Actually the “cap & Trade” energy bill passed behind the mediastorm over the death of a famous child molester Michael Jackson was 1200 pages with a 300-page amendment.
Nobody in the House of Representatives read the thing. they all voted on it based on general ideas as to what they THOUGHT was in it, or what they were TOLD was in it, or even what they HOPED was in it. but nobody has seen the whole thing, at least before the voting was over.
That’s how much law is made these days. What’s even worse is that if it passes the Senate and is signed into law, then that 1500 pages will be handed to a segment of government that is essentially immune to interference by the voting public. We’re talking about the Federal bureaucracy, and they can take 1500 pages of new law and turn it into 15 THOUSAND pages of Federal regulation, thus insuring a huge taxpayer supported bureaucracy and the further generation of hordes of lawyers to interpret the unintelligible morass.
This, of course, will be looked upon by the Obamites as “job creation”. And those will be “good” jobs: high pay, full bennies, secure, because the last lights to go out when America dies will likely be the lights in a bureaucrat’s office.
Those costs, of course, are coming out of my pocket, directly in the form of taxes to support the bureaucracy, and indirectly as “cap & trade” forces companies to buy the right to provide what we need for everyday life.
How miserable does a country have to get before there are politicians hanging from lightpoles?
There are 566 lamp posts along Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and Capitol Hill. Does this mean anything to anyone?
You understand the master plan, too. We will be buried under federal regulations by faceless bureaucrats. There will be no debate. There will be no publicity. One day there will be an obscure reference in the Federal Register for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Comments will be requested. None will be forthcoming because no one will be aware of it. Several months later, a new regulation will emerge. That’s why BHO wants the EPA to regulate CO2. That’s why he wants the FDA to regulate tobacco.