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       M. Richard Maxson

      Charley Reese (January 29, 1937 – May 21, 2013) was an American syndicated columnist. Reese was a conservative with many libertarian views. He was unhappy with both major parties and switched multiple times. His displeasure with politicians can be summed up in one of his quotes, “...most politicians today are not human beings. You want to pry open their mouths and shout into the darkness, 'Hello! Is there a human being in there?' Buried under all that lust for office, all that fear of offending a contributor? I know there must be.” His common sense columns were praised by all and in 1999, when C-SPAN viewers were asked to vote for their favorite columnist, Reese finished in first place. Here, over 30 years later, is one of his best that still stands the test of time.

545 vs. 300,000,000 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 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. The leader of the majority party 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 cannot 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 and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ..

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.

What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you. This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!

GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!

The Progressives Democratic Socialism - A Disaster

By

       Zeno Potas

      Socialism is something many Americans never thought they would ever see in this country. Just the thought of that anti-Constituional ideology was abhorrent to most. For the last one hundred years, in the west, the dogma was cloaked with the title “progressivism” to be more palatable. Now, the slightly different factions live in the Democratic party and are right out there for all to see. Progressives, Socialists, Democratic Socialists, and more.

      According to Karl Marx, Socialism, is the transition stage to Communism. Communist subversion holds that society must first be destabilized (by polarization) and brought to a state of crisis before it can be “normalized” under the new system. Communism is created step-by-step through the gradual destruction of traditional culture (the Constitution) and moral values (religion) through its various social movements. Communist systems attack a handful of traditional beliefs or moral concepts at a time, and through manufactured chaos and social instability, it aims to destroy the institutions that once existed so that it can re-create society according to what it wants.The differences between Progressives and Conservative Americans could not be starker: 

 

• Conservative Americans believe in self-rule by the people, in freedom, and equal justice under the law.
• Progressives believe in rule by the few - social justice that favors certain political factions over others.
  
  
• Conservative Americans believe in the Rule of Law
• Progressives believe in the Rule of Will.

• Conservative Americans believe that all men are created equal before God and the Law.
• Progressives believe that some men are more equal than others.

• Conservative Americans believe that taxes are only intended to pay for those services that every citizen requires to secure their safety and liberty from threats to both, like courthouses and armies.
• Progressives believe that taxes should be used to share success and “redistribute wealth” to provide for dole programs and subsidies for those who don't contribute. 
   
• Conservative Americans revere the principles outlined in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers. The Constitution as the greatest set of principals ever assembled by humanity.
• Progressives see such principles as antiquated and obsolete made up by rich white, slave owners and therefore they and it are tarnished and irrelevant which need to change.

      Why now is free market capitalism disfavored and threatened by many on the left? It is not because of its failure, but because of its success. Free market capitalism in America has been so successful in eliminating the traditional problems of mankind – such as disease, pestilence, hunger, and gross poverty -- that all other human problems appear both unbearable and inexcusable. The desire by many privileged Americans to eliminate these so-called unbearable and inexcusable problems has led to the call for Socialism. But as Dr. Thomas Sowell has said, "Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that Socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster."

Voter Fraud is Real and It's Bad.

By

       George Sontag

      The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of voter ID in a 6-3 decision in 2008. Since that time, 34 states have adopted some form of ID laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Other states, mostly controlled by the Democratic party have fought the decision. This movement is funded, in part, by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a George Soros-funded election group.

      The Democratic party constantly insists that voter fraud is almost non-existent. So why, in 2012, did Pew researchers reported that more than 24 million voter registrations were inaccurate, outdated or duplicates, that nearly 2 million dead people were on the rolls, and that nearly three million people were registered in more than one state?

Time to stop the lies and look at the facts – the real facts.

