There is a reason the Senate is known as “the millionaires’ club”, and why they are more in tune with Wall Street than Main Street.

It’s filled with *special provisions* that will allow tax breaks for …

* Manufacturers of kids’ wooden arrows – $6 million.
* Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands 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.

WTF? That’s it; I’m done. I’m voting against them if they voted for this piece of crap.

My republican congresscritter in the House voted no on the earlier vote; my Democrats in the Senate now voted yes.

Jack, I included the list because the names cause a brain melt – Bernie Sanders and Sam Brownback? That’s like Karl Marx and JP Morgan. They added provisions to extend some programs for Katrina and all of the Senators from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama voted against it. You’ve got me.

Oh, yeah, Kryten, there is some real nasty stuff buried in the 451 pages. People are going to go ballistic when they figure out what this $810 billion is buying.

That was most likely one of the primary reasons this administration wanted this bill passed. 🙂 You know they have never, ever, done anything to help anyone other than their *big* friends. 🙂

Why would anyone be even remotely surprised? *shrug*

My most hated classes in college were the few economic classes required to fulfill the graduation requirement (oh, OK, so “Biological Statistics” sucked, too), so my ability to understand this issue is limited by my own most grievous fault. I am, however, fascinated by the fact that over half of the House and Senate votes available to my state have been against the ‘rescue’…and they’re votes cast moderate to liberal Democrats…

nelson does get some things right sometimes.

There are some real bad things in this bill that are going to come back to bite us all if the next Congress doesn’t do a real bill. Almost no one understands things like the “mark to market” accounting rule, but that was a change made to stop the crap Enron pulled, and they have removed the requirement in this bill.

This is a minefield.