“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.”
I first saw this in a frame on an attorney’s office in East Dundee in 1972.
The attorney had sent his new assistant Boyd Gates for assistance in appealing his hilltop home’s real estate assessment.
The quote was taken from a New York State Judge’s decision, which I searched for, but could not find.
Instead I found this article, which doesn’t mention the Judge’s decision, but traces it back to Bismark.
In any event, the sausage analogy came to mind when I read this nugget found in the new Covid-19 relief bill:
5,593 pages.
Longest bill in congressional history.
When I was in the Illinois House, I would look at every page of the annual appropriation bills for really weird stuff that had been added to get someone’s vote.
The pork or “member initiatives,” as it was later called, was truly incredible.
And, coincidentally, the email “Word of the Day” says today’s is “farrago:”
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Latin, mid 17th century
“A confused mixture.”
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Kentucky Republican [Rand Paul] further explained the country’s fiscal situation, noting the nation brought in $3.3 trillion last year and spent $6.6 trillion. The deficit was a “record-busting $3.3 trillion.”
The Stimulus Bill:
The gov’t closes the economy. You lose your job. You face eviction.
$600 for all your troubles.
Meanwhile they send:
$453 million to Ukraine, WTF?
$135 million to Burma
$85.5 million to Cambodia
$1.4 billion for “Asia Reassurance Initiative Act”
$130 million to Nepal
$40 million for the Kennedy Center, and funding to discourage teenagers from drinking and hooking up.
$193 million for federal HIV/AIDS workers to buy cars and car insurance overseas, and a feminist museum.
The median household income is $56,516.
The average federal employee makes $87,312.
Capitalism isn’t the problem, big government is.
From what I’ve been able to glean, the origin of the quote is often misattributed to Otto Von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor of Germany.
However, its earliest known use appears to be in The Daily Cleveland Herald, March 29, 1869, quoting the lawyer-poet John Godfrey Saxe that “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Godfrey_Saxe
Israel was trending on Twitter yesterday.
The internet says the COVID bill gives 500 million to Israel.
This is so awful it’s enough to throw you into depression (monetary and emotional)
Ridiculous. Where is the transparency that Democrats are always claiming they practice. A 5,000 page bill needs days to read, digest, analyze and have discussions in hearings in Congress.
What is needed is a formula or algorithm that prescribes a minimum number of days between introduction of a bill and a vote on it. The formula would count every word, every dollar amount in a bill, total these up and use a multiplier to calculate the amount of days after the introduction of a bill until a vote is taken.
Also what is needed for every bill introduced in Congress is to document the names of all persons, their titles, their Departments, etc who contributed to the drafting and writing of every part of the bill. These people need to be held accountable.
Recall that the evil and wretched Pelosi gave little time for Congress to digest the massive ACA Obamacare bill. She told Congress to “pass the bill to find out what is in it”.
The US will truly be on the path to a banana republic, a socialist/communist nation if the evil Democrats gain control of the Senate on Jan 5, 2021 in Georgia.
More of the same. Representatives had less than 6 hours to read.
Can you read The Stand or War and Peace 6 times in 6hours?
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Oh I’m sure there was about a gadrillion add ons to this…
handing the free cheese just a drop in the bucket ..
for the common man, its all the FREE cheese stuff that will be given away that will cost US!
Leave it to the SWAMP they know how to rig…
I believe the Senate voted 92-6 in favor of the stimulus bill.
Last I checked, Republicans controlled the Senate.
We need to pass this bill so we can see what’s in it – ala Pelucy.
When Prez Trump gave us the tax cuts was it something akin to $2500?
But according to Pelucy it was just CRUMBS! (Hand brushing aside imagined here)
So now her pushing thru $600 is supposed to be some big deal?
Remember if you like your Doctor, you can keep your Doctor.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
Deplorable!
Oh, that’s reserved for a certain group of Americans.
Lobbyists are to blame
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/22/congress-tax-breaks-stimulus/
You can search the pork Bill here
https://www.axios.com/stimulus-checks-congress-deal-33e713ae-501e-484b-9cea-1a77c39d32e7.html
There’s a lot of misinformation out there on this spending package… but this bill was NOT just a “COVID-19 relief bill” – it was a combination of numerous spending bills.
So, this Pakistan money didn’t actually have anything to do with the COVID relief portion of the bill.
Feel free to take issue with the different spending provisions in the legislation, but at least try to do it accurately.
It surely was a Christmas tree bill.
“There’s a lot of misinformation out there on this spending package… but this bill was NOT just a “COVID-19 relief bill” – it was a combination of numerous spending bills.”
Perfect example however of what is wrong with how Congress does things. They take a ton of garbage put it into one bill and no one really even knows what is in there. Covid relief should be its own separate bill. We all know that anyone who voted against this bill would be accused of being against covid relief and that is the point. They use relief as cover to push through the rest of the garbage. Here is an idea, why don’t we suspend all foreign aid until covid is over and use the money to help Americans. Not a single penny should be going to help other countries when we are in such need ourselves.
Oh and $600 of my own money back is an insult.
Alabama makes $ hanging out in lavatories.
How does he do this?