Its been painful to watch our democrat led govt turn into a free money feeding frenzy.
Todays nytimes reports that in order to pass the climate change bill lawmakers doled out billions in gifts to each other and special interests from agriculture, forestry and even oil.
It says "the deal making continued up untill the final moments with rep waxman doling out billions on the house floor to secure final votes.'
The story notes that a freshman lawmaker from florida got $50 million for a hurricane research center.
Rep bobby rush of illinois withheld support until a last minute deal got his state $1 billion for jobs and energy efficient public housing. Does anyone question whether the energy saved will equal the $1 billion we're providing?
Even texas oil refineries got 'relief' with nearly $3 billion annually to help with added costs.
Rahm emanuel's quote says the president 'loves the bill...including the great, the good and the not so great provisions.'
As I've said before, we are reliving the lyndon johnson years of guns and butter. The only difference is the magnitude of spending.
What happens when you have a country with less than half its voters paying any taxes and a small % paying the majority?
For the minority footing greater bills there is a disincentive to generate income. For the vast majority there is a race to the bottom. Get while the getting's good.
In other nytimes news...the governor of south carolina says he will repay public funds used to visit his mistress in argentina which he rationalizes because 'it was a real love story'. And Al franken wins the supreme court decision giving the dems a filibuster proof senate majority.
God help us all:)
I HAVE to throw in my experience here. 72 hours? Are you drunk? High? I filed a claim on 6/10/09 which never got looked at until just last week on 7/22/09 by anyone with the authority to do anything about it and within 5 minutes my refund request was denied citing their "Terms of Purchase" Prior to this, the only looks my ticket ever got was by customer service reps when I called in who can't do anything at all for you but "escalate"(which they couldn't seem to do) I was told on at least 6-7 occasions my claim was being escalated yet it never seemed to get done. Finally last week after being told by "Keith" that I was getting my almost 900.00 refund, I asked him to send me an email to that effect of which he refused to do so i hung up and called back. I spoke with another representative and at this point, finally threatened to sue them and suddenly I get a decision against my request. I spent almost 900.00 to gain an advantage in the game and due to a glitch by their programmers, many many players were able to steal godfather points and overtake me therefore negating my advantange thus turning my 900.00 spent into a waste of good money. This company doesn't care and won't care unless/until they get forced to by the government and I for one, will be the happiest man alive if they were sued so bad they went completely out of business.
I couldn't get them to reply to my trouble ticket in what seemed like forever yet now, I get emails all the time from Zynga regarding other trouble tickets that do not belong to me therefore showing me someone elses private business/information. Makes me wonder how many times they sent my info to other people as these emails are also being CC'd to anywhere from 5-6 additional people. And they wonder why people's credit card information gets unauthorized charges? I was also told at least 3 times that someone would call me back to resolve my issues and finally on my 4th call to them, I reminded them if they intended to do so, they would probably need to ask for my number at some point.(They never called nor do I believe they ever intended to) Their BBB score is an F and my final word...This company is a joke and their programmers couldn't program a VCR
Posted by: John | July 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM