Senate Bailout Bill Contains Pork For Race Tracks, Rum

  •  October 1, 2008

The Senate is getting ready to vote on a bailout bill tonight, but if that bill passes Americans won’t just be shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars for the bailout itself. They’ll be shelling out for some pork for race tracks and rum too.

New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)
Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill.
- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)
- American Samoa (Sec. 309)
- Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
- Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
- Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
- Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
- Railroads (Sec. 316)
- Auto Racing Tracks (317)
- District of Columbia (Sec. 322)
- Wool Research (Sec. 325)

These clowns are pretty shameless. We’re in the midst of a pitched battle over what to do about the financial markets, and these idiots are scrambling to pork up race tracks.
Because it’s not bad enough that we’d be forced to buy up loans that were stupidly given to people who couldn’t pay for them, but we have to fund some race tracks too. Which is exactly the sort of thing Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had in mind when they were defining the appropriate roles of the federal government.

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  • http://Array neoconphil

    Which senator was it that sang “Back in the USSR”?

  • http://tipseri.net/ Alex Clasament

    One thing is clear, anything will happen, the government will take care of all your problems! Just remember that when you vote!

  • Dave

    Don’t make fun of “wool research”. The sheep have asked for it year after year and finally now, they get it.

  • http://www.greatrealdeals.com/ Josh

    I thought all of our problems were supposed to have been solved by now???

  • neoconphil

    Don’t worry comrades, the government will take care of all your problems!!!!

  • http://www.jeanmen.com/ Jean

    What senators are responsible for proposing this bill?

  • Jacques Necker

    “There They Go Again” Bleeding us taxpayers so they can live like Royalty and give our money ( $150 + $700 Billion in this case) to their friends and champaign donors. This time they just rubbed our noses in it a little more than usual to show us how really powerless we are.

    How did the French solve this problem a few years back? Cake anyone?

    Jacques Necker
    “There is always a solution”

  • http://www.houston.cityweddingservices.com/ Houston

    Cant we have a free market structure here. Let the system clean itself up.

  • Jeff Taber

    The OMB should, by law, have to match earmark request legislation with legislator names and their party. In the information age, 2008-09…there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for our not being able to easily access this sort of information. We deserve to know exactly who, when, where, what, and how much….when it comes to our hard earned tax dollars.

    I am outraged by the absolutely simplistic coverage and scrutiny, or lack thereof, of Senator Obama’s stated financial plans!!! Where is the accountant when we need one? Doesn’t anyone remember their mother telling them, “if it’s too good to be true, it’s too good to be true!” This hocus pocus is nonsense and needs to be “called out” by McCain.

    If you reduce taxes for 95% of tax payers….and then, turn around and increase spending by one trillion dollars,….the 5% simply cannot pay for the $$$ left behind by the tax reduction….and then also bear the burden of the dollars to be added by all of the “new” programs. It’s just not honest accounting….and will demand a tax increase for all! If Obama gets in, there will be increased taxes FOR ALL, but for some, they will come AFTER HE IS ELECTED,…should this unfortunate event take place. What ever happened to honesty!??? ….and to our brains?

    jdt

  • http://www.babytoddlerdresses.com/ Baby

    Seriously, it’s about time we cut the pork. This is getting crazy.

  • Mary

    This is what I want to know.
    What senators are responsible for adding the pork?
    Please identify what senator goes with what pork.

    Also on the house level, who added what pork?
    If any are from my home state I will be voting against them for reelection!

  • http://www.topbuy.com.au/ pauliej21

    For far too long I actually thought that you meant they were supplying pork to racetracks. Maybe racing pigs?

    Either way it is just another case of one rule for the rich and one for the poor.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Are you kidding, the “indian tribe” provisions sound right up Dorganoffs and Kent Conradwide’s alley.

    It’s a twofor for them. Screw the public twice.

  • Rod Meyer

    HOw can we help to get this killed, these idiots don’t have any trouble sleeping at night and should all be replaced.

  • MikeAdamson

    It’s looking pretty grim for fans of responsible reform.

  • cos

    I am Angry!
    Who are the #$%#$$’s who submitted these huge add ons to the rescue package.
    I am waiting for Mcain to say “here are their names and I have made them famous”
    Even though he has voted for the bill that included these pork barral projects the least he could have done was negotiate with his own Republican senators and make sure that sweeteners were not part of the package.
    I would assume that is they were Dem. senators that he would have made there names public…..Don’t u think?

  • bdm

    Is there anyway to know/find out which individual are responsible for each pork bill provision added?
    (i.e., who in particular added the arrow thing?)

  • FlyOnTheWall

    What about North Dakota? Where’s ours? C’mon…

  • Bill

    Amazing. I may as well bend over. But I better get free NASCAR season tickets since I am going to pay for it.

  • MikeAdamson

    I like rum and racetracks.

  • ollie-B

    Hey! There’s no bail-out for UND to get rid of all the Sioux logos. I am sure that ranks right up there with rum and wooden arrows for children.

  • glenn

    can someone add up the pork barrel spending put into this bill ?

  • Mickey

    Wool is itchy. Send me the money.

  • philip

    Which specific senator added the pork for each earmark:
    New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
    - Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502) – SENATOR?
    - Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503) – SENATOR?
    - 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504) – SENATOR?

    Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill.
    - Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308) – SENATOR?
    - American Samoa (Sec. 309) – SENATOR?
    - Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310) – SENATOR?
    - Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311) – SENATOR?
    - Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312) – SENATOR?
    - Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315) – SENATOR?
    - Railroads (Sec. 316) – SENATOR?
    - Auto Racing Tracks (317) – SENATOR?
    - District of Columbia (Sec. 322) – SENATOR?
    - Wool Research (Sec. 325) – SENATOR?

    Come on journalists!!

    START NAMING NAMES!!!!!!

  • john

    Also added to this bill by the senate last night were tax breaks for oil and coal companies. Are we being governed by lunatics?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Wool research? What the heck is that?

    That’s for a special constituency of Democrats, because sheep can hear a zipper a mile away!

    (Old joke)

  • FlyOnTheWall

    I know FlyOnTheWall and he’s no FlyOnTheWall.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Wool research? What the heck is that?

  • http://twitter.com/r0ckH0pp3r sayanything-3285

    Typical Washington Pork-Barrel Spending
    Nobody here can be surprised by this!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    without knowing who added this, and with a huge approval from the senate… rob is just pissing in the wind.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    What about North Dakota? Where’s ours? C’mon…

    Clearly, Dorgan and Conrad have failed us.

    (kidding, I don’t want ND pork)

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    If this bailout is such an emergency, why do they have time to pork up the bill? Why are they putting the bill at political risk over pork for race tracks?

    If this was as pressing as they claim they wouldn’t be pulling this crap.

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