Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, August 10, 2009 9:19:21 PM
If I could add a Right to the Bill of Rights it would be this
The Right to a Slow and Deliberate Government
It would read as follows:
Congress shall pass NO law that:
- Has less than 70% approval (90% if the bill requires funding of any kind)
- Is longer than 1 page, single sided, single spaced, 14 point Courier font with one inch margins (top,bottom, left and right)
- Has not been read out loud by every member of congress on CSPAN
- Has not had a 30 day waiting period from the time it was first introduced out of committee to the House floor to give the American people an opportunity to contact their representative to voice their opinion.
By enacting this, our country would be saved from the tyranny being inflicted by the thieves in the dead of night who try to push through this kind of so-called legislation. It would stop our government from making us lose sleep and basically scaring the hell out of us. Yes, that's right congress! You scare the hell out of us! And what amazes me even more is that you are so blinded by power and corruption that can't see why! You don't think we should be scared when:
- Bills are not measured in pages, but by the POUND.
- You think that everything in that bill is "good for America"?
- Bills cannot be read and understood even by your own lawyers
- Bills are being pushed through committee and through congress at LIGHT SPEED like they have some sort of expiration date on them.
- Common citizens (grandmas and grandpas even) are referred to by you as "angry mobs"
- sounds like you are 2 seconds from pressing the panic button and sending in the National Guard (or ACORN)
- Members of the Administration are on the record for supporting things such as:
- rationing health care for the young and old and disabled..
- assisted suicide
- Obama himself has said in the near past, that he wants America to "eventually" have single-payer (ie taxpayer) system
- it might take 10,15 or 20 years but we will get there (his words... not mine)
- The CBO places the cost of this bill at 1.7 TRILLION DOLLARS over the next 10 years
- the even worse news is that is probably a BEST CASE figure and the real cost will be 2 or 3 times that figure
- Government run healthcare has destroyed every other country's economy that has tried to do it (but of course that won't happen to us)
These are the truths that congress must confront. These fears are as REAL as the blood pumping through my veins.
Another Right I would introduce is:
The Right to NOT BE AFRAID of the government.
(but this is already covered by the 2nd Amendment)
As Thomas Jefferson once said, "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty"