My friends, I just received this, and since I could not say it as well, thought I would pass it on as written. I believe we will never regain control of our government without strict term limits. I am often asked, how this can be done. Well, nothing happens in our governmant without large numbers of citizens speaking out.

It is time!!!! I received an email recently where someone suggested that term limits are imposed when the people refuse to vote for an incumbent. Maybe that is what it will take. Our country is facing the greatest threat in our lifetime. Our economy is already beginning to react negatively, and this can get worse. Our Congress is stuck at the "Hate Bush" position, and nothing positive has come from them, since the Democrats took control. I feel we must make an all out effort to insure Conservatives retake the House and the Senate at the earlies opportunity. As we elect new members to Congress, one of the pass/fail tests should be whether or not they support term limits. You and I need to work together at beginning a grass root level movement toward voting out the existing members and electing younger, energetic House and Senate Members who accept limited time on the Hill, and actively represent "the people". A GREAT LIST TO CHOOSE FROM ARE OUR VETS RETURNING FROM THE MIDDLE-EAST AND GETTING OUT OF THE MILITARY TO RUN FOR OFFICE. They are smart, and they have been there. They recognise who supported then and who did not. There are a dozen or so, that I know of running for election now, and they are all Conservatives

Please read the following, and see if it moves you as it did me.

Jim Cash

B/G USAF. Ret.

RIGHT ON..........................................

THE 545 PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICA...BESIDE YOURSELF.

BY 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.

A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY 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.

REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS

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.