Stimulus Part Deux? It’s Only Electrons After All

House approves $447 billion omnibus spending measure

“The House voted Thursday to approve half a dozen spending bills contained in one large package, as the chamber races to complete its work before adjourning for the year.”

Should we be “grateful” that only $3.9 billion is earmarks?
House OKs $3.9 billion in earmarks in spending bill

Why not? Let one Starve on the Sanctuary:

“Earmark sponsors also defended the projects as important to the nation’s economic recovery. For example, Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel), who secured $800,000 for the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail, said the project would help generate tourism dollars.”

Edumicate the masses on the aquatic livestock….that they cannot catch legally :
“Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a leading critic of pork-barrel spending, singled out for criticism $200,000 provided for the Aquatic Adventures Science Education Foundation in San Diego. ”

and tantalize them with tattered jean design:
“$250,000 for textile research at UC Davis.”

Yes Legislative Branch – there is a Santa Claus – and he resides within and close to the American Taxpayers wallet uhm – heart.

sniff. sniff.

Bailout to be attached to non-related legislation in the Senate

Bailout to be attached to non-related legislation

 

As reported in mainstream media all evening, the Senate is preparing to attach the bailout legislation to some other piece of non-related drivel.  The Senate has announced that it will vote Wednesday evening to pass the bailout plan as an attachment to a non-related bill without waiting for the House to attempt to pass a revised bill.

 

This maneuver is the reason that all legislation ends its title with the phrase, “and for other purposes”.  This is a signal to you, to the body voting and to the government that non-related items such as earmarks, assaults on civil liberties and expansion of powers not granted in the constitution, are contained in the bill. 

 

In this particular piece of theft by the government of the people’s wealth, the Senate will find a bill that most likely contains needed funding for some unrelated program, and will attach the bailout bill to it. 

 

Congress as a whole is so detached from the people it claims to represent, it never occurred to them that all the threats and scenarios posited as possibilities if this bailout was not passed, would be taken with a grain of salt.  Washington has cried wolf so many times in these last years and many of us have come to realize that the wolf is hiding under our flag.

 

We have endured eight years of one created crisis after another under this administration and the neo-cons.  We have been told repeatedly that if we did not act swiftly and immediately…. untold horrors would befall us all.  And we went along with all of it only to find out that the horrors we would endure would emanate from our own government.

 

I feel as though the American people are being driven to revolt.  Maybe that is what they have been after all along.  Then this dolt in the Oval Office could declare a national emergency and martial law. 

 

Get on those phones, faxes and emails.  Let your Senators know in no uncertain terms that you do not support the bailout, and demand that they represent the people and not the corporations that have corrupted their system.

 

I have no sympathy for these greedy, unethical and corrupt institutions…..even a dog knows better than to crap where it eats.

 

Marti