Monday, August 1, 2011

Voting Without Reading

Once again we have another bill pushed to the last minute and of course we have a whole bunch of representatives vote on the bill without reading it. Clearly the republican elite are no better than the democrat elite. They're all more than willing to declare a bill something they have to vote on because it's a crisis, though it's a crisis they created.

I hate to say it but it seems that they create these crises on purpose so they have an excuse to vote on something they know doesn't fix the problem.

Surely they must know what will fix the problem and are just unwilling to do it. This kind of behavior is far more dangerous to our nation than the "extremist" Tea Party, who wants nothing more or less than for people to act in a financially responsible way. Since when was being truly responsible considered extreme?

They say the new bill will cut spending, but no one can or will tell you where those cuts will be or how much they are.

They started at 7 trillion dollars over 10 years, now they're down to real cuts of little more than 1 day's worth of government spending and they want us to consider that a victory.

If that is really the most they could get in cuts it doesn't say much for their fiscal responsibility.

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