In case you have the time to read the new bill, here it is...all 451 pages of it. http://senateconservatives.files.wor...ailouttext.pdf By the way...this bill is 436 pages longer than the US Constitution. It started with just 3 pages....the house made it 161 pages...and now it's 451 pages. Lovely.. New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill - Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502) - Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503) - 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504) Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill. - Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308) - American Samoa (Sec. 309) - Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310) - Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311) - Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312) - Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315) - Railroads (Sec. 316) - Auto Racing Tracks (317) - District of Columbia (Sec. 322) - Wool Research (Sec. 325) Interesting...Tax credits for purchasing certain energy efficient appliances...(section 305)
The pork in this thing is just terrible. I hope no incumbant who voted for this gets re-elected. Both of our senators voted no.
I thought it was funny last night on CSPAN all the wackos that were "for" the bill were using the word "American" and the phrase "Helping Americans" so much it was going out of style. It is such a scare tactic and UN Patriotic to use such words when referring to a socialistic piece of GOVT. Yet another sad day in the history of this country.
Not defending the amendments but most of those were extending pork that already exists. What happened to cutting spending? This sucks. "Here's $700B to fix things and, by the way, let's renew the tax breaks for wool research".:angryfire
same old thing. the "here's a little something extra for ya if you'll vote for this" mentality. to everyone.
Two of the biggest problems I have with it is that it seems that no one even bothered to look at other options than a $700 billion bailout, and there are no banking reforms in it to prevent this thing from happening again. The earmarks and tax-cut extensions without any suggestion for how to pay for these things don't help either. It seems the bill got hijacked by the hogs at the trough.
the first version, without pork, failed in large part because of republican legislators. then add pork and they are on board. or is it that too many dems bailed on the 2nd version because of the increase in FDIC insurance so they needed the pork. the latter doesnt seem likely. am i interpreting this correctly? can we get a list of those that only jumped aboard for the 2nd vote?
