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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Chuck Norris :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Bailaholics
by Chuck Norris
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Tombstone, Ariz., has nothing on Washington, D.C. Friday's financial OK Corral took place when federal politicians had a standoff over the mother of all bailout bills. Bullets called ballots were fired from both congressional houses and the White House. And when the smoke cleared, the bad guys appeared: Bush, Paulson, Barney Frank, Pelosi, Dodd and most of the other members of the House and the Senate, including Obama and even McCain.

The truth is most members of Congress voted to pass the bill but don't have a clue what is in this 500-plus-page legislation, which was birthed in the White House just two weeks ago as an infant of only three pages. Then it was voted down at the Capitol a week later in its adolescent-sized 100 pages. And of course, in good bureaucratic fashion, it met the criteria to be mature when it was more than five times that size and packed with governmental goodies. And the president signed it just an hour after receiving it from Capitol Hill Friday. I guess that speed-reading course paid off.

In the fine print, inserted between the lines of that 500-plus-page bill, are loads of fiscal additives and more financial toxic relief. H.R. 1424 -- the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which now has been signed into law -- officially includes more than $112 billion in political hors d'oeuvres and pork-barrel teasers and sweeteners that have absolutely no direct relation to the Wall Street bailout but were included to bribe congressional naysayers and others to get on the greed train:

--$6 million in tax breaks for wooden-arrow manufacturers in Oregon.

--$148 million in tax breaks for wool-producing companies.

--$128 million in tax breaks for the manufacturers of car-racing tracks.

--$10 million in tax breaks for small television and film producers.

--$223 million in tax breaks for Alaskan fishermen.

--$33 million in tax breaks for corporations operating in American Samoa.

--$192 million in tax breaks for rum producers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Continued...

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worthless
How big of a bonfire could you make with ten trillion dollars anyway?
Or the treasury dept is running out of paper to print money on.

Tired of politics as usual
The presidential debates are a prime example of what is wrong with the elections.
If you are concerned about the future of the Republic, you should want open debates between all of the recognized candidates. There are six candidates who are on the ballot in at least twenty-five states. They include: Bob
Barr, of the Libertarian Party; Ralph Nader, the independant candidate; Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party.

In my opinion by not allowing the other candidates to participate in the debates is perpetrating a fraud on the American voters.

This doesn't give the voters a wide range of opinions concerning the Issues that America is facing. The prime example is the bailout.
Both Senators McCain and Obama voted for the Bailout. Which is contrary to the U S Constitution.
Bob Barr, the Libertarian, spoke out against the bailout.
If you want to know what Bob Barr stands for check out the videos on you tube.
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