The McCarty Metro - The Readers Speak

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Dear Editor: STOP THE PRESSES... I hope you were able to include the death of song writer Ellie Greenwich in the latest edition of the Metro. -Millard
ED NOTE: I stopped the presses and added her in my Gone But Not Forgotten. She wrote songs before 1965, including "Be My Baby" and "Chapel of Love" ... The last time a good song was ever written. Bye Bye Miss American Pie.

Dear Editor and Mrs. Editor. Happy 25th Anniversary! After putting on that gigantic party, it's time to sit back, look lovingly into each other's eyes and remember your wedding day. Have a piece of chicken while you're at it. And another. Enjoy Labor Day and your anniversary. -Mike and Karen
ED NOTE: It is more of a leer, and you forgot about the beans, mostaccioli, meatballs and tequila we are still graced with... And by the way Mike, DP says "Sorry" and "You were the pick of the litter".

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Dear Editor: What is the deal with giving Peanut & Jocko a month off and replacing them with Tangerine & Grape. I've worked for the Metro over 40 years and I have never got a vacation. Is this a new policy? -Dudley Award Winner Jerry McCarty
ED NOTE: Sorry Jerry, but Peanut told me he was really "pooped" out, and I got scared!
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to Kelly & Margaret McCarty for putting on such a great party in September. The food was great, the bar was terrific, and the entertainment was... well... let's just say there was entertainment

to President Obama and the democratic congress for nearly tripling the national debt that Bush left him only 9 months ago. Way to look out for our kids. And what about the withdrawal of troops. Maybe Bush wasn't the problem.

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Submit rants, praises, & observations to reply@mccartymetro.com. This month's observation is from Charley Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, 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 - 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 G.W. BUSH 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? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto.

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, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise 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 Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ.

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 exist 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. If you can't stand behind our troops, try standing in front of them!