What we need are bipartisan committees that will thoroughly read every bill. That's one of the biggest problems with congress, they never read most than the opening summaries of the bills they pass. In Farenheit 9/11 Moore was interviewing a congressman asking him if he knew about the hidden clauses in the Patriot Act that severely limited americans freedom's (not as bad as certain riders* though, probably because they knew people would be interested in reading this act) and the guy shoved it off as, "Well they're too long to read every act that passes through congress."
*A hidden law that slips through a bill that no congressman would vote against.
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A man once asked the Buddha, "How does one escape the heat of the summer sun?"
And the Buddha replied, "Why not try crawling into the blazing furnace?"
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