Mark Twain once said "when Congress is in session, no one is safe". Well, whether they are there 100 days or 200 days the same stuff will occur. They could deliberate 10 times as much and the same result would occur. They know what is in the bills, they just like to grouse about how rushed they are.
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If the bill was printed with only the issues it represents, it wouldn't have to be more than three pages at the most. It's all of the legal trickery they put into it that makes is so long. It's up to us to put a stop to letting these people put anything they want into a bill that is sold to us as something completely different. what happened to this transparency we were supposed to have? The only CHANGE we've seen is how fast they can push a bill full of BS through the congress. SHAME SHAME SHAME
How shocking! Why, that would mean that they actually do something! B. Hussein and Pelosi know exactly what they are doing when they pushe 1,000 page bills through. The audacity of CBS to call for congress to actually read a bill on which they are to vote is just beyond junk journalism. Where oh where is that Do-Nothing-Congress when we REALLY need them?!
Well the first law we ought to pass is one that bars any attorney from holding office.. perhaps then the bills passed would be written in English rather than 1000 pages of legal babel. The laws have become phone books filled with pages of tripe that no one could possibly decipher in less than a 1000 hours.
Remember that commercial with the firemen... "who is for better schools?.. etc etc." If we kept the bills introduced on point and to single subjects maybe we might be able to understand what t he devil the crowd in congress is really signing on for when they pass a bill.
Having said all of that my father taught me as a very young boy..."Never sign anything you have not completely read." he also added that if i did not understand it to delay signing it and get the advice of people I trusted. Hmm maybe the congressional members didn't have Fathers with common sense.
"My first question would be: Why is this one law, this one bill, 1100 pages long!? "
It's that long because the representatives of the people try to sneak in any and everything they possibly can knowing it won't all be read. That's politics and we have allowed this to happen. We walk around everyday apathetic and unconcerned as long as it doesn't effect us. Well guess what, it does effect us. Incrementalism at it's best.
Remember - the worst economy since the Great Depression? We have to rush this through or the sky will fall! And no one had any time to read this bill, as well as others, since there was not time to waste.
Congress knows what is in the bill - they put the bill together and 'sign off" on it.
The excuse that they did not "read it" is an attempt to avoid blame and cover up the truth - they wanted the bill that way! Look at their source of money - like AIG donations.
Our government thinks the American People are stupid!!!!
Get rid of the idiot special interest groups who throw $$ at their favorite member of Congress. Most of the groups are out to steal our freedoms anyway, and some are led by some pretty powerful people.
The amount of garbage that is thrown on the floor is mind-boggling, and most of it is useless crap. Stick to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, and half of the crap would never get past the front steps of the capitol building.
Yep, folks...."Change we can believe in." Obama only makes changes HE can believe in....He got what he wanted, he won the election, now full steam ahead...God help us!!!
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Where oh where is that Do-Nothing-Congress when we REALLY need them?!
Remember that commercial with the firemen... "who is for better schools?.. etc etc." If we kept the bills introduced on point and to single subjects maybe we might be able to understand what t he devil the crowd in congress is really signing on for when they pass a bill.
Having said all of that my father taught me as a very young boy..."Never sign anything you have not completely read." he also added that if i did not understand it to delay signing it and get the advice of people I trusted. Hmm maybe the congressional members didn't have Fathers with common sense.
It's that long because the representatives of the people try to sneak in any and everything they possibly can knowing it won't all be read. That's politics and we have allowed this to happen. We walk around everyday apathetic and unconcerned as long as it doesn't effect us. Well guess what, it does effect us. Incrementalism at it's best.
How stupid is the American public?????
Congress knows what is in the bill - they put the bill together and 'sign off" on it.
The excuse that they did not "read it" is an attempt to avoid blame and cover up the truth - they wanted the bill that way! Look at their source of money - like AIG donations.
Our government thinks the American People are stupid!!!!
Get rid of the idiot special interest groups who throw $$ at their favorite member of Congress. Most of the groups are out to steal our freedoms anyway, and some are led by some pretty powerful people.
The amount of garbage that is thrown on the floor is mind-boggling, and most of it is useless crap. Stick to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, and half of the crap would never get past the front steps of the capitol building.