re: #283 Daniel Ballard

Where did you get the idea I was against reading bills?

I think legislation gets rushed through, but I don’t think that it’s because it’s a knee-jerk reaction. I think most legislation rushed-through was already written and was awaiting its chance to get shoved in.

With more time to examine the legislation, the public can help ferret out wasteful spending, sneaky provisions that were inserted by well-connected special interests and other problematic provisions.

Wait, the public? What percentage of the public do you think is conversant at all with pretty much any bill? Even after months and months and months of debate on the health care bill, the public was ignorant of its most basic foundations.