- I recently wrote what I had hoped was a satirical article,
poking fun at the fact President Obama could not feasibly have read all
the legislation he has signed into law, centering on the on the mammoth
2,700 page Healthcare Reform Bill. And although some people appreciated
the article, a couple of readers did not.
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- One lady reader condemned the piece as being negative,
with no discernible point; while, she invested no more of her own thought
in it than that. A male reader (who showed some thought) bought the truth
that while Obama probably didn't read the Healthcare bill - due to time
constraints - he was certainly briefed with a detailed summary of it, highlighting
the bill's major points.
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- This gentleman, like many others, does not see the absurdity
of legislation that is so long it could take weeks or months to read; after
all, our Constitution was handwritten on about four or five pages.
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- Our Declaration of Independence was handwritten on one
sheet of paper.
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- Our lawmakers and president should not be briefed on
proposed laws, they should scrutinize every line, of every proposed law,
as it is that important to the American people. And the American public
should be given the opportunity to do the same, as President Obama promised.
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- If a proposed law is too long for the average, literate
American to read and understand, in one sitting, then it should be thrown
out. Convoluted, long passages in legislation is simply an effort to hide
tyrannical intentions. All points of legislation should be debated in Congress,
by senators and representatives, not given "talking points" by
unseen agents of the International Monetary/Banking Cartel, to memorize
and parrot to the corporate media.
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- In response, I asked the gentleman, who seemed to think
a presidential briefing was adequate, to consider what a colossal briefing
that would have to be to cover 2,700 pages of just that one bill - the
mislabeled Healthcare "Reform" Act.
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- If Mr. Obama was briefed in detail on the steady stream
of hundreds of thousands of legislation pages proposed in congress, he'd
be spending every waking moment being briefed, without doing much of it
any real justice.
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- Divinity students spend years in college studying the
detailed summaries that highlight the major points in the 1,300 page Bible,
and still not cover it all. Does the above gentleman really think Obama
can be briefed on something the size of ten novels, or two Bibles, in a
month or so, especially considering all the other thousands of pages of
Executive Orders (written for him) that he signs, or the thousands of pages
of regulations that are annually issued by Executive Branch agencies?
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- Mr. Obama - and our lawmakers - read (from teleprompters)
or repeat "talking points" given to them by shadowy sources -
minions of the Shadow Government, that is beholden to the International
Monetary-Banking Cartel, while ramming through massive legislation without sincere
committee hearings and honest debates, that extend to the American people.
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- Mr. Obama has sanctioned "rule by men" rather
than "rule by laws, with the consent of the governed," a pattern
he had promised to break.
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- Our presidents, and all other politicians, have
long avoided the subjects of who reads or writes the thousands of pages
of legislation, orders, directives, and regulations that pour out of Washington
annually, as they do not know who writes it all, and do not want to have
to admit they don't read much of any of it in any case. With one exception.
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- That exception, that was probably read by Obama, et al,
was written into the Healthcare Reform Act as a loophole for the privileged:
The president, his staff and family, Joe Biden's staff and family, Nancy
Pelosi's staff, Harry Reid's staff, and many other insiders are all exempted
from the mandates of Obamacare. How nice, they've given it all to us taxpaying
Americans to have, to hold, and to pay for.
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- It would seem to me that if the tenets of the Christian
religion could be contained within the 1,300 pages of the Holy Bible, America
does not need 900,000 to millions of pages of legislation, orders, directives,
and regulations to be governed. How can we obey those laws if we don't
know what they are?
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- But, the critical questions thinking Americans will
ask themselves run along the lines of who wrote the hundreds of thousands
of pages of US legislation, orders, directives, and regulations that so
severely affect our lives. That Madame and Sir was the point of my satirical
piece, and is the important point of this article.
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- J. Speer-Williams
- jsw4@mac.com
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