Senate Bailout Bill - 1.7 Billion in new Pork

[futurebeachbum]

They just couldn't focus on the problem at hand. A lot of Senators got a lot of little earmarks attached to the bill. Here is a link to pdf of the bill itself.

The bailout bill contains the following "new" pork::

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)
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The bailout bill extends this existing pork:

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)​

I feel so much better about the economy, knowing that the will be an exemption from excise tax for the folks who make wooden arrows for children.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Contact your representative and tell them to vote nyet.

 

[Bob]

if they keep voting down the bill, we are all going to suffer the consequences of punishing "wall street"....better to look at the big picture of the credit markets being frozen.

 

[Mango]

All these sweeteners remind me of Saccharin. In labs it causes cancer, but the government will tell you no it doesn't.

Nice. Hide all the loopholes, bailout of foreign Banks, and every other piece of crap in this bill with nonsense.

 

[Miss Kitty]

They just don't get it, do they? WIll Obama stop this?

 

[full time]

if they keep voting down the bill, we are all going to suffer the consequences of punishing "wall street"....better to look at the big picture of the credit markets being frozen.

Nice to know we can agree. People writing and calling their representatives voicing displeasure need to be very careful that they understand fully what is occurring.

 

[full time]

This is how Main Street takes a hit - 3000 employees.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...E22EA-904B-4A51-9021-4CD7D7D1749A}&dist=msr_1

 

[futurebeachbum]

Nice to know we can agree. People writing and calling their representatives voicing displeasure need to be very careful that they understand fully what is occurring.

I emailed my 2 senators from Ga yesterday to say that I agree that we do need a solution, but we need one crafted after more analysis and productive discussion. One that protects the voters and focuses on the problem at hand by being free of pork (although I didn't use that term.)

I haven't seen the vote tallies, but apparently it didn't do much good.

 

[BeachSiO2]

I emailed my 2 senators from Ga yesterday to say that I agree that we do need a solution, but we need one crafted after more analysis and productive discussion. One that protects the voters and focuses on the problem at hand by being free of pork (although I didn't use that term.)

I haven't seen the vote tallies, but apparently it didn't do much good.

It was 74-25 and here are the NO votes as that list is smaller.

Sens. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), David Vitter (R-La.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

 

[Santiago]

They just don't get it, do they? WIll Obama stop this?

You are kidding aren't you? There's not a chance he will stop it. For that matter, neither will McCain. They(the congress) have a 10% or so approval rating and yet they still get elected. The "pork" is why. Everyone likes "their" senator or congressman but not the body as a whole. As long as they keep bringing home the bacon it will remain that way. As P.J. Orourke said and I'm paraphrasing, "Every government is a parliament of whores and in our democracy, the whore's are us". It is truely pathetic.