• There have been more than 1,000 convictions for voter fraud since 2000.
• 8,400 instances of double voting in the 2016 election in 20 states.
• In Los Angeles County, there are 144 registered voters for every 100 citizens of voting age, according to a Judicial Watch report from 2017.
• State elections officials in North Carolina are investigating hundreds of cases of potential voter fraud after identifying thousands of registered voters with personal information matching those of voters who voted in other states in 2012.
  
• Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch said by his calculation, around 1.1 million non-citizens voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election.
  “And of course every one of those illegal votes is a stolen vote of an honest American,” he said. “They vote in substantially large numbers, and anyone that tells you otherwise is blowing smoke in your ear.
  

Here are some stories that were buried in the US media.

Scores Of Registered Voters Over 116 Years Old Found In Ohio’s 12th District That Just Had Tight Special Election

      Eric Eggers, the research director at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), reports that GAI accessed voter rolls in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District last August and found "170 registered voters listed as being over 116 years old [that] still existed on the [voter] rolls." Eggers notes that leftist billionaire and Democratic mega-donor George Soros pledged millions of dollars to fight against voter ID laws in Ohio before the 2016 elections.

Twice As Many Ballots Cast As There Are Voters In Georgia Precinct

     Democratic voters came back to life. Questions of electronic malfunction, outside tampering, and voter fraud — particularly in light of a pending investigation into alleged voter fraud during the Atlanta mayoral election runoff last December — linger over the state.

23,000+ Voters Incorrectly Registered by California DMV

      Officials are rushing to correct mistakes as the California DMV incorrectly registers more than 23,000 voters. The errors reveal serious flaws in California’s voting system.

Illinois Democrat Party Leader Tells Voters: “Vote Early, Vote Often. Whatever You Can Get Away With”

https://youtu.be/MUncFEbvbkQ

California's DMV finds 1,500 more people possibly wrongly registered to vote: report

      “California statewide is a mess,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. “Generally speaking, California doesn’t remove you from their voter rolls, despite you never voting, despite you dying—it looks like—they just don’t do it. What a recipe for fraud.”

THEY EVEN TRY TO CHEAT EACH OTHER

Texas Democrat Runoff Election Results Invalidated for ‘Voter Fraud’

     No Republican candidate ran on the other side of this race. The winner of the Democrat do-over primary election will run unopposed for the Precinct 4 in November.

AND: JUST YESTERDAY

Four Democrats Arrested For Running ‘Voter Fraud Ring’ - Targeted Seniors In Fort Worth 10/14/2018

       Members of an organized voter fraud ring have been arrested and indicted on charges they targeted and, in one case stole, the votes of elderly voters.
Four people (Democrats) were arrested — Leticia Sanchez, Leticia Sanchez Tepichin, Maria Solis and Laura Parra — after being indicted on 30 felony counts of voter fraud, according to a statement from the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
These people allegedly were paid to target older voters on the north side “in a scheme to generate a large number of mail ballots and then harvest those ballots for specific candidates in 2016. The harvesters sit around and fill these out by the hundreds, often by the thousands,” the statement read.

FINALLY DOING SOMETHING?

US House Approves Measure Against Non-Citizen Voting

      65 percent of House says only citizens should be allowed to vote in US elections.

BUT WILL IT MATTER?

Nation's Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software...

MOTHERBOARD reports:
      The nation's top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, AND LIED ABOUT IT, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.

      It’s not as if the Right Wing was engaged in voter fraud. in Philedelphia during the last election. . . Democrats won 100 percent of the vote in multiple districts. “That is outrageous. That is criminal. That is wrong, and it shouldn’t be allowed to go any further without substantial investigations from our local district attorneys who are the ones charged with enforcing these laws. We have the 'Walking Dead,' and now we've got the 'Voting Dead. "I guess the reason there's no proof of voter fraud is because we weren't looking for it," said Sen. Bob Rucho. That and we are constantly being told that it doesn't exist.

*For more, see the American Civil Rights Union’s paper, The Truth about Voter ID.

