The HR proposed health care bill, that 1000 page 'nightmare' and 'socialist' proposal of 'government take-over' is here if you care to read it. "It is this high," John 'Man-Tan' Boehner gestured, as if its thickness was somehow an authentic measure of the righteousness of legislation. Perhaps those on the right of the political scale don't like to read. Do we measure the thickness of bills to determine their worth? Anyone know the thickness of the Terri Schiavo Life-Support Bill? As usual, it's always amusing on the right side of things.
One thousand eighteen pages! A Dostoyevsky novel, for chrissake! Government bureaucracy! More government intrusion in our lives! Just look at how the government runs [fill in]! Mr. Boehner/Boner shakes his head.
What is that Shakespearian line about protesting too much?
Way too much.
The proposed legislation that I linked above is 1018 PDF pages which means that it is really only about 200 normal reading pages. Boner's reading dyslexia problem. Two hundred- a short pulp novel.
Pages 1-8 is the Table of Contents. Pages 9 - 14 are definitions. The actual proposal begins after that, so Mr. Boner's 'this high' has been reduced to 'this high.'
The document is easy-to-follow with large font titles for the various sections: TITLE I—PROTECTIONS AND STANDARDS FOR QUALIFIED HEALTH BENEFITS PLANS
This should help the poorer readers follow along quite nicely.Another easy-reader aid that Mr. Boner might like is the use of the outline format. The document uses numbers [1. 2. 3.] and letters [A. B. C.] and small letters [a. b. c. ] as well as the [i ii iii] characters to help the reader understand the steps as they unfold. Did Mr. Boner sleep through the outlining lesson in high school?
"Whereas," said Mr. Boner, "is used 500 times!" Well, seems to me that the use of repetitive words is an early-reader style used by kindergarden book authors and greatly reduces the angst of having to learn new words. I think Mr. Boner belongs in the 'yellow birds' group. That's the remedial group, you know.
I wonder if Mr. Boner is just too lazy to read the entire document? You know, just like those book reports to the class when you knew the kid hadn't read the whole book. "You'll have to read the rest of the book to find out how it ends!" Like you didn't.
My daughter-in-law is today back at school teaching remedial reading to the kindergarten children who didn't achieve all of the outcomes they were required. Too bad Mr. Boner lives in the Cincinnati area, otherwise he could have audited her classes here in Toledo.
