Quote Originally Posted by Omnius Deus View Post
Okay, why are these added into a bail out plan that was 3 pages long and then extended to over 400 pages? I know its horrible to say, but usually I can't understand bills because they're put in legal terms and I need a lawyer to tell me what they're actually saying or what the bill means.
Same reason people making Windows utilize programming languages the average user doesn't understand. You don't need to know C to use a computer, but if you want to change how it operates that's somewhat essential.

Legal speak is the programming code of governance. You certainly can learn it, but that takes time and effort. Or you can look to a trustworthy interpreter that knows it and then puts it into plain English for you. Generally, that's what newspapers and the media are for.

Why do they do it that way? It's actually the least complicated way of doing things. The problem is that understanding the full extent of the bills requires contextual knowledge of the current system and of the other laws that are being referenced and amended. I don't find the legalspeak to be too challenging, really. Reading through parts of this bill, most of it is in fairly plain English, and what few terms trip me up require little more than a quick reference look up. Now, understanding how the legal framework is turned into its realized form is another thing altogether.