I attended my first SG meeting Tuesday night. Nothing could prepare me for the absolute clusterf**k I witnessed. A large constituency of SG was able and willing to vote on a $1.35 million bill without even reading where the money was going. If you aren't aware, SG is being pressed by the UF Administration to give up 6 percent of its budget for "service fees." Nevermind what those are; UF doesn't want you to know, and many senators felt the same way.
This hearkens back to a similar performance our U.S. Congress put on this summer, wherein a 1,100-page, trillion-dollar stimulus bill was voted on without hardly anyone reading it.
Also, many senators resorted to false comparisons and other logical fallacies constantly throughout their arguments. One tried to compare the bill to a "tax," the UF administration as the "federal government" and the students as "tax payers" who owed a "debt." Obviously, none of these things are remotely comparable, since SG funds belong solely to students, meant to be spent at the discretion of the SG body.
Toward the end of the meeting, one senator even exclaimed, "Hey! Can we hurry this up? I want to go to the Swamp!" All of those exhibiting this behavior were Unite party members.
This is why UF students must vote because the Greek party is nothing but a giant self-congratulatory, circle jerk. No one in the Unite Party was ready to oppose the bill because that would build ill-report with the administration, whose ass they love to kiss.
I yield my time.
