In 1984 Charley Reese of the Orlando Sentinel wrote the following. Still true today.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings, out of 300 million, who 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 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.
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 and 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.
Article and video cross-posted from Greg Reese’s Substack.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
i look forward to when the hangings start or the nukes go off… whichever comes first …
If the people weren’t lulled into a stupor by such a severe lack of education, constant entertainment, and drugs, they would realize that we’re a nation of “the people” governed by the people and for the people. If localities don’t want to allow the hack-able soros backed voting machines; they’re not forced to use them. If the locality doesn’t want little covert marxists (schooled by a Cloward / Piven based college curriculum) running the show, we can make them step down. It’s all a matter of getting everyone to turn off the barrage of scripted BS that keeps them asleep.
I know the root of the problem, it’s extroverts vs. introverts. Think about it.
And it matters not how they are disposed of. As long as these devil’s deciples, who , along with their predecessors, have raped and pillaged our Nation it’s natural resources and human souls, are eradicated, goodness will have been achieved.
Every one thinks that their particular representative or senator is the good one and it is all the other ones that are at fault.
Actually, it’s 300 million vs ~4 million (total number of federal employees…including ALL OF THE MILITARY)…It will stop when we have collectively had enough and STOP IT….but not one day before.
The point is Federal employees don’t have the ultimate power. They don’t decide like the 545 do. Not all Federal employees are bad. Most, but not all. The 545 are the problem.
While that is true….they don’t do any of it….AND….they don’t interpret what the 545 pass to give themselves the greatest power….NONE of the 545 EVER invisioned what jack 4King smith is doing with the law…even loosing consistently to SCOTUS has phased him…..NOR….will 545 be the ones in the way if folks decide to do something about it..
Life isn’t a movie. Learn a little history and you’ll see that tyrants don’t relinquish power and you’ll also see they aren’t the ones doing the dirty work. Their lap dogs are the most ruthless who will do anything to appease their masters. If patriots actually stood up the federal government would kill hundreds of thousands in the initial air and naval campaign alone. Couple that with 40+ million illegals who can be armed in a hurry in addition to the millions of statists on the left and right.
600,000 died the last time any body stood up to the feds.
No. The blame, the problem, the challenge, and the solution are to be found in those 300 million.
This nation has turned on the Holy One, Blessed is He, the Creator, Giver of Life, the One Who Bestows our Liberty and Grants our Freedom.
God Almighty has been booted out of American life, the public and most of the private Americans are immersed in themselves and their imaginations, fantasies, and delusions.
Nothing will change unless there is true repentance. For crying out loud, folks, open up The Book and learn something!