We hear all the
time about the complexity of government. Heck, I’ve written about it myself
many times. Actually, ranted and raved would be a better term for it.
BUT NOW I HAVE IT!
To eliminate the
complexity in legislation that permeates the halls of power in Austin and
Washington, D.C., all we must do is remove computers and modern copying
machines.
That’s right, make
them go back to typewriters and mimeograph machines. I mean we can let them
have electrically powered equipment, but nothing with any sort of computerized
technology. No emails, no data processors, no robo-calls, no
websites.......NOTHING!
Let’s see how many
thousand, two thousand, three thousand, and so on paged omnibus bills they come
up with then. I bet there won’t be many if they have to re-type the bill every
time there is an edit, a rewrite, an addition, an earmark, or some other
change.
NOPE, I bet we get
a lot smaller bill, less drafts, re-drafts, re-re-drafts, and so on and so on
and so on and..... well, you get the idea.
It’s simple folks
(thus the title of this piece), look at it this way, the 13th
Amendment freed the slaves in a one-page document, the 19th
Amendment gave all the women of America the right to vote in a one-page
document, and the entire Bill of Rights (amendments 1 thru 10) are on a single
page......ONE PAGE, yet we can’t hardly get a bill passed through congress
today that isn’t hundreds, if not thousands of pages long.
So how do you fix
this.... SIMPLE....for congress to use typewriters and mimeograph machines to
do the people’s business.
Simplification is
a difficult process, but this would be a huge step towards once again making
things work in the halls of government.
Hey, maybe they
should use the manual set-ups as well, would save on electricity costs!!
Later,
Bill
