Housing and Senate Bill Soups

Broadsided, now there is an appropriate term. That is what happens when you're unexpectedly hit from the side. In the world of politics, this is happening more, and more, to the good citizens of this country.

They are being bamboozled and broadsided by a long list of Senate bills or House of Representative bills acts or other legislative soup. Soup is what you have when you toss in a whole bunch of ingredients and stir it together. Soup is what these bills are.

The bills sound great by title. Wow, pass that one, quick! Then you try to read these books that are several hundred pages long and you find a whole array of goodies that are not mentioned in the title and are not even in the same category (sometimes).

It's atrocious. I am sick of sending e-mails and faxes to try to stop some seemingly wonderful bill that is full of (unannounced and unsuspected) insanities being forced upon us.

This is so out of control that two recent bills were more than 800 pages long and there is now a bill to force the politicians to read the bills, because they don't! They're huge, no big surprise there! Does anyone else think that this is nuts?

Let's turn the tables and send e-mails, letters, faxes and phone calls to our Senators, Congressmen, the Governator, the mayor, our council (future congress), demanding that all Senate bills and House bills, any legislative proposals (for every echelon of government), contain only one subject and that no bill is considered if it is longer than 20 pages.

If there is only one subject how many pages does it need?