Jewish World Review August 18, 2009 28 Menachem-Av 5769
Thomas Sowell
There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first 6 months of a new administration.
The fact that they got away with it before, with the "stimulus" bill, may have led them to believe that they could get away with it again.
But the first bill simply spent hundreds of billions of dollars. The current "health care" bill threatens to take life-and-death decisions out of the hands of individuals and their doctors, transferring those decisions to Washington bureaucrats...
This is the first of a multi-part series. I'll be posting each a day apart and giving my comments at the end of the series. Dr. Sowell is a brilliant economist and is a Fellow at The Hoover Institute at Stanford. I highly recommend his articles and books.
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