I'm talking about the people who identify as democrats not the politicians here. I know the current democrats never have nor never will do such a thing, which is why I am all for replacing them for those who will based on the popular support and dire need for such actions.
I take it that you have never heard of welfare programs and the minimum wage, then.
I think it was six hours, but...
He's talking about the Dems not doing universal programs, which he's basically correct about though it seems irrelevant to the conversation.
Wait, is it words or pages?
Words.
5000 pages sounds really long, but 5000 words sounds way too short.
Which is how the U.S. government works. Anything actually beneficial to come out of any government actions are only incidental to what they are actually trying to do, which is screw over the American people and line their own pockets. This is because not a single one of the politicians gives a crap about the American people at all, much less doing their actual jobs of improving the country. They're all hopelessly corrupt to every last man and woman at all levels of government and the whole system is designed to ensure that this will always be the case.
It's a tactic as old as the government itself. Take a bunch of things nobody wants designed to screw everybody over and line the pockets of the politicians, lump them together with the things people actually want, emphasize the latter while downplaying the former, and vote on it all as one thing. This is because they know that doing what they should and splitting all this into separate bills and voting on them would result in the screwing everybody over and lining their pockets part to be shut down immediately. By lumping the bad with the good, they turn what should be a cut and dry "HA HA HA. No." into a big political issue where you're a "monster" trying to destroy America for the crime of simply seeing the bill for what it is.
Yep, fair enough, you're right, 6000 pages. Wowsers.5000 pages sounds really long, but 5000 words sounds way too short.
I think it actually is pages.
The Second Stimulus Package: Here’s What’s Included (Published 2020)
Smaller stimulus checks, targeted aid for small businesses, and funding to buy and distribute vaccines are among the main components of the latest pandemic relief package.www.nytimes.com
It's pages, although the pages are not exactly 12 point single-spaced novel-format. Perhaps on account of the poor eyesight of some members of Congress? Or so that many people can look at the same page at once? I don't know.
Spending bills are lists of concrete, independent things, not a program for approaching an issue which needs to be generally comprehensible to lawyers and judges and accountants (and possibly even people who want to follow the law), so I don't think it's weird that they'd be longer.
With what seems to be an average of ~200 words a page, that comes to 1 118 600 words. With your reading/analyzing speed of ~41 words/min (may not be an accurate number, but taken from 5000/2 hours) it would take 454 hours to read the whole thing, or 19 straight days. Even if you read at 10x the speed you still couldn't get through the whole thing in less than 24 hours. In order to make it though it in 6 hours you'd need to read 3107 words/min or 15 1/2 pages a minute.
Cut out that both sides bullshit. Its wrong and its poison to our political system.
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Apparently we need to elect speed-readers to Congress.
That infographic is nice, but what is being described is the normal process of our legislative bodies, not criminal behavior, so number of indictments and so on is perfectly irrelevant.
Just to expand on this for illustrative purposes:
I'm surprised that War and Peace is shorter than those two books... It certainly felt longer. The audiobook is like 163 hours
It is longer - much longer. The font size in most out of copyright classics is very small compared to modern books.
You do realize that the infographic goes with the article I linked after it, right?
