Rand Paul Introduces Legislation To Force Reading Of Bills Before Voting (lawyer, health care)
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Funny, on one day some want government to act like a business, but then the next day, you want them to spend the time doing what that they have staff's that are paid good money to do, and in many cases might be a little more knowledgeable in the topic. Not very cost effective.
I don't want the federal government to run like a business, in fact I want as little of it as possible and whats left should be very slow moving.
Ridiculous. Laws are complicated. Senators don't have time for reading every word of a bill. Rand Paul just wants to stop the government from doing anything.
If they don't have the time, they can't do the crime
I'm for taking away their pens and paper too
If a representative has no understanding of what he/she is voting for, they have no business
being allowed to vote on it in the first place.
But, who is going to prove they "read it". Certainly can not depend on a gentleman/woman
agreement - not with that bunch...
I'd go much further than Rand.
I'd make the Congressmen/women take a multiple choice test on what is in any bill, before
they can vote on it. Can't pass the test, they don't get to vote on it.
Seriously. Imagine our founders came back to life for a moment. Imagine telling them the following:
Our Congress and Senate members:
have great pay and benefits
made their post a full time gig
dont read or understand half of what they vote on
have up until recently been allowed to engage in insider trading
think that the government can force people to purchase something/enter a contract
Seriously, wth is wrong with us? How in God's name did we fall this far? In what frigging world do we elect someone to a bs full time position gig to oversee this country, and they arent even expected to read/understand the bills they vote on???? And SOME people are perfectly okay with that???!!!!
Seriously. Imagine our founders came back to life for a moment. Imagine telling them the following:
Our Congress and Senate members:
have great pay and benefits
made their post a full time gig
dont read or understand half of what they vote on
have up until recently been allowed to engage in insider trading
think that the government can force people to purchase something/enter a contract
Seriously, wth is wrong with us? How in God's name did we fall this far? In what frigging world do we elect someone to a bs full time position gig to oversee this country, and they arent even expected to read/understand the bills they vote on???? And SOME people are perfectly okay with that???!!!!
And most of the laws they pass don't apply to them.
Oh please. If they cant read the bill and understand it, then they need to have shorter/smaller bills. These Senators and Congressman are doing what should be PART TIME work. This was never meant to be a full time job. Just what do they do all day anyways?
Dont tell me they dont have time to sit down and read bills. Like I said, they do part time work, for full time pay with great benefits. If we had any sense in our nation, we never wouldve allowed this to be a full time gig, having being spent on tv, radio, campaigning, ie bull crap
And why is it the most likely people to oppose the reading/understanding of bills, seem to be liberals?
Blame our election process. No other county in the world makes campaigning a full time job (or allows campaigning to happen all year).
Seriously. Imagine our founders came back to life for a moment. Imagine telling them the following:
Our Congress and Senate members:
have great pay and benefits
made their post a full time gig
dont read or understand half of what they vote on
have up until recently been allowed to engage in insider trading
think that the government can force people to purchase something/enter a contract
Seriously, wth is wrong with us? How in God's name did we fall this far? In what frigging world do we elect someone to a bs full time position gig to oversee this country, and they arent even expected to read/understand the bills they vote on???? And SOME people are perfectly okay with that???!!!!
I doubt if the founders would think that lying (or misleading statements/advertising) would be protected speech or corporations are people or that money is free speech.
Making someone read something, does not make them knowledgeable or understand what they read.
Maybe we should require everyone to read and understand the tax code before they can vote or work...........
(I know that is a little extreme, but if you expect anyone elected to have knowledge in all areas covered by government, you might as well go look for the man in the moon)
But what about the lawyers? The army of lawyers may have to actually go out and <eek> get a real job without the complexities they insert into the laws to benefit their own profession. FYI nearly half of Congress is lawyers and the single greatest contributor to politicians is lawyers with a majority of those contributions going to Democrats. Everything else pales in comparison... energy, health, banking, unions..... pffffft they are all small timers.
Im sure one of these folks, have the time to read a bill........
Do you think a 300 page amendment that appears at 3AM on the day of the vote is enough time to read, assess and debate something? These bills are ridiculously complex, not only do they need to be read but they also need to be assessed and talked about and that would include the staff that is giving advice to the Congressman.
Blame our election process. No other county in the world makes campaigning a full time job (or allows campaigning to happen all year).
Its the size and scope of government that is the problem.
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