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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
You may have missed this important announcement of a Senate hearing to be conducted tomorrow at the Capitol.
The Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D.-W.Va., will have a hearing 2:30 p.m. Thursday on "Medication and Performance Enhancing Drugs in Horse Racing" in Washington. Let's see, there's the staff time to select the witnesses, prepare for the hearing, the time spent by the Senators, more staff time to document the hearing, and the expenses to bring the chosen witnesses to Washington. Yes, witness travel expenses are paid by...you got it...you and me!
So the Senate Commerce Committee apparently thinks the health and well-being of race horses is a more important issue than...oh maybe designing some much-needed improvements to ObamaCare...or beginning to discuss changes to entitlement programs...or how about what to do about the expiring Bush tax cuts or damaging spending cuts at year-end.
Y'know, if this happened in a profit-challenged private company, when told about something like this, the boss could reasonably be expected to say, "...wasting time and money on a hearing on WHAT? Who called he hearing? Give me his name." We all know what might happen next.
Ridiculous! |
Heck, they could look at the backlog of bills they have sitting there...hey, maybe they could consider the one on illegal immigrants scamming our Treasury...the one that Reid will not allow discussion on.
Of course, it is important for bettors....I would imagine in Nevada it is a big deal, right ???
And this quote of yours
"Y'know, if this happened in a profit-challenged private company, when told about something like this, the boss could reasonably be expected to say, "...wasting time and money on a hearing on WHAT? Who called he hearing? Give me his name." We all know what might happen next." makes me shudder as we just gave these guys control over our healthcare