If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a word worth?...
There's something to said for brevity. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights contains 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.
A federal directive written to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
Sometimes governments verbosity is just annoying. Sometimes it's expensive.
The House version of the national health care bill contains 1990 pages, and 400,000 words. With a 10 year cost of $894 billion, that figures out to about $2.24 million per word.
Who ever said that talk was cheap?
A federal directive written to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
Sometimes governments verbosity is just annoying. Sometimes it's expensive.
The House version of the national health care bill contains 1990 pages, and 400,000 words. With a 10 year cost of $894 billion, that figures out to about $2.24 million per word.
Who ever said that talk was cheap?
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