THE SEVEN ELEMENT PLAN FOR GENERAL ECONOMIC REFORM — page 2
LAW, LANGUAGE AND LOBBYING
Reform of Law, Language and Lobbying is not listed as an element of the plan. Instead it is presented here as on going elementary reform required by the natural growth of "weeds" that are mortal enemies of any plan. The more we define the nature of the problem that laws and regulations address, the more difficult it becomes to be brief and precise in presenting our case.
As people work in the world of business and in their private life (wherein the new generation is coached to improve on all that has gone before,) we are expected to find words and sentences to help not hinder these task. Yet, we find ourselves in the "weeds" of the law, at the mercy of language and lobbyists—the band of lawyers and experts our Constitution has not yet found a way to handle.
Lobbyists live for money, and money reform may dull their power. They also live for the "weeds" they grow that entangle our propellers—as we try to leave the swamp for open waters leading to new and unspoiled destinations we long to reach.
In the art of communication by way of the movies, condensation of language is all important. A trial that ran for a month is condensed to minutes before our eyes. And we know more of its meaning in minutes than the court ever knew in the years it conducted what passes for law in our lives.
How we will eventually condense the law to an efficient tool for everyday use is beyond us at the moment. We cannot ask lawmakers to define money, debt, price, tax and accountability so that they, themselves, can comply with the law they make. We cannot ask them to do it because they do not know how. The science of benevolent government remains in its infancy. In this plan we are forced to stay as brief as we can and pray for the day when money grows on trees and words mean what they say.