My Army Life...and other things: You have got to be shitting me....

My Army Life...and other things

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill

Friday, October 03, 2008

You have got to be shitting me....

WHAT THE FUCK DO THESE HAVE TO DO WITH THE ECONOMIC BAILOUT????

The following are some of the top tax sweeteners in the Senate passed Bailout Bill. Not all the provisions are per se outrageous, but collectively are intended to help Congressional leadership get final passage of the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization

Act. 1. Sec. 503. Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children WHAT???
2. Sec. 317. Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facility
3. Sec. 308. Increase in limit on cover over of rum excise tax to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (to the tune of 170 billion fucking dollars!! WTF????)
4. Sec. 301. Extension and modification of research credit
5. Sec. 504. Income averaging for amounts received in connection with the Exxon Valdez litigation THE VALDEZ WAS 20 YEARS AGO!!
6. Sec. 601. Secure rural schools and community self-determination program.
7. Sec. 201. Deduction for state and local sales taxes
8. Sec 502. Provisions related to film and television productions
9. Sec. 325. Extension and modification of duty suspension on wool products; wool research fund; wool duty refunds
10. Sec. 309. Extension of economic development credit for American Samoa

And Congress wonders why they have such a low satisfaction rating.....
YOU PEOPLE SUCK!!!
Can you tell I'm pissed....?