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>What exactly is the STATE OF THE UNION?
>It's health. It's financial health.
>Try harder. Dig deeper.
>Budget Message, required by the National Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (42 Stat. 20) to be delivered to Congress no more than two weeks after Congress convenes in January.
Hmmm…
1st Q: Is there ANY way to search the "statutes at large" (the actual LAWS passed by Congress) without looking at PDFs? (which make it difficult to search…) (or something WORSE than pdf…) WTAF?!
The "alternative" is to look at the "US Code" which is some shit lawfags put together to say what the "real law" is. But the "real law" is what Congress passed.
2: That particular act seems to establish the GAO (Government Accounting Office). This is often depicted as a "politically neutral" agency of the legislative branch. But that's odd on the surface. Isn't the legislature the MOST overtly political branch of the federal government? By design? It is SUPPOSED to be reperesenting the people, however misguided they be… Maybe this is all some fuckery…
3: as for SOTU being "financial health".. there is jackshit in the Constitution to support this. And on a philosophical level, I believe Plato mocked this idea in the Gorgias.