09.24
As a taxpayer and voter, this pisses me off and it should piss you off too.
Yesterday, while the Senate Finance Committee debated this massive Baucus health care bill, a measure was proposed that would have the health care bill that the committee would be voting on posted on it’s website (in its full legislative language, not conceptual) for 72 hours for the public to review. All the liberals with the exception of Senator Lincoln from Arkansas, shot it down saying it is tradition to work from the conceptual language. They then proposed and passed a measure offering the conceptual language and CBO analysis.
This raises several questions to me:
-Can the CBO give accurate numbers based on conceptual language?
Answer is NO per the CBO!
-Since when is it “tradition” to pass legislature that affects 1/6th of our GDP?
IT’S NOT!!! Stop treating it like it is no big deal. Do your damn job and educate yourself and the taxpayers on what you are proposing.
-Why cant we read the bill before you vote on it?
-Why can’t we have real numbers to look at?
-What are you afraid of?
-Where is the transparency?
-What is the hurry?
http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/committee.htm
We need to be contacting every single one of these people asking why they want to treat this as another run of the mill bill. Why do they think the American people are to dumb to be given the full blown version to review?
I challenge anyone reading this to start firing off emails and phone calls.
