Recently, the Senate passed their version of the so called “credit card overhaul” bill. If passed into law the bill would limit a practice called “universal default”, restrict the ability of those under 21 to get a card, prevent high "over limit" fees, and of course, allow concealed guns into national parks....
Wait, WHAT!? Which of these doesn't belong? The relationship between gun rights and credit cards escapes me. Despite my support of gun rights and my condemnation of restricting the rights of private companies, the methods used to get this gun legislation passed is ludicrous.
Disturbingly, the practice of tucking away unpopular (and unrelated) provisions in popular bills is nothing new. In the Iraq War Supplemental Funding Bill there was a provision to provide amnesty to illegal immigrant farm workers. In 2006 a bill was signed to help prevent terrorists from sneaking a nuclear, chemical or germ weapon into the United States in the shipping containers that enter the U.S. each year. The bill also included a provision to strengthen laws that forbid most online gambling. Yes, these little nuggets are scattered throughout any and every bill that goes through Congress.
The fact that our government unabashedly uses this technique for passing unpopular bills ought to be outrageous and shocking to us as citizens, and yet here we are. We sit back and and apathetically shrug it off saying "well there's nothing I can do about it". Wasn't our government founded on the basis that we SHOULD be able to do something about it? If the citizens can't stop the most OBVIOUS breeches in etiquette in goverment, it's got to make you wonder what's going on behind closed doors.
This is not a Republican issue. This is not a democratic issue. This is a GOVERNMENT issue. We're so busy pointing fingers at each other that we don't take the time to look up and see the the culprit is standing there in broad daylight laughing at us.
So, in conclusion, stop beind dip shits. Do something.
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