Two posts one day!!

Oct 03, 2008 14:24

The bailout bill passed.

There is $110 billion in earmarks in this bill.

wtf, Congress. W. T. F.

"Hey guys, the country is having an economic crisis..."
"Oh, really? Let's add two million for wooden arrows to the bill that's supposed to fix everything!!"
"God, why didn't I think of that?!"

Here's the site that breaks down all the earmarks. I ( Read more... )

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shelderon October 7 2008, 22:22:39 UTC
Wow, this sucks.
I was just talking about legislative transparency, and how we need some earlier today. Topics that are not directly related, lets say VERY directly related because all of these things would be stimulating someone's bottom line, shouldn't even be on the same bill. Also limiting the size of these behemoth stacks of script would also be nice, say like five pages, so you could sit down and read it all in one sitting.
Hey you can do all that for me can't ya? I mean I'm complaining to you like you can.

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girk October 9 2008, 14:18:40 UTC
I'm glad you've finally recognized all the power I hold! I'll get on that when I have some free time... because I don't have free time now... or else I'd spend it replying to lj comments or something... so, yeah. Free time.

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