[Mycroft Holmes]

I've been working deliberately to hijack this thread to generally improve the level of discourse so I can do Tony Wiener. Well, not in that way.

I have spent most of my adult life writing rules to manage physical systems much less complicated than 15% of the national economy and cannot for the life of me produce an algorithm for doing just that. Each time I struggle to see some overarching unifying principle, code that, then spend the remaining 99% of the time filling in the exceptions.

And frankly, I can no longer hold it all in my mind, I have to break it up into chunks that work independently to even have a prayer of making anything that works. As I get older, the chunks get smaller.

Judging by the work product of our fine congresscritters I think that their reach has exceeded their grasp.

[muawiyah]

Congress has about two people who can DO LEGISLATIVE DRAFTS but in recent times lesser minds have been given a crack at it because they have computer software that let's them stick stuff together just like it might realistically go together.

I think they imagine this will free them from the dictat of the authentic rule writers.

All it does is free them to turn out legislative garbage.

I think Wiener went nuts trying to do ObamaKKKare.

(For outsiders ~ NO, it is not true that "any lawyer" can do this work. My experience has been that lawyers simply can't cut it ~ they are best kept away from the working people whose activities are to be described in the "instructions").