FROM DIANNE BERRYHILL, RUNNING FOR FLORIDA REPRESENTATIVE

I can't vote for Dianne - I'm not in her county. She is a panhandle independent candidate. She answers emails, and is working to get elected tirelessly. I've met her. She's one strong lady with convictions.

Here is what she sent today. What do you think, north Florida? Forget the incumbents and forget the major parties. Vote for an independent thinker - Dianne Berryhill!

When are we as people going to stop allowing the parties to continue the fear mongering they engage in just to stay in power? We can do without the parties, and we can do without these people. Our country will not fall apart if we replace the Republicans and the Democrats with people who want to serve and save our country. When we realize it is not about the debt, jobs or national security anymore; it is about saving this country as a Republic. If we fall to Socialism whether the debt is astronomical, we have no jobs or our military is weakened does not matter. Do you believe any of those things were important to the Jewish people under Hitler's rule? The only thing that was important to them was basic survival. Eating and staying alive! We are at a turning point in this country, do we take back our country or allow the 545 to continue down the same path. Dianne

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

545 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. 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 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, 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.

What you do with this article now that you have read it.......

Is up to you!