[lbo-talk] The Bush Re-Election Juggernaut

[Jon Johanning]

I'm not a health-care expert, and I can't understand the analyses of 
this bill the experts are putting out. To me, that's just the problem. 
More and more legislation these days is getting so complex, with a 
zillion different lobbyists and industries bribing legislators to stick 
their goodies into it, that nobody knows what the final result will be. 
Plus, in the case of this bill, the Demos didn't even get a chance to 
read the whole thing before they were forced to vote on it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in a situation like this, representative 
democracy breaks down completely. If the legislators can't understand 
what they're voting on, what's the point of voting?

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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After the Buddha died, people still kept pointing to his shadow in a 
cave for centuries—an  enormous, dreadful shadow. God is dead: but the 
way people are, there may be, for millennia, caves in which his shadow 
is still pointed to. — And we — we must still overcome his shadow!
—Friedrich Nietzsche