If you are as confused as I am about this new bill that increases our debt ceiling and is supposed to save the country from defaulting on its debts, it’s probably because we are getting conflicting reports about what’s in it. And if you scan down the text of the bill, you can see that it was not written so that the average individual could understand it. Indeed, I wish that all such laws passed by Congress would be accompanied by a simplified translation into plain English that the average citizen could understand.

Like so many of these laws crafted by congressional staffers, they are written in a kind of Washington legalese meant to make it impossible for ordinary folk to know what’s in them. For example, Nancy Pelosi said that they had to pass the Obama healthcare bill so that we could find out what was in it. Well, I have news. It’s just as impossible to know what’s in it after it’s been passed. Even the title of the law is meant to deceive the average citizen. Its official title is: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Of course it’s nothing of the kind. It is the Federal Takeover of Healthcare Act. It passed the Democrat-controlled Senate on December 24, 2009. The Democrat-controlled House passed it on March 21, 2010, and our Socialist-in-Chief signed it into law on March 23, 2010. The first task of a new Tea Party Congress and White House in 2012 must be to repeal it.

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