UPDATED: Bail out bill agreement reached – Yipee! My tax money is going to work!

28Sep08

Important update: The comments in this post reflect my reaction to the content of the Washington post article released in the wee hours of Sunday morning. HotAir has a good fact check and should be referred to for detail of the bill as it stands. Some of the points discussed here, are irrelevant since they [...]

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Tags: Appropriations, Bail out, bailout, David Obey, Earmarks, Election 2008, executive salary caps, financial crisis, Harry Reid, House Appropriations Committee, John Boehner, John McCain, Read the Bill, salary caps, Secrecy, Transparency, wall street bailout, warren buffett

Citizens Against Government Waste – CAGW

27Sep08

John McCain mentioned in the debate tonight the website Citizens Against Government Waste. This is a great resource for people wanting to dig up these spending earmarks that have been buried in bills here and there. They release a summary of pork barrel earmarks, in the form of a book (or download), which is very [...]

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Lindsey Graham says Democrats wanted to handover 20% of the funds to ACORN???!!! What the…?

26Sep08

(see update at end of post)
Lindsey Graham in his interview with Greta on Fox, stated that part of the proposal was for 20% of the bailout money was to go to ACORN!

This money handout is obviously in response to ACORN’s lobbying efforts this week. They have been begging for it. (ht [...]

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Tags: ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Bail out, bailout, Barack Obama, Election 2008, financial crisis, Harry Reid, John McCain, Obama exercising, wall street bailout

Hurry up and bend over already!

24Sep08

To be perfectly honest, I am at a loss to understand whether this bailout plan is a good idea or not. I listened to Jason Lewis on radio this evening, and I am left wondering what we are rushing into – and I realized that that is exactly what I detest about this plan. The [...]

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Reid believes the Senate is now only 98 members strong…

24Sep08

Harry Reid steps up to help out Barack Obama, who does not want to present his plan for ‘rescuing’ the financial sector.

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Obama spends 3 days preparing for a debate that may be postponed

24Sep08

John McCain today announced a suspension of his campaign, inviting Obama to join him back in Washington to debate the bailout plans for Wall Street. He has requested a postponement of the debate that was to occur with Obama on Friday night. This comes as Obama has been preparing intensely for three days in Florida [...]

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