re: #402 Pianobuff

You know, Walter, you may be on to something here. Imagine if, instead of focusing on jeering, etc. in these townhalls, every person took it upon themselves to become very familiar with a specific section of the bill, chapter and verse. Now imagine all of the questions posed by individuals to their elected officials at the townhall reference page numbers, exact wording, etc.

There could be a couple of effects of this approach. First, it would become stunningly apparent which officials have studied the legislation and which have not. Perhaps a way of shaming them that would be more powerful than shouting and chanting? Secondly, it would provide a very specific context for questions and answers, instead of allowing for generic talking points.

What do you think, Walter?

Of course this would be the way to go. I will give you an example. I’ve read two hundred pages of this proposal already. Why? Because I heard a talk show host say that a title and section of the proposal would allow health care workers to come into the homes of at risk pregnant mothers and tell the mothers who they are going to raise their baby.

So, I wanted to see this actual language. It appears that this is simply a codification and continuation of CURRENT government practices, now grouped into this proposal.

So, it’s not new, it’s things that the government already does in through other programs, but it is being address and included in this proposal.

Bottom line, the talk show host was fear mongering and not being honest. But, the over all powers this section and title gives the government is still a concern to me.

I think if anything, everyone who is concerned with this should try to read it. It’s not that hard, almost every section has a funding part that you can just skip over, and it’s typical double spaced, large print (LOL) legalese.

Very good idea.