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Buried in the 450 page bill which throws an unimaginable amount of taxpayer dollars to global bankers in the already infamous "bailout", which was sold in the media as the magic bullet which will save us all from certain economic ruin, lies a mountain of pork handouts to buy the votes of recalcitrant legislators that will burden already hard pressed American citizens even more. It's a free for all over which average Americans have absolutely no control with the pigs fighting to get their snouts on the public trough and the losers, again, being the American public.
As the United States of America stands on the verge of irrecoverable bankruptcy, U.S. Senators have decided to orchestrate a final "blowout" spending spree by dressing up the financial bailout plan with so much bloated pork that no lawmaker can resist its lure. The so-called "rescue plan" (renamed from "bailout plan" by Washington language police) has now ballooned into a 450-page overstuffed pork sandwich, featuring layer upon layer of outlandish expenditures tied to the bill like too must ballast on a sinking ship:
• Tax breaks for NASCAR race tracks
• Big handouts to Virgin Island rum makers
• Yet more tax breaks for Hollywood film producers
• Gifts to companies researching wool
• Huge tax breaks for companies like Microsoft and GE
... and many other handouts yet to be discovered in its 450 pages of pork.
What began as a financial bailout bill to save the future of America's economy has become a free-for-all financial blowout that will only accelerate its demise. What's astonishing here is that even on the verge of financial collapse, Washington lawmakers are incapable of coming to their senses. They offer the same solution to every problem: Spend more!
"This is how Washington works,'' said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at Taxpayers for Common Sense. "A big pot of pork is their recipe for final passage."
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