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Why is the Wall Street bailout package packed with pork?
Posted October 2nd, 2008 by warmmidwest
WTF is going on? Seriously!
The Wall Street bailout legislation passed by the Senate has $1.7 billion in tax breaks for shit like this:
- Manufacturers of kids' wooden arrows - $6 million.
- Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands rum producers - $192 million.
- Wool research.
- Auto-racing tracks - $128 million.
- Corporations operating in American Samoa - $33 million.
- Small- to medium-budget film and television productions - $10 million.
NASCAR is being subsidized in this taxpayer bailout of Wall Street? Do the people who represent us know what's going on in this country? Do they know healthcare and education systems are broken? Do they know bridges are collapsing? Do they know unemployment is at its highest levels in years?
WTF alternate universe are these people living in? Does anyone know?
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Republicrats
This is the normal DC universe. Republicrat bipartisanship, Reaganomics/Rubinomics, lobbyists for the FIRE sector and other chunks of corporate America drafting this pork and pumping millions into the politicians' pockets. McSame and O'Bush both have the same Wall St. largesse in their accounts. Money talks, and it unites people.
You get nothing, and you pay for all this if you don't have huge piles of money and lobbyists.
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