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Posted on 10/01/2008 4:43:52 PM PDT by caper gal 1
Here are some of the special-interest provisions that are now part of the Wall Street bailout legislation. The bill started at 3 pages, grew to 106 pages, and is now 451 pages.
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) 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)
Text of the Bail Out Bill
http://senateconservatives.com/2008/10/01/text-of-wall-street-bailout/
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If he votes yes to all of this bacon he is finished.
What is wrong with these people?
I’d like to see a list, of every tax break, every new tax, etc. on this titanic-bill and who sponsored it.
I want to know who proposed the arrows?
What does that have to do with the mortgage fraud/bad loans?
You're kidding!?!
If that is in the bill, it is good enough reason to vote "No."
Absolutely right. 75% of the electorate HATE this bill. He would secure the presidency if he votes against this...but he won’t.
I truly wonder how he’s lasted this long in Congress. A smart politician would vote NO on this bill.
unfortunately that is true.
WTH!!! Now I am REALLY ticked! They think we are really, really stupid. If McCain votes for this, I will not vote for him and I have emailed his office and told them. I don’t think he really wants to win.
Yep, and Jorge will probably sign it if it contains enough funds to appease his euro buddies. Hey, the lamestream has been talking-pointing how the bailout didn’t have enough for main street (read: free lard for the “insert downtrodden underclass of choice”).
By Michelle Malkin • October 1, 2008 10:17 AM
Thanks to the Senate Conservatives Fund for posting the 451-page bailout behemoth here.
Crap sandwich redux.
Call your Senator: 202-224-3121.
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A few of the earmarks stuffed in the 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)
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The nerve of these gdamn people. Time for a march on Washington to take our country back.
TWF?!?!?
This ain’t a crap sandwich. It’s a pulled-pork foot-long with extra-hot diarrhea sauce.
How does an emergency bill in order to avert an overnight collapse of the american way of life and of mom & apple pie get wool research, car racing and wooden arrows for children?
Are you F’ing kidding me?!? Are you kidding me!!?!
“What is wrong with these people?”
Tactically, they are giving House members “outs” to reject the bill openly, and that the public will understand because they will hear jokes about them through comedians.
Do you like your bacon floppy or crispy, sir?
I have never seen a group of politicians so ADDICTED TO OUR MONEY BEFORE IN MY LIFE!!!
What part of IT'S NOT YOUR DAMN MONEY TO SPEND OR EARMARK don't they f**king understand?!?! I am sick and damn tired of these idiots.
They are such blood sucking vampires!
Sorry for yelling but I am really cheesed off here. (can't you tell?)
If only it were bacon.
Tonight, McCain and Obama will come together to serve the taxpayer and the citizen an oversized turd, fresh, hot, and steaming, with flies and everything.
Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) — Rose City Archery Inc., an Oregon company that makes arrows used by children, hit a bull’s-eye with Senate legislation that would rescue Wall Street banks.
Senators attached a provision repealing a 39-cent excise tax on wooden arrows designed for children to an historic $700 billion bank rescue that is likely to pass tonight. The provision, originally proposed by Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith, will save manufacturers such as Rose City Archery in Myrtle Point, Oregon, about $200,000 a year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081001/pl_bloomberg/akd0vygn8l2k_1
Can I at least get some ketchup?
Feinstein said out of the 95,000 calls to her office, 85,000 have said NAY.
Looks like the bill is still just 3 pages with 448 pages of unrelated goodies to grease its passage.
Who’s got McCain’s email address to post here?
Here's another novel that's very apropos.
It’s true, sadly. If I remember correctly, it’s in Section 503, or thereabouts... around page 260-something of the 400-plus page manifesto.
Who is John Galt?
We need to become John Galt.
See H.R.6049 - Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008 and its associated Senate Roll Call Vote No. 205.
No, it’s really much simpler than a march. This is about money; more specifically the hunger of the government for OUR money.
Solution: enough people march into their human resources department in the morning and jack up their exemptions to essentially eliminate sending any further income tax from their pay-checks to the swines. Done, simple and sweet.
