IS ANYONE in the two houses of Congress monitoring and keeping track of the overall impact of several laws as these are passed over the years?
Is anyone evaluating whether the overall impact is good or bad for the country in the long run?
Or is the Congress passing laws without what short-term or long-term impacts it will have on the lives of the citizens whom they are supposed to serve?
For example, is any past or present member of the House or the Senate aware that it now takes a total of 11 years before a graduate of junior high school becomes a licensed architect?
What that means is that anyone who graduates from junior high school at the age of 16 will already be 27 years old before he or she is fully licensed to practice as an architect.
To understand what I mean, two years of senior high school plus five years studying architecture in college plus two years of apprenticeship plus one year of review plus one year of waiting for the board results is a total of 11 years.
That might not be a problem for the rich families who could afford to wait, but can you imagine how much of a problem that will be for the poor families who could not wait for their children to start earning so that they could be liberated from poverty?
There was a time when architecture only took four years to finish, and there was no requirement for two years of senior high school.
At that time, two years of apprenticeship might have been required, but any graduate of an architecture course could apprentice with any architect at any time, even if he or she has not yet taken the board exam.
I am sure that our past lawmakers had all the good intentions when they passed all these laws that eventually made it longer for an aspiring architect to start earning money for his or her family.
But will the incumbent lawmakers please look into this problem? Why make it difficult for citizens who want to be productive to start practicing their professions?/PN
