Posted on 07/19/2009 2:56:26 PM PDT by libertarian27
When the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday passed its version of Obamacare, the President, with Sen. Dodd (D. Ct.) standing at his side, applauded the committee’s effort. Our President explained that the committee had “engaged” in 50 hours of debate before passing the bill. All in attendance at this press conference were beaming with joy, and, of course, applauding.
This “photo op” reminded me of the folks who stand on the dais at the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange every day. Even when the market is down over 400 points, when the closing bell sounds, they all smile broadly, and, of course, applaud.
Looking beyond the smiles and clapping hands, I decided to do some math. Fifty hours of debate equates to 180,000 seconds of debate. As the cost of Obamacare is pegged at $1 trillion dollars (actually, it’s far more, but, as they say, at that point, whose counting), that means the Senate committee spent $5 million for every second of debate.
Realizing how redicuously insignifant the 50 hour debate was using the “dollars spent per second” standard, I decided I should use another approach to explain the “smiles and applauding” of the photo op.
Rounding it off, the health care proposal is 1000 pages long. A fifty hour “debate” means that Sen. Dodd’s committee actually spent about 3 minutes per page in the “debate”. Personally, I doubt that a page could be both read and comprehended in 3 minutes, much less debated. So, that standard, too, doesn’t make much sense, and certainly doesn’t explain the smiles and applause.
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Just amazing!
Remember these idiots! I can only hope we bring them all to justice for crimes against the American people!
Remember these idiots! I can only hope we bring them all to justice for crimes against the American people!
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