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Obama Speaks, McCain Votes and Runs
Okay republican peoples, your highly regarded candidate who has been stating throughout this campaign that he is totally against pork barrel spending voted on this "bailout" that was loaded with all kinds of extras EXCEPT HELP FOR THE HOMEOWNERS WHO ARE GOING UNDER WITH THIS THING!!!!!!
Take a look at the list of "extras" that were attached to this thing:
- Economic incentives for American Samoan businesses
-$10,000 tax credit for training of mine rescue worker teams (suggesting that maybe those rescue teams aren't trained very well or at all to begin with)
- 50% immediate expensing for extra underground mine safety equipment (the republicans voted this down a while back after those workers were trapped, so much for supporting the worker)
- Tax credit for businesses with employees from an Indian reservation
- Accelerated depreciation for property used mostly on an Indian reservation
- 50% tax credit for some expenditures on maintaining railroad tracks. (I'd like to know which ones the next time I'm on a train.)
- 7-year recovery period for motorsports racetrack property (That is NASCAR pork! Could only be republican)
- Expensing of cleanup for brownfield contaminated sites (I would have to look this one up but if the Superfund bill was fully funded, which it is not because of the environmentally irresponsible administration in power, this would be not only funded already but paid for by companies that leave these sites in that state)
- Enhanced deductions for businesses donating computers and books to schools, and for food donations (This is good pork and much needed in inner city schools lacking resources)
- Reduction of import duties on some imported wool fabrics, transfers and other duties to Wool Trust Fund to promote competitiveness of American wool........(Sorry, but what the fuck where these guys doing the last two or three days?)
- Special expensing rules for film and TV productions (Huh?)
- deduction for income from domestic production in Puerto Rico (again WTF?)
- Increasing cover of rum excise tax revenues to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (This might be the wierdest and most meaningless of the bunch and who the hell thought of this one?)
- Making it easier for film and TV companies to use deduction for domestic production.
-Exempting children's wooden arrows from excise tax.......(Okay I lied, this one is the wierdest one, was Palin and Quayle sitting in on this? Where did this shit come from? Where does this type of thing even warrant enough attention to even be talked about by any Senator or Congressman? Prior to reading this, I haven't seen a wooden arrow, well, I have never seen a wooden arrow and what parent in their right mind would let their kids play with arrows?)
-Income averaging for Exxon Valdez litigants for tax purposes.
Okay, there is a huge problem with this, not just because of the ridiculous crap that our lawmakers, and there is NO debating, both Republican AND Democrats had their hand on this, but while we are being told that this country is facing an economic meltdown these heartless, gutless, overpaid, lying politicians are sitting on Capital Hill coming up with shit so meaningless to attach it to a bill of this magnitude!
We should be outraged! Total crap, we were told when this thing first came down the pipe that last MONDAY if they didn't get this $700 billion that the economy would certainly crash, so far SO GOOD!
These stupid additions cost this thing an additional $150 billion dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That brings the price tag to $850 billion of our money. 8 out of 10 congressmen don't have economic educational backgrounds. Thats shameful, these guys voting on this don't have the background to understand the problem.
I have a lot of republican readers and Im sure democrats would agree, this is totally irresponsible. Notice that nothing of what was in the above and nothing in any of the other add ons addressed the middle class of this country and nothing addressed the root of the problem. I have a great idea, let the American taxpayers vote on this thing on November 4th, and in the process of us voting for it, VOTE THEM ALL OUT, EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WHO SUPPORTED THIS PIECE OF CRAP!
Funny thing is though the three men who are somewhat responsible for the mess, Franklin Raines, Tim Howard and Jim Johnson..Where are they now?
FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD: Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON: Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee
('http://www.wsj.com/');
John McCain is just as full of those people, Rick Davis, getting paid by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac up until August of this year, Obama's people who worked for them worked there in the 90's when things were good.
for more on who MCCain has working for him go here:
http://mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0002
Not sure who you are voting for. Not trying to steer you either but
this is interesting. Good to look at both sides..
Think about it
This election has me very worried; so many things to consider.
About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my
mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping
from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy.
I started looking into Obama's life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He
is very open about his two years at Occidental; h e trie d all
kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a
brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. "Barry" (that
was the name he used all his life) during this time had two
roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from
Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a "round the world"
trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in
India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his
roommate's
family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family. My
question - Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I nor any one of
my children would have had money for a trip like this when they
where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia
University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to
call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at
Columbia? It's not cheap! to say the least. Where did he get money
for tuition? Student Lo ans? M aybe. After Columbia, he went to
Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000 a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York?
He was already living in New York.
By "chance" he met Antoin "Tony" Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and
a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named "Entrepreneur of the Decade"
by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association". About
two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law
School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School?
Where did he get the money for Law School? More student l oans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented "Rezar" which Rezko's firm.
Rezko was one of Obama's first major financial contributors when he
ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser
for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was
instrumental in providing Obama with "seed money" for his U.S.
Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood
District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price).
With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the
property? On the same day Rezko's wife, Rita, purchased the
adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that
Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million
three weeks before Obama's new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was
Michele Obama's boss. She is now Obama's chief advisor and he does
not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where
was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here?
Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama
was "sacked" after the press found out he was having regular
contacts with "Hamas", which controls Gaza and is connected with
Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi
newspapers reported that during Obama's visit to Iraq, he asked
their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is
elected, and he will "Take care of things".
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born
in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those "small" Internet
campaign contribution for Obama. Where is that money coming from?
The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
And the final bit of news. On 20 September 7, 2008, The Washington
Times posted a verbal slip that was made on "This Week" with George
Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, "My Muslim faith". When questioned, "he make a mistake". Some mistake!
All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to
check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The
Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my
own, Why haven't all of our "intelligent" members of the press been reporting this?
A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - "Beware of the enemy from
within"!!!
Rita, OBama has been totally open about his drug use and really, so what if he did drugs or had questionable friends early in his life and in college. We all have had some people in our lives who have had questionable lifestyles that we could be tied to or maybe have been friends with but id doesn't make everyone bad people. Im not voting for Obama, but if you are limiting yourself to McCain and Obama then Obama is by far and away the better of the two.
If you are willing to take a look at Nader, go to his website and check him out. He is worth a look and hes not influenced by the lobbyists that the other two are influenced by.
Osama Obama is a very bad man! Very bad I say!