Thursday, October 2, 2008

451 Pages of Pork

And John McCain voted for them. So much for vetoing any bill that had earmarks in them and making the person who put them in there "famous".

I think John McCain may have lost my vote. I am tempted to right in Ron Paul next to every person on the Ballot who voted in favor of this bill.

Here are some of the earmarks placed in the bill:

New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
- 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)

Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill.
- 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)


Wooden arrows, Race Tracks, and Wool research?! That's where the problems with our economy started?

Please...

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