"We Have to Make Judgments Very Fast."

Foxnews.com Monday, Aug. 2. 2009
(A Town Hall meeting in Philadelphia)

The following is an excerpt from this article.

While supporters offered courteous applause to the officials, Sebelius didn't earn any fans when she said that if lawmakers say they don't understand the legislation voters should urge them to go back and read it.

Specter was shouted down when he said that lawmakers divide up the bills into sections and have their staffs read portions because, "We have to make judgments very fast."

Sebelius apparently is laying the responsibility of checking out legistation on the voters. Funny, I thought that is what we were trying to do. However, we shouldn't have too.
Say you hire a guy to put a new roof on your house, but every morning you look outside, and he's sitting in his truck. You have to go out and tell him to start doing his work?

Sebelius is as much as saying that our elected officials aren't going to work unless we get on their case.
Specter's comments were equally priceless. They have their staff read the bills, because they don't have time. What are they doing? And, why do they have to make judgments very fast?
Anyone will tell you that is you have a really big decision, involving life changing events, and a lot of money, you need to think things through.

Whose putting the screws to these people? Is there a time limit that we don't know about, from the Pres, the Cabinet, Alien beings? The only things historically that demanded immediate decisions were war, and natural disasters. Could it be that they just don't want any analysis of what they're doing? If it goes on for awhile, the people might actually be able to figure the whole mess out and decided for themselves what they want and don't want. Imagine that, the people, the ones that the government work for, deciding for themselves what they want and don't want.

If that continues, we might just keep our Democracy.