We hear about Presidential Czars’ almost daily, yet there are many questions to be asked by every American, no matter what party or belief one may possess. We elect a President, a Senator and a member of the House of Representatives. The President nominates individuals for The Supreme Court and his Cabinet, but they must be confirmed by the people we elected to another branch of the government. We call it “checks and balances.” Presidential Czars’ do NOT need conformation, do you see a problem?

 

One definition of Presidential Czars’ is- 1.an informal term for certain high-level officials in the United States Executive Branch who wield unspecified power, and operate independently of the United State Legislative Branch, as they do not undergo a confirmation process and are directly appointed by the Chief Executive. http://www.jeremygilby.com/?p=2125

 

Czars’ are not something new to either party; the first President to appoint a Czar was Richard Nixon. “Richard Nixon, the first president to be openly antagonistic toward the constitution, started the American Czar movement. Along with the first Drug Czar, Nixon had an Inflation Czar who, with a hand picked council, set wage and price controls over virtually everything. This unconstitutional bit of fascist economic policy had precedence in Roosevelt’s New Deal—but nonetheless it is incredible that Americans accepted it—while relentlessly making fun of French and British socialism.” This comes from http://waronyou.com/topics/czarist-america/. Richard Nixon had two Czars’’.

 

Jimmy Carter appointed two inflation czars: Washington super lawyer (also ambassador to Russia, U.S. Trade Representative, Democratic National Committee chairman, etc., etc.) Robert Strauss and then Alfred Kahn, who was teaching at CornellUniversity at the time. Even with the czar mantle, neither Canute could hold back the tide of inflation. That job fell to the Fed chairman, Paul Volcker.

 

While previous administrations had czars – Ronald Reagan had 1, George Bush had 1, Bill Clinton had 3 and George W. Bush had 4 – Congressman Kingston’s concern takes root in the number and speed with which they are being appointed as well as the vast policy areas they govern.

“At this rate, we’ll have 272 czars by 2012,” said Congressman Kingston.  “It seems President Obama is in the midst of forming a parallel government to push his policies.  Not only do they duplicate existing Senate-confirmed positions, they are completely unaccountable.  I serve on the Appropriations Committee which is responsible for overseeing every dollar spent by our government but I’ve yet to see a single one of Obama’s czars.” While previous administrations had czars – Ronald Reagan had 1, George Bush had 1, Bill Clinton had 3 and George W. Bush had 4 – Congressman Kingston’s concern takes root in the number and speed with which they are being appointed as well as the vast policy areas they govern.

 

Is our current President trying to create his own personal administration? You decide for yourself. I am presenting some facts and trying to start a movement against unconfirmed Czars’ or Advisors to any President. What right does a person whom the electorate voted into office have to disobey the Constitution of The United States Of America?

 

That is why I am starting an organization named; CONFORMATION IS A MUST! Every person is entitled to be a member, with no membership fee. You will not receive mailings or a card; you can check my articles on www.hub.com   and add your comments. If I do not receive too many mailings; I will try to answer everyone. My private email address is harveystelman@comcast.net . I ask each of you to be a part of this by writing an article anywhere. My plan is very simple and I have taken it from Saul Alinsky.  I admit this even though our President does not.

 

We must ATTACK-ATTACK-ATTACK ! No do not mean physically, let us prove “the pen is mightier than the sword.” Since I am one man starting this, I will have to be the one to pick the Czar to write about. I will put out this Czar or Advisors name.

 

With all these individuals the President is giving his ear to; let the people force him to listen to us. Two of his appointments have already made our job easier, they have resigned. Please ask all your friends to WRITE-WRITE-WRITE! Their political positions have no meaning; we are talking about out Constitution. We have a separation of power, let us keep it.

 

CONFORMATION IS A MUST,

Harvey Stelman