Fools on the Hill

If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend Fools on the Hill, a new documentary featuring Jerrol LeBaron. This video enlightened me, and even raised one eyebrow in places at some practices that are considered business-as-usual in Washington, D.C. 

Mr. LeBaron took his own money and time to produce this gem with the hope of getting a bill introduced in Congress that would make it a law that our members of Congress must read all bills in their entirety before voting on them. Besides this, these bills would have to be made available online for the people of this country, so this proposed legislation  could be scrutinized first—and with time to do it. No more hanky-panky of passing a bill in the middle of the night to get it by the people and other members of Congress.

One really big eye-opener for me was the fact that many of our members of Congress do not do their own research. They ask the corporations for the information, and the corporations' lobbyists go so far as to even write the proposed legislation that could become law. This is a question all of us must ask: Do we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations?

Fools on the Hill is a documentary that may change the way you look at Congress and the people we send to Washington, D.C. to represent us.

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