Re: Obamacare Questions

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:04:35 -0500, BlueBrooke wrote:

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:46:30 -0700, Bamboozled <Bambooze@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Perhaps the White House can provide answers to questions that the
members of congress cannot provide because congress hasn't had time to
read the 1000 plus pages of the health care proposals.

Of all of your points, this one bothers me the most. The people who
will be foisting this program on the rest of us, and won't be affected
by it, don't really know what they're voting for. "Haven't had the
time" isn't a good excuse, to my mind. Isn't that *their job?*

Hell no. Their job is to pass legislation - not to READ it.
.

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