On Tuesday, December
16, 2014, Author James Bovard published an article on USA Today, titled
"Government by CRomnibus- blind, deaf and dumb: Column." In this
article James portrays a permissive style argument. For starters, James Bovard
is an author who has written for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the
Washington Post. His intended audience for this article is for the American
public. He talks about the CRomnibus bill which is a massive spending bill of
$1 trillion dollars that would keep the government funded through the fall of
2015 with continuing resolution. Approved by the House of Representatives with
hours to spare before the deadline it only lead James to believe that members
of the Congress created 1,603 pages for this bill with no time to look over it.
Political parties are outraged because of the unnoticed provisions added into
the bill, without any warning or public hearing. A few provisions he listed was
marijuana in Washington D.C, bread in school cafeterias, sleepy truckers, and
portrait paintings in the federal offices etc. Congressmen lacked reading over
it. He explains a survey that was done in 1977, that revealed the average
congress member spends only 11 minutes a day reading at work and because of how
low the results was, there has been no follow up surveys to prove otherwise
throughout the years. James also believes that politicians think that they are
superior to the "common folk" and that we are better off even if they
have little clue what they are doing to the American public. Time only tells
how the CRomnibus bill will affect and ruin our American liberty, and how it
will gradually waste American tax dollars. Overall, I would have to agree with
James Bovard because this is nowhere near fair for the American public. If it
involves our hard earned tax dollars, and effects our everyday lives, it would
be preferred if they would go over the provisions with other political parties
and the public in order to avoid confrontation such as this.
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