We Ought To Know What We Are Doing ... Ought We Not?

 

I have written before about our 9% Approval Rating Congress not knowing what they are doing. This posting is a bit of a takeoff on the “not knowing” part of the prior sentence and attempts to zero in on...

What they don’t know even though it is right in front of them.

I just read a news article in my newspaper and I did not get beyond the first line when I knew I was looking at the makings of a Foolishness...Or Is It? commentary.

It is not important what the actual article itself was about. If I got into the article’s content, some of you might take issue with my political leanings and the Smartfella? definitely has political leanings. He just does not write about his leanings in his blog for fear of being attacked by people who think they are smarter than he is smart. Everyone is entitled to his own stupid opinion and that definitely includes me.

The first line of the article says,

A little-noticed provision in the annual defense-spending bill...”

There it is... “little-noticed”! Why is it little-noticed? This brings up several questions...

• Are the bills so big that our congress does not or cannot know what is in them?
• Are the bills so confusing that our congress does not or cannot know what is in them?
• Is our congress not reading these bills?
• Who is writing these bills?

Part of the answer is that the bills are too long and too complicated to be understood, even if they were being read, but that does not make me feel one bit better. Do you feel one bit better?

Would I kid u?