"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776.
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson
And THAT'S a more important question than any concerning the mere size of the legislation.
WHERE'S THE AUTHORIZATION IN THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE FIRST DAMNED WORD OF IT!
What they are doing is not right, at all. They will vote on these ideas without even reading what is in there and without listening to the voice of the people who will be financing this atrocity.
And THAT'S a more important question than any concerning the mere size of the legislation.
WHERE'S THE AUTHORIZATION IN THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE FIRST DAMNED WORD OF IT!
What they are doing is not right, at all. They will vote on these ideas without even reading what is in there and without listening to the voice of the people who will be financing this atrocity.