Mark D'Avella |
Think outside the box. |
“Size only matters in the health care debate because Republicans have turned the length of the legislation into a symbol: Big, unwieldy bill means big, overreaching government. Even bigger when you display double-spaced copies with double-wide margins and large print.
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The bill passed by the House is 319,145 words. The Senate bill is 318,512 words, shorter than the House version despite consuming more paper. Various versions of Tolstoy’s novel are 560,000 to 670,000 words. Bush’s education act tallied more than 280,000 words.
By now, the full draft of Reid’s bill that had circulated in the corridors and landed so prominently on Republican desks has been published in the Congressional Record in the official and conventional manner.
The type is small and tight. No hernias will be caused by moving this rendering of the bill around. Unfurling it on the Capitol steps would not be much of a spectacle.
It’s 209 pages.”
That about sums that up. People against the health care plan are using the oldest trick in the book, change the font, change the size, adjust the margins, and bam, your one page paper just turned into three pages. Assignment done.
Politics is no place for trickery.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_legislation_inflation
