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Did YOU read the bill? - Purple Oak Politics

Did YOU read the bill?

healthcare-reformOh my is there hot controversy over the health care reform bill. The left is calling for it’s support and are afflicted by what seems to be a blindness born out of desperation for ’something to be done’ no matter what the cost.
The right is under a perpetual spell of paranoia and seem to be scared senseless that the bill, if passed, will legalize something akin to Soilent Green.

The repubs are calling the dems communists, the dems are calling the repubs “political terrorists”.

It’s a total disaster and a complete nightmare of absurdity.

John Conyers, (D-MI) publically admitted that reading the bill is of little use.  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACbwND52rrw)

Excuse me WHAAAT?

Folks, these people are making decisions for us that will very much effect ALL of our lives and somehow we allow them to just run willy-nilly around the House floor, vote without understanding and thus pass laws based on…. assumption and the word of the screaming crowds?

All this is just utter craziness! It’s like the dark ages here my friends! Have we all gone completely mad?

So…. let me ask you something;  Is a bill supposed to be a THOUSAND pages in the first place? Should it be written in the language of the absurd?  Is our Constitution not written simply, for the average person to understand?   Should bills and proposals not be written just as clearly?  Did the Supreme Court not rule that laws must be written with clear and understandable words?

Maybe the issue here, people… (now pay attention because this is important) is not whether or not this reform bill should pass… but whether it should even EXIST in the words it is in.

How can we possibly allow our congressmen to vote on something they have not read?

More importantly, how can YOU put your fist in the air and yell and scream about a bill you didn’t read?

I’ll be so bold as to say that if you have an opinion aobut the healthcare bill, you are a hypocrit!  If more than half of congress hasn’t read it (and they are voting on the blasted thing) then I would venture to guess you haven’t read it either, and even if you did, can you guarantee that you understand it thoroughly? I doubt it. It seems clear that it was written with the specific intention of being unclear, illogical and confusing.

Why? Because this chaos is the natural result of misleading information and lack of understanding.
Chaos makes people emotional, angry and uncomfortable. This then leads to a state of unrest and disorder…. then the people long for order…. and guess who comes to the rescue? Hmmmm????

Folks, please, quit scurrying about with your protest signs like rats in a cage and get smart would you?

The symptoms are not the problem. The disease is the problem. Lets try to refocus here.

Thoughts? (and I mean that quite literally)

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3 Comments

  1. Angela C

    I totally agree, that before we start freaking out or raising our voices, we need to educate ourselves about the subject.

  2. poetrycat

    You know what I haven’t seen (maybe because I haven’t been watching enough of the madness) but I haven’t seen at any of these town halls, any of the represenatives, bill in hand, ready to take questions and go through and be specific. I think if I were a representative and I had to vote on this thing, I would have staff disecting it with me and if I had a town hall meeting, I would have a printed and flagged to hell copy of it with me so that the meeting with my constituents could be of some meaning. Then we could discuss fact and not fiction and we could read (some of) the damn thing together. I would love to see that. To see someone up there trying to actually bring the thing that we are suppose to be discussing and debateing and have it handy and reference it. Who cares if it is a thousand pages…make the damn effort, get help from staff or family!! And no, I have not yet read it myself. I am all for reform, but not quite sure if this exact bill is the answer, so I guess you could say I don’t have a loud and sure opinion. Honestly, I am just so overwhelmed by all the madness I can’t even stand to turn on the news anymore.

  3. Veda

    Poetrycat said: “so I guess you could say I don’t have a loud and sure opinion. Honestly, I am just so overwhelmed by all the madness I can’t even stand to turn on the news anymore”

    and boy can I ever say “I HEAR THAT!”

    And that is just point isn’t it?

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