OK, you nay-sayers.....they-re gonna attempt to prosecute millions? Uh-huh....right.
McCain is on the wrong side of this and could have picked up the votes of all those disgruntled people (Ds and Rs). McCain has to shown he has large brass balls against Barry's tiny ACORNS.
Funny you should say that - I felt the need to re-read “Atlas Shrugged” again this week.
Standard preamble is about half a page. The bill was originally 3 pages of text from Paulson - it probably would have run 10-20 pages in Congressional big print. The House-rejected bill was 103 pages. The Senate bailout runs 113, plus the text of recently passed H.R.6049 added to that makes up the total roughly 500 pages of the Dodd substitute amendment.
Now that I think about it, didn't McCain say that there was a bunch of unrelated crap in the original "proposal" that Paulson and his buddies concocted and proposed in that White House meeting last weekend; and that's why he wouldn't go for it?
If he goes for this trough filled with sewage, the MSM will really rub his nose in it. Not to mention how pissed off the majority of America will be with him.
I guess, though, if he and Osama both vote for it, that might negate any loss of support that either one would suffer from their base. Not that either one gives a damn, anyway.
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I just sent hot messages to my Senators regarding this piece of fetid tripe. This thing stinks from all the pork and special interest crappola.
Ridiculous...
Republicans have been played. They needed to come up with something that put responsibility/cost back on financial institutions immediately. They waited too long. Something was going to be passed and now it will be laden with pork.
Americans are blaming them for the stock market drop Monday. They have been saying they are “working on something”. They didn’t get something out. They didn’t name names for the most part.
So now they are d@mned by the base if they vote yes and d@mned by America for the potential disaster the Democrats originally caused. Mark my word if nothing passes things will appear to get bad real quick and those Democrats like Buffett that can afford to play around will ensure it.
I’ve re-read it in the last month as well. Although, I must confess to skipping the 75 page Galt speech...again ;)
Now, I’m just a lawyer so I don’t know much about these things, but — filing our income tax returns is voluntary. A gift or bequest to the United States Treasury. You see, looters prefer voluntary victims.
How in the hell can anyone vote for this? 451 pages? They purposely word it so the average tax payer can not decipher what this bill is actually asking of us!
Thank God, some people have been cramming to read all of this BS BAILOUT BILL and has translated it for the rest of us!
How can McCain vote for this? Isn’t he the “anti-pork” candidate? Didn’t he call Obama out during the last debate for the $900 million he had earmarked?
Can we just write in Palin as a candidate? Forget McCain! He is blowing it! This should be so easy for him. He’s not naming names like Dodd, Frank, Clinton, Gorelick, Raines, etc. He is not bringing up Obama’s payout from Fannie / Freddie, ACORN ties, Wright and Ayers, Iran a tiny country, etc etc!
There is so much that Republicans can do to out this candidate and the people who are at fault for our economic crisis, yet, they choose to take the high road. Why? Dems and the media hate you, why are you trying to be fair? They sure as hell aren’t playing fair!!!
Why would McCain want to listen to anything a conservative has to say? He's stated his opinion... public sentiment must be ignored to get this crap sandwich passed. That "public" would be you. Didn't the president make you fearful? Doesn't the media make you tremble? Get in line, this is a fait accompli, and you should be prepared to pay for it.
Don't you want some nice Oregon wooden children's arrows? How about a new race track? Malcontent.
SEC. 112. COORDINATION WITH FOREIGN AUTHORITIES
12 AND CENTRAL BANKS.
13 The Secretary shall coordinate, as appropriate, with
14 foreign financial authorities and central banks to work to15
ward the establishment of similar programs by such au16
thorities and central banks. To the extent that such for17
eign financial authorities or banks hold troubled assets as
18 a result of extending financing to financial institutions
19 that have failed or defaulted on such financing, such trou20
bled assets qualify for purchase under section 101.”
Do we really want to give the Sec. Treas. authority to “coordinate” with foreign authorities and banks without any oversight?
This is just plain insane.
To paraphrase McCain I would rather lose the election than lose free markets.
PRICELESS..LOL and AMEN
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