More or less a microcosm of how things work, with the added detail that this Senator also claimed not to know a provision drastically enriching him personally had been added to the bill.
Symptoms of a failing practice of great democratic ideals that can drive a society to live forever, if the application does not fall far from perfection🤔
Law, it's not the kind of thing they teach in High school, but I think they should. Everyone pays tax yet I have not met a single human being that can quote/recite the entire tax code. Maybe Robo Lawyer will be a reality soon as it's not humanly possible to memorize the entire legal system and it's history, but a database has no trouble doing this. In some places a Law database already exists and can be accessed for a fee.
So he is voting on it without reading it, sounds like 98% of social media interactions to me.
We need to do something to curb this growing TL;DR mentality so many people have. When you talk to average Americans, they have opinions, and they'll tell you all about them, but if you ask where they found the information to build them usually the response is "I don't read or watch the news, I get my media from my friends/imgur/reddit/facebook". That isn't inherently a bad thing, but there has to be some kind of encouragement to actually go look at the data yourself (and I don't just mean a bar graph) and make up your mind.
So many people seem tired of being spoon-fed, but if you ask them to feed themselves, their response is usually "I'm busy and don't have time for that."
Reeks of "We have to pass this bill to see what's in it" mentality. Way too much "my side has to win" thinking and self serving behavior on all sides of our government.
Symptoms of a failing practice of great democratic ideals that can drive a society to live forever, if the application does not fall far from perfection🤔
Law, it's not the kind of thing they teach in High school, but I think they should. Everyone pays tax yet I have not met a single human being that can quote/recite the entire tax code. Maybe Robo Lawyer will be a reality soon as it's not humanly possible to memorize the entire legal system and it's history, but a database has no trouble doing this. In some places a Law database already exists and can be accessed for a fee.
So he is voting on it without reading it, sounds like 98% of social media interactions to me.
We need to do something to curb this growing TL;DR mentality so many people have. When you talk to average Americans, they have opinions, and they'll tell you all about them, but if you ask where they found the information to build them usually the response is "I don't read or watch the news, I get my media from my friends/imgur/reddit/facebook". That isn't inherently a bad thing, but there has to be some kind of encouragement to actually go look at the data yourself (and I don't just mean a bar graph) and make up your mind.
So many people seem tired of being spoon-fed, but if you ask them to feed themselves, their response is usually "I'm busy and don't have time for that."
I am here to lead, not to read! :))
@davidpakman that is politics for us all. At least, We all have the right to vote but ignorance shouldn't be involve while doing so.
Trump says, " tax bill Christmas present for middle class". Yeah we going to need it when milk hits $5 a gallon.
Is that really possible?
Yeah, the obscure reality we live in at the moment! Ts, ts, ts...
Reeks of "We have to pass this bill to see what's in it" mentality. Way too much "my side has to win" thinking and self serving behavior on all sides of our government.
really really really !
I really hate living in a world where rich greedy people try to screw over the poor, its sad, it really is.