How much money will a bill have to cost before congress will bother to read it?
The Democrats went back on their promise to allow a 48 hour period for congress to read the 1000+ pages that comprise the stimulus package just passed. That means that our leaders just spent 800 billion dollars of our children’s money without even knowing what they were voting on. That’s roughly $8,000 for every taxpayer in the country. Or, in 2030 dollars, a doughnut and medium coffee.
You can be sure the special interests know what’s in it. You can be sure each Senator knows the pork coming his district’s way. But each member of our esteemed congress didn’t know 90% of what they were voting for.
Apparently, we don’t even have two days to spare? Utter bullshit. Congress is still taking breaks. They are still going home on the weekends, aren’t they? But when it comes to spending close to a trillion dollars, they just can’t wait two days?
I’m going to have to buy a lot of liquor this April to get through having to pay taxes to this government…
I can’t believe they couldn’t wait the 2 days. *shaking head*
Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online had a good observation about the stimulus bill. He observed that all the political leaders kept repeating that we have to do something. Well, he wrote, if my house is on fire, throwing a bucket of gas on it is ‘doing something’ but I wouldn’t advise it. Wouldn’t it make sense to take some time to make sure we are doing something…that makes sense? Of course it would. But as Rahm Emanuel noted (in what he now probably looks on as a regrettable bout of candor) this administration doesn’t want to waste this crisis.