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Subject: The Dirty Little Secret
 
During the Presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised he'd do somethingCongress wouldn't, post bills on the Internet for five days after passage before signingthem into law.Yet he has failed to do this for any bill, and now has formally changedabandoned his promise. It's easy to see why. Consider the AIG bonus provision in the stimulus bill. Had Obamawaited five days to sign the bill the bonus provision would likely have been exposedsooner, and Obama would have been pressured to send the bill back to Congress.Butit was the Obama Administration that wanted the provision in the first place! If the Read the Bills Act (RTBA) had been in force, however, Obama's broken promisewould be irrelevant.Under RTBA, all bills would be posted in their final form for sevendays before Congress votes on their passage. Some may say that Obama didn't personally know about the AIG bonus provision, butthat's not the point. The point is, Obama's a
party leader 
and political parties exist inorder to raise money for themselves and grant favors to those who help elect them topower. Obama may not have known about the AIG swindle, but he appointed thepeople who pressured the Democratic Congress to pass it.
 
More than lobbyists, the most corrupting influence on Congress is the President of theUnited States. This is the dirty little secret of American politics. Most provisions of billsthat increase the size, scope, and power of government aren't written by a lobbyist, oran ideologue in Congress, but rather by the Administration. This is how it worksregardless of whether a Republican or Democrat is in the White House.
 
Congress is now considering whether the federal government should take total controlof your health care. Most of the legislation they're considering wasn't written by them,but by the Obama Administration.
 
Is it so unreasonable to tell Congress to at least know what it is they're passing?
 
The 1,017-page health care bill (H.R. 3200) was introduced on July 14 and already twocommittees have approved it. It's hard to believe that any staff member of thesecommittees read the bill in full, let alone any member of the committee. It will be harderto believe that any other member of Congress will have time to read it before it comes toa vote.
 
This health-care "reform" is not from the people, it's from the Obama Administration.The least we can do is ask the representatives of the people in Congress to actuallyread the bill.Even better, however, would be to demand that they introduce and passthe Read the Bills Act. 
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MisterFrost

More on Obama Internet Fear... yes, always some boogey man going to attack us.. Let's see... who would suffer the fate of a cyber terror attack? More than likely, the usurpers in control through their 'money' scam. I can see NO reason for a gov to shut down the internet other than to disconnect the people.

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