While I share your fear and disgust regarding this bill as it stands now, we have to be very careful not to accept everything we read about the bill at face value. I know you would not do that, but other well-meaning people do.
I have received countless e-mails detailing the horrors of this bill, and yet, upon reading it, I often recognize that some interpretations are off the mark.
There is so much 'wiggle room' and ambiguity in the two hundred or so pages that I've read so far that, if you are on one end of the political spectrum, it appears very detailed but completely 'innocent'. Yet, if you're on the other end, there is enough grey area that a certain interpretation can allow for massive tyrannical maneuvers and removal of many of our basic liberties. Of course, I'm falling on the side of the latter.
But, at the same time, some of the claims by 'conservative' bloggers are a bit off the deep end, and we do ourselves a disservice by exaggerating that which needs no exaggeration in order to qualify as a legislative abomination.
Some of the alarmist claims really do draw some conclusions that are much too subjective. And yet a few others, although not spelled out in black and white in the bill, are examples of that 'grey area' I mentioned which, in the wrong hands (such as this administration and congress), could turn out to be the nightmare they predict. But some anti-bill analysts are being very generous in the interpretations they are allowing themselves.
The entire bill (thus far) is an enormous can of worms. And the one thing that is without doubt is that ninety percent of what they are legislating is entirely unconstitutional -- pushing the government into our private finances, our private healthcare decisions, the policies of our employers, etc. Our Founders must be reeling.
I’ve saved the listing in your post to go over when I have the time to compare it with what I have read. Thanks for providing it. :)
You stay safe and well too, FRiend!
~ joanie
Read all 1017 pages of the house bill , via a pdf document......some I do not understand due polidiot little gator BS’ese. The email came from a trusted source.