A Crucial Constitutional Appointment

By

       M. Richard Maxson

      Many modern-day Americans have been duped by the Progressives into accepting a European-style march toward Socialism and because of decades and decades of statist propaganda in our primary schools and universities, in media, and directly from the government, younger Americans fail to appreciate the rich legacy of personal liberty that is everyone’s birthright and is expressly articulated in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The thing which defines what an American is – is an idea - liberty.

      We don't teach the basics of this great country anymore and by not doing that the foundation of our society is beginning to crumble. The fight over the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice is the latest battle between “originalists” - those who believe the Constitution is the greatest document ever produced by humanity and the “revisionists” who believe the Constitution is outdated and irrelevant and a hindrance to their goals of a liberal utopia which are, as Mr. Obama put it, “to fundamentally change America.”

     We have entered a new battlespace between left and right. This disgusting display put on by the Senate over the past few weeks is only the latest battle in this war. America had a Supreme Court made up of, to put it simply, of four “originalists” and four who believe in a “living Constitution,” one that, they believe, may be changed at the whim of the Judicial branch - which is in violation of that same Constitution. The late Justice Scalia argued that the Constitution means what it says; it says it is the supreme law of the land; and all American judges have taken a solemn oath to be subject to what it says. It is superior(not up to) to the jurists who interpret it. It is what it says, not as they might wish it say. Thus, all judges are bound by the text but some in power disagreed.

      We can trace the attack on the Constitution back to the time right after the Communist revolution. President Woodrow Wilson saw in their ideology, new possibilities to change the country. After the industrial revolution changed America and the world he thought that the Constitution and the rules of law in the United States should be amended for a new era. He saw Communist ideology as the partial path to the future but the term was abhorrent to the public at large, so a new term, one for America was coined - “Progressive.” These early Progressives did not seek to amend or to improve the Constitution — they sought to subvert it. Their main tool in this endeavor was the executive office itself.
President Woodrow Wilson and his Progressive allies in Congress understood the separation of powers built into the Constitution. They considered the separation of powers unnecessary in their own time—man had progressed beyond the founders’ fear of factions, and what he now needed was a strong, centralized symbol of authority. Wilson’s aim was to enlarge the power and scope of the national government by assigning to the president the power to supervise each branch. The Progressive philosophy of Wilson and other Democrats has become the standard of many on the Left in government today. They will do anything to achieve their means as we have seen over the past few weeks with the confirmation hearings of the Supreme Court Justice.

      It is no conspiratorial fantasy that enemies of the Constitution are seeking to replace it and Machiavellian bureaucrats and lawyers manipulate the law to achieve partisan ends? Law is used by those in power – often bureaucrats – to advance their ideological views through their power. The ideological view of Progressives is that the Constitution, as it was written, is a hindrance to their Liberal utopia. 
 
      Liberal justices who take a "living Constitution" approach to America's founding document, reading into the text "rights" that simply aren't there. Justice Gorsuch is critical of activist jurists. He wrote. “American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. This overweening addiction to the courtroom as the place to debate social policy is bad for the country and bad for the judiciary.”

      Judges must do more than merely consider the Constitution, Gorsuch has written. “They take an oath to uphold it. So any theory of judging must be measured against that foundational duty. Yet it seems to me those who would have judges behave like legislators, imposing their moral convictions and utility calculi on others, face an uphill battle when it comes to reconciling their judicial philosophy with our founding document.” That was from an essay in the Case Western Law Review, which Gorsuch wrote to acknowledge his great debt to Justice Scalia.

      Today, enemies of the Constitution are now hiding in plain sight. No longer do we have gentle disagreements about public policy. Instead, the Left has sought to criminalize many disagreements through the courts and has weaponized the law to attack their foes – both personally and substantively – and is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a multi-front war to transform the remaining institutions that they have not already transformed. That is why this weeks vote was so crucial for the good of our country, for the good of our society, for the prosperity of our children.