Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Re: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 - Part 2 - Deathers vs. Commies
This is not an argument against you, but, how is that different from any other major piece of legislation in the last 20 years?
I propose a new procedural regulation in the spirit of those quaint requirements of having to post obituaries in the newspaper for 3 days so the creditors in the next township have time to ride to city hall and contest the will.
Prior to the final vote, the full text of every Congressional Act must be posted on the internet for 100 hours. No further amendments allowed -- a final up or down vote to be conducted after the expiration of the time.
There are ten million pairs of eyes with nothing better to do than pour over each convoluted provision, each hidden industry giveaway, each unenforceable, unfunded, incomprehensible and/or contradictory clause. Let the blogosphere go insane exhausting itself on the language, and exercising each and every detail. That many people could translate the most densely-packed 2000-page pile of obscurantist legalese into English in one day, let alone 4.
Trouble is, NOBODY, but a select few, knows what will be in the final bill. I just don't trust them to do anything sensible.
This is not an argument against you, but, how is that different from any other major piece of legislation in the last 20 years?
I propose a new procedural regulation in the spirit of those quaint requirements of having to post obituaries in the newspaper for 3 days so the creditors in the next township have time to ride to city hall and contest the will.
Prior to the final vote, the full text of every Congressional Act must be posted on the internet for 100 hours. No further amendments allowed -- a final up or down vote to be conducted after the expiration of the time.
There are ten million pairs of eyes with nothing better to do than pour over each convoluted provision, each hidden industry giveaway, each unenforceable, unfunded, incomprehensible and/or contradictory clause. Let the blogosphere go insane exhausting itself on the language, and exercising each and every detail. That many people could translate the most densely-packed 2000-page pile of obscurantist legalese into English in one day, let alone 4.