can “stick it” to the judges. Would a tool like this help in that mission? Are there other dialing tools that you use to vote for your favorites?

I encourage you to at least take a look… share your thoughts

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545 People

American Idol and Voting…