Packing the Rescue Bill With Pork
Let’s just remember come election time that it was the REPUBLICANS who sought to eliminate the pork-barrel spending injected into the $700 Billion Bailout package that was designed to attract each states representatives.
There was more than $1.7 billion worth of targeted tax breaks.
The special provisions include tax breaks for:
* Manufacturers of kids’ wooden arrows – $6 million.
* Puerto Rican and Virgin Is- lands 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.
Attaching these sort of sweetened up and extraneous measures, which were just meant to rally up enough votes for the bills passage, will lead to more problems in the future. This is special-interest politics at it’s finest. This isn’t OUR Congress, this is the Congress of big corporations, lobbyists and PAC’s.
Today I will be contacting my state’s representatives and senators to voice my disapproval with their voting. No this bill is not the be all end all to our economic woes, heck the day it passed the DOW dropped 200 pts. The American people who are paying for this bailout have to show our elected officials that we are not just the mules who are working to pay for Wall Street’s messes, but we have a voice and demand to be heard. Contact your representative to tell him/her this is not how you want your money being spent.
Check how your representatives voted. HOUSE // Senate
Obama and Iran
So first Obama wants to talk to Iran without preconditions, then he won’t rule out the use of force, then he says he wants to engage the Iranians directly but also press them on their nuclear ambitions, “funding” of international terrorism, and the stalemate that is the Middle East peace process.
However, it should be noted that Ahmadinejad and the Islamic Republic do not want to talk to the U.S. nor do they want to negotiate with the U.S.; it’s only the pro-reform groups in Iran who want to do so.
If Obama wants to talk without preconditions he would be violating four MANDATORY resolutions passed by the United Nations’ Security Council that impose sanctions on Iran and demand the suspension of its uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations. Obama would clearly be sending the wrong message to our allies in the region and to our NATO allies whose support we need in dealing with nuclear threats.
I’m not trying to start a post about how ~dangerous~ Iran is because I don’t believe it is as dangerous as the media make it out to be. There is currently a struggle for power inside Iran within the Khomeinist regime and the anti-regime tension itself is rising, so this would be a stab in the back to the reform groups in Iran. These “talks” would not only legitimize Ahmadinejad, who faces re-election in June 2009, but they would acknowledge him and the Khomeinist regime as being equivalent to the U.S., all while those inside Iran are urging Ahmadinejad to comply with the U.N. resolutions.
It just seems counterproductive to me. I thought that Obama, supposedly being the less hawkish of the two candidates, would have come out on top in the debates regarding Iran and Pakistan but I heard more pro-Bush policies from Obama than McCain on Friday night.
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