Tag: Federal Government

House Passes Health Care Reform Bill

I’ve started on a new reading project tonight; the entire health care reform bill as just passed by our House of Grift-resentatives. I figure since they haven’t read it, I might as well. At somewhere (is anybody really sure?) between 4 and 6 thousand pages, I should be at if for a couple weeks, anyway.

Quotes of note

George Washington, wisely noted: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquent; it is force, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” Wonder what George, and Thomas, and Patrick, and John, and Ben and the other Founding Fathers of this country would think of how the Federal Government is continually encroaching

A Perfect 10

In fact, after the protection of the borders, the raising and collecting of taxes, and controlling immigration, the Federal Government doesn't have legal leeway to do much else according to the Constitution. The cynic in me at this point says, "one outta three ain't bad."