A New Way for a Green Government

In honor of the, now 1000 page plus, "stimulus" (spending) bill making its way through congress I suggest a new "green governing" bill should be proposed in Congress as well. In keeping with the theme of this bill, it will be limited to one page. In fact it could be boiled down to one sentence:

"No bill written in either house of congress, or negotiated in a conference committee shall exceed 10 pages."

Think of all of the trees that could be saved by eliminating more than 990 pages from a bill like the "stimulus" bill.

Think of all of the electricity that could be saved by writing a mere 10 pages on the computer and then shutting down the computer and turning off the lights.

Think of the decrease in staffing necessary for the legislative branch that eliminating all of those pages could facilitate. They could significantly cut our taxes with the money saved by not paying all of those attorneys and typists.

Think of all of the eye strain that could be avoided by our new President having to spend late nights reading all 1000+ pages.

In all seriousness, we have Congressman and Senators voting on a bill that they could not possibly have read cover to cover. A bill that includes so many things that are anethema to the goals that were set out to be achieved. It gives the appearance of something sinister.

If bills were limited to 10 pages or less, we could assure the ability of our representatives to know exactly what they are voting for or against, and prevent the bill writers from offering pork for votes or inserting unintended provisions, because there would not be any room for them.

But most importantly, we would be decreasing the carbon footprint of our government and that is really much more important than our liberty anyway. Isn't it?