Is This "Change" and "Transparency"?

So is this how things are going to happen now?

For those of you that didn't know, or weren't paying attention...the committee in charge of the 'compromise' version of the Stimulus Package (aka- Spending Package) finished it's work on Thursday. The Democrats in the Congress pledged that everyone would have 48 hours to read/and review the bill before voting on it. the bill was not made available until nearly Midnight Friday...in PAPER format! Voting began in the House at 9am Friday, and it was shoved through the Senate Friday night. President Obama pledged that there would be 5 days between the time the bill was voted on, and when he would sign it. He is pledging to sign it Monday (President's Day).

If this is such a good bill, why the rush to shove it through the Congress and get it signed? Do you realize that NONE of those voting on this bill even had a chance to READ it??? The bill is 1,071 pages- one would have to have read around 130 pages an hour...FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT...to get through it all. And that is not taking into account being able to comprehend it either.

Was it because House Speaker Pelosi had to get this done so she could take her European vacation? Was it because that the Democrats KNEW that the longer they waited, the more Americans would be outraged at what this bill contains?

Let's get one thing straight- this is no 'Economic Stimulus' bill...this is spending- plain and simple. In the short term, it MAY provide a little help, but in the long term, it is going to have a disastrous effect on out nation- so much so that we may not be able to fix it.

I did not take the time to call my elected representatives and complain. I should have (not that it would've done any good telling my Democratic Senators anything, but...) but I am going to call them now- and tell them that they had better be ready to deal with the consequences of this action.