The Great Unread Heist
Douglas Fender asked:
The most basic obligation for those elected in Congress is to at least understand a piece of legislating enough to make a determination if they should vote yes, no or abstain. For some time now congress has used the excuse that bills are too long, complicated and they do not have adequate rescores to read a bill toughly before deciding to vote on it.
This pathetic and unprofessional excuse shows the arrogance and lack of regard that many in congress have for their constituents as well as their sense of responsibility. A ten year old child could tell you that if you do not understand a bill you should vote no on the grounds that it is confusing, ambiguous and or improperly written. This excuse of not being able to read a bill before voting is the “invisible monster did it” excuse that politicians use to take blame from their incompetence and derelict of duty by shifting the blame to the complexity of the written words in a bill.
Voting yes for a bill that has not been read or understood and evaluated is a crime against duty as well as the concept of representation of the citizens. If lawyers of lobbyist author bills giving themselves great power or loopholes to get unfair advantage in business and the congress blindly votes yes on these bills with no concept of what is actually written in the bill then the argument could be made that congress is paid by the lobbyist to stamp their own authored legislation into law. If this is how Washington does business then I propose we put legislation on EBay and let the special interest groups bid on it and the winner gets to write it as they see fit, as it is basically done now with congress using the excuse that they cannot read what is in the bills.
President Obama told the American public that the stimulus bill was a do or die bill and had to be signed immediately and the congress did not have a clue who authored it or what was in it and in a show of total disregard for proper professionalism they passed a bill that is full of pork and added to the national dept numbers beyond imagination. This great heist of American wealth written on a check that the unborn will have to pay has done nothing to help the economy in any way like it was advertised and to this day most in congress have no idea who wrote it and what is in it. Does this legislation truly say that America has to buy gold cars and million dollar mansions for anyone who votes for Obama for a second term? Or that we must give the state of Alaska to China in 2020? Or America must demolish New York City and make it into a wildlife refuse. Who knows, those who voted on it do not know what it says.
The most basic obligation for those elected in Congress is to at least understand a piece of legislating enough to make a determination if they should vote yes, no or abstain. For some time now congress has used the excuse that bills are too long, complicated and they do not have adequate rescores to read a bill toughly before deciding to vote on it.
This pathetic and unprofessional excuse shows the arrogance and lack of regard that many in congress have for their constituents as well as their sense of responsibility. A ten year old child could tell you that if you do not understand a bill you should vote no on the grounds that it is confusing, ambiguous and or improperly written. This excuse of not being able to read a bill before voting is the “invisible monster did it” excuse that politicians use to take blame from their incompetence and derelict of duty by shifting the blame to the complexity of the written words in a bill.
Voting yes for a bill that has not been read or understood and evaluated is a crime against duty as well as the concept of representation of the citizens. If lawyers of lobbyist author bills giving themselves great power or loopholes to get unfair advantage in business and the congress blindly votes yes on these bills with no concept of what is actually written in the bill then the argument could be made that congress is paid by the lobbyist to stamp their own authored legislation into law. If this is how Washington does business then I propose we put legislation on EBay and let the special interest groups bid on it and the winner gets to write it as they see fit, as it is basically done now with congress using the excuse that they cannot read what is in the bills.
President Obama told the American public that the stimulus bill was a do or die bill and had to be signed immediately and the congress did not have a clue who authored it or what was in it and in a show of total disregard for proper professionalism they passed a bill that is full of pork and added to the national dept numbers beyond imagination. This great heist of American wealth written on a check that the unborn will have to pay has done nothing to help the economy in any way like it was advertised and to this day most in congress have no idea who wrote it and what is in it. Does this legislation truly say that America has to buy gold cars and million dollar mansions for anyone who votes for Obama for a second term? Or that we must give the state of Alaska to China in 2020? Or America must demolish New York City and make it into a wildlife refuse. Who knows, those who voted on it do not know what it says.
