Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke have been before the congress for the past week pleading for an unprecedented economic bailout of the US Economic system. They have stated that we are “Days from economic meltdown”. The congress has been meeting for days to put a plan together; a plan that will end up costing far more than the 700 billion that has been requested. In other words, far more than the $9,210.53 per family of four that has been requested. This crisis is so severe, so catastrophic, that it has become necessary to force a solution through without discussion that will cost your family and my family and my brothers family and every other family $9,210.53!!!
Now I would like to do my civic duty. And if this is what it will take to prevent the disintegration of society as we know it, then so be it. But an article I read on Salon.com has my blood boiling.
This is a crisis boys! OK, so you want to take my !@#$%^& money. We are on the brink of disaster. So why the hell are you cluttering up this bill and this discussion with the following provisions?
- Sec. 105. Energy credit for geothermal heat pump systems.
- Sec. 111. Expansion and modification of advanced coal project investment credit.
- Sec. 113. Temporary increase in coal excise tax; funding of Black Lung Disability Trust Fund.
- Sec. 115. Tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration.
- Sec. 205. Credit for new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.
- Sec. 405. Increase and extension of Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund tax.
- Sec. 309. Extension of economic development credit for American Samoa.
- Sec. 317. Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facility.
- Sec. 501. $8,500 income threshold used to calculate refundable portion of child tax credit.
- Sec. 503 Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children.
And that’s just a sample.
I say, let’s find out who did this and hold them accountable. Why, as the country was on the brink of disaster, as you were spending my hard earned money to bail out fat cats who had made bad business decisions did you decide to add insult to injury and corrupt this important legislative discussion with your own pet issues. You thought you could get away with sliding in your own pet projects that would never see the light of day any other way. You may think you are clever, but you are the most vile and revolting leech on this society that I can imagine. Please crawl into a nearby hole and die.
I don’t know enough about the process to know if there is any way to put a name to each of these atrocities, but if it were possible it would be worth shouting this from every corner of this country.
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