When the music stops who will be left without a chair?

[Steverino]

Over 1,000 pages contained in that bill and Obama is rushing to get this bill passed before anyone has had full measure to read/review. This is as close to tax without representation in this modern age as I have seen. Downright scary...

[Rapier]

Steve,
Even if you are the most liberal person in this country, what happened should scare the crap out of you. Congress voting on (in mass) and passing a bill without ever reading what was in it. That is how people get to visit places like Dachau.

There is at least one provision that the senate stuck in at the last minute, a records keeping law that will affect your medical care. That law gives the feds control over your medical treatment, ala Britain or Canada and creates a new huge federal medical gang. Now it is just for information, without penalty, for non-compliance. But, hospitals and doctors have a license to practice and coercion is very simple. The effect of that law will be to determine what procedures are allowed based on expense. If you are 26 a transplant is not too expensive, but if you are over 50 a transplant is way to expensive. The camel has his nose under the tent.
Best,
Ed

[Skinny Shooter]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02152009...sh__155255.htm

WHAT'S THE RUSH?
"URGENT" $TIMULUS ON HOLD FOR BAM'S WEEKEND OFF

After pushing Congress for weeks to hurry up and pass the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, President Obama promptly took off for a three-day holiday getaway. Obama arrived at his home in Chicago on Friday, and treated wife Michelle to a Valentine's Day dinner downtown last night. The couple was spotted leaving upscale Table Fifty-Two, which specializes in Southern cuisine, with the first lady toting what appeared to be a doggie bag.

The president plans to spend the Presidents' Day weekend in the Windy City, and is not expected to sign the bill until Tuesday, when he travels to Denver to discuss his economic plan.

Both the House and Senate passed the bill Friday night.

The push to get the bill through before the holiday weekend was so frantic, members of Congress didn't have a chance to read all 1,071 pages of the document before they could vote.

"In a perfect world it would have been nice to have had more time to process it," said Ilan Kayatsky, a spokesman for Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).

Meanwhile, Gov. Paterson called yesterday for fiscal restraint with the massive influx of federal aid. His budget office estimated that New York will receive $24.6 billion over the next two years, $4 billion more than first believed.