truebluegreen (3,589 posts)
7. As to your second question, for a law as sweeping as the ACA to function
it has to revise every single statute it impacts. That said, I have doubts about your "11 billion words" talking point, given that 1 billion seconds is more than 31 years, and 11 billion seconds is 348.576411 years. I wonder how long it takes to "count" to 11 billion.
But that would certainly explain why "nobody read it.
Response to truebluegreen (Reply #7)
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 12:45 PM
JoePhilly (18,038 posts)
11. The bill has ~1990 pages, large font, large margins ... 11 billion words, hardly.
JoePhilly (18,038 posts)
10. I've read the ACA ... that word count is nonsense and only a fool would believe it.
This is why you idiots can't make it in the world and why you make life dangerous for the rest of us.
The congressman in question is Ralph Hall who has been in office since 1981. He's hardly a teabagger. He also wasn't talking about the bill it's self. He was talking about the added 20,000 pages of regulations. He read off the number of words that were added to the ACA
and NOT voted on.The count in words is 11,588,000,000.
All this information has been out there for months. I just can't believe the so called "smarter people" who are "informed" don't know that.