Remove Elected Officials that Vote on Bills They Haven't Read

I cannot understand why the conversation and outrage over politicians voting on bills they have not read has so quickly gone away. We are now facing another 2,074 page health care bill coming out of the Senate that is to be voted on possibly by Saturday for open debate. Come on! If you haven't read the bill and you don't know what's in it, how can you with a clear conscience and any level of integrity vote? Fair enough to vote on opening it up for debate I suppose but to even have a meaningful debate the bill needs to be read by all involved. What scares the hell out of me about this is this practice appears to be the standard and not the exception. Maybe that's why this has been such a short lived issue. Those of us who have obviously been totally naive about the whole process look like blithering idiots because we have assumed all these years the people we have elected and put into office, trusting them to do our will and protect our rights, don't even read legislation before voting. I'm sorry and I will certainly own my responsibility for being so openly stupid but I had more faith in our system of government than that. No wonder the government can't effectively run any of the programs they are responsible for. We have a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians making decisions on issues they have not even a superficial understanding of let alone any real deep appreciation or understanding of because they just vote and act blindly. I cannot believe this! I can imagine what would happen in the world of private industry if a high level manager for a large corporation was found to be making decisions from a totally uninformed platform. They would be run out of the company on a rail and immediately. They would never work at that level again in any organization. So why not the same for our elected officials? We need to demand our elected officials read every single bill from start to finish before they ever enter a vote. We need to, in every district, obtain voting records and directly ask our representatives if they read every bill for which they voted. Any not read response with a subsequent vote should result in being voted out of office in the next cycle.

I will take full responsibility for my own stupidity. I know better than to assume anything and especially when it comes to the government and our elected officials. I will accept this as a valuable learning experience. Now I have an even better idea of what other questions to ask my government officials when I am trying to make an informed and educated decision about who I want to represent me in Washington. These health reform bills simply do not rise the level needing to be rushed through Congress as if it were an emergency war bill or something absolutely necessary to be voted on immediately for our national security. Even at that, bills should be read, understood and fully comprehended before any vote is registered by any politician. What is the rush? The rush is simple in my mind. The Democrats and the Administration want to cram these bills down our throats before we have an opportunity to fully understand and comprehend their content. They know the public would revolt if we had full and honest disclosure. Stop the nonsense and stop allowing our representatives to enact legislation that no one really knows what is included in the legislation.

It's our government and the politicians work for us. I do not want any one representing me that has no idea what they are voting for when casting a vote on any kind of legislation. We have to hold our representatives accountable! Start asking today what bills your representatives have voted on without reading. Give our representatives a loud and clear message we will no longer sit back and allow them to make blind, uninformed, uneducated votes. Know what you are voting on or stop the process! We need to put this out to the politicians before we even elect them: Before voting for you we expect and demand you read every bit of legislation before you ever cast a vote! How else can we trust your decisions and rely on you to represent our best interests as citizens? I think every single elected official needs a very strong reminder that they work for us. We hire them and we can just as easily fire them. If your representatives do not want to agree to these terms of employment, fire them as quickly as possible. We all need to step up and own our responsibilities in our government. Only then will our elected officials take us seriously and begin to be accountable.