we're all socialists now! (...with cheaper wooden arrows*)

The fucking bullshit bailout bill passed. I think it was about 100 pages long when it went to the Senate and it came back to the House with an extra 300 pages or so... each worth about $100,000.00 dollars.

An example of the earmarks added to make it more palatable to the House would be Section 503: "Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for children."
But hey, at least it was a bi-partisan addition, thanks to Oregon's Ron Wyden, a Democrat, and Gordon Smith, a Republican.

So now our money is not only going to bail out the corrupt CEOs on Wall St, a decade or so of predatory lending practices, and, let's be honest now, the stupid fucking Americans on Main St that really wanted to live on posh Brentwood Drive yet really couldn't afford it and went and bought that house anyway; but ALSO help give tax breaks to people that make toy wooden arrows. You know, I'd be cool with some aspects of socialism, like the ones that take our money and give it to SOCIAL programs... this however, is not doing that.

So now instead of the manufacturers of wooden toy arrows paying their fair share of taxes, they're getting a break - which means whatever programs their tax money was going toward** is now not being funded. America, FUCK YEAH!

* of course assuming the manufacturers of said wooden arrows pass the savings onto us, the consumer

** i know, very general oversimplification - but the concept is the same

P.S. I'm still somewhat of a conspiracy theorist, and would not be surprised at all if John McCain, in a move already decided upon by his campaign and the current administration, suspends his campaign again to go to Washington and implore Bush to veto this bill because the American people won't stand for it. Bush vetoes it, and Main St. America loves John McCain, the maverick. USA! USA!

posted by scott 11:59 AM