Baby Boomers: The Generation That Lost America
15th November 2009
The United States House of Representatives, now overwhelmingly controlled by the Boomers, signed a $787 billion legislative “stimulus” package comprised of 1,071 pages and a hefty 8 pounds. Not one legislator read the bill before signing it. Months later, the same House members publicly screamed at the corrupt executives of AIG who received bonuses in 2008 – bonuses specifically allowed in the very legislation they passed without reading.
Talkin ’bout my generationnnnn….
November 16th, 2009 at 10:36
The conceptual problem with term limits is that it’s anti-democratic. It restricts people, by law, from making an unfettered choice. This is the left-wing elitist approach to politics: “You common people are so stupid and corrupt that you can’t be trusted to make a sensible choice, so we’re going to hem you in so that you make a choice that we approve of.” Whether or not the people are making a stupid choice is really beside the point; if this is really a democracy, then they’re allowed to do that, just as they’re allowed to make stupid choices with respect to nicotine, alcohol, career plans, where they send their kids to school, where they go to church, etc. Once you allow one segment of the population to constrain the choices of another segment, then you no longer have a democracy. It may or may not be an improvement, but it’s not a democracy.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:44
I agree with your comment above about reading the bills.
When our legislators don’t read and research the bills they pass into law, we often end up with gross violations of our rights or serious waste. And we end up with economic bubbles which burst and put us into serious recessions.
Gross waste: Bailouts, Stimulus package
Economic Bubble: Revising the Community Reinvestment Act, repealing of the Glass-Steagall Act, lowering lending requirements for financial institutions.
Legislators should read, understand and research the actual bill they are to pass, not some watered down interpretation to what the bill says.
We elect and pay them to do a good job, not pass the buck to someone unseen person we didn’t elect. Sometimes it’s what’s not in the bill that causes the most harm. You can’t know about these without personally reading the actual bill, and dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s.
Legislators should be proud enough of their work that they aren’t afraid to post their legislation on the Internet before the vote.