Politcal Malpractice
I caught this video today. It really strikes home at one of the things that I feel is wrong with the country, the fact that our elected legislators do not even read the bills that they are passing.
Yeah, you read that right. Our legislators do not even read the bills that they pass. And like this guy notes, the bill is 1100 pages long and they have like 12 hours to go over it before voting yes or no. That is impossible. First of all, most people have never even read ANY book that is 1100 pages much less do it with any regularity. The problem is that a lot of bills are crazy long like that. The bank bailout was 500 pages long.
So right about now, you're probably wondering why we even have legislators. Because if they don't read the bills before they vote on them, what do they do (besides get schmoozed by lobbyists and soak up taxpayer coin)? Essentially, they are just looking around at what their colleagues are doing and do the same. Same old social proof that many people are living these days.
Let's say you compare them to a doctor. That would be like a doctor making a major life and death decision without doing enough diagnostic research. Of course, that is called malpractice in the medical profession and doctors are civilly liable and can be sued. Unfortunately in the political arena there isn't something describing that. I'm going to go ahead and call it political malpractice anyway though.
I don't think most peeps even realize that the legislators don't read the bills. Also, they write bills with provisions (laws) that have absolutely no relation to each other. That's exactly how a lot of BS legislation gets pushed through. People attach laws to bills that they know will get passed for sure. This is exactly how REAL ID act was passed. They attached it to a spending bill for the Iraq war which they knew would be passed. Go ahead and google REAL ID. It is a law requiring that american citizens must have a national ID linked to a national database with an RFID chip in it. Thank God there are a lot of states fighting against it, but it still doesn't change the fact that it should never have been passed at all they way it was. I don't think it should have been passed at all, ever.
So go ahead and click on Congress.org and find your legislators. Email them and ask them if they have read the new bailout bills. Then maybe ask them what they are really doing with their time.
Yeah, you read that right. Our legislators do not even read the bills that they pass. And like this guy notes, the bill is 1100 pages long and they have like 12 hours to go over it before voting yes or no. That is impossible. First of all, most people have never even read ANY book that is 1100 pages much less do it with any regularity. The problem is that a lot of bills are crazy long like that. The bank bailout was 500 pages long.
So right about now, you're probably wondering why we even have legislators. Because if they don't read the bills before they vote on them, what do they do (besides get schmoozed by lobbyists and soak up taxpayer coin)? Essentially, they are just looking around at what their colleagues are doing and do the same. Same old social proof that many people are living these days.
Let's say you compare them to a doctor. That would be like a doctor making a major life and death decision without doing enough diagnostic research. Of course, that is called malpractice in the medical profession and doctors are civilly liable and can be sued. Unfortunately in the political arena there isn't something describing that. I'm going to go ahead and call it political malpractice anyway though.
I don't think most peeps even realize that the legislators don't read the bills. Also, they write bills with provisions (laws) that have absolutely no relation to each other. That's exactly how a lot of BS legislation gets pushed through. People attach laws to bills that they know will get passed for sure. This is exactly how REAL ID act was passed. They attached it to a spending bill for the Iraq war which they knew would be passed. Go ahead and google REAL ID. It is a law requiring that american citizens must have a national ID linked to a national database with an RFID chip in it. Thank God there are a lot of states fighting against it, but it still doesn't change the fact that it should never have been passed at all they way it was. I don't think it should have been passed at all, ever.
So go ahead and click on Congress.org and find your legislators. Email them and ask them if they have read the new bailout bills. Then maybe ask them what they are really doing with their time.
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7:37 PM
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