Giffords changes vote on bailout

" Congresswoman Giffords:
I want you to know that I am disgusted with the passing of your 451 page
bailout bill. Wall Street has gone trick-or-treating in Washington a little
bit early this October. Wall Street is getting the treats and America is
getting tricked. The “Axis of Arrogance” has tried to pull the wool over the
eyes of the Main Streeters and in doing so hid a sty full of pork in a bill
whose constitutionality is questionable at best. It seems as if you folks in
Washington continue to treat your wallet as your tip jar and this has to
stop.

Just check out a few provisions in this bill:

Sec. 211. Transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters

Sec. 308. Increase in limit on cover over of rum excise tax to Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands.

Sec. 309. Extension of economic development credit for American Samoa.

Sec. 312. Deduction allowable with respect to income attributable to
domestic production activities in Puerto Rico.

Sec. 317. Seven-year cost recovery period for a motorsports racing track
facility.

Sec. 322. Tax incentives for investment in the District of Columbia.

Sec. 325. Extension and modification of duty suspension on wool products;
wool research fund; wool duty refunds.

And what about the benefits to La Raza and ACORN?

Congresswoman Giffords, did you change your mind about this "bail-out" as a
result of it giving you lots of money for your solar-energy crusade here in
Arizona?

At a time when we are at “ground zero” and on the verge of an all out
financial collapse, I am disgusted that these provisions were made.

At a time when Congress had the opportunity to do something to help the
American economy, you lived up to your low approval rating. The only thing
we can thank Congress for right now is that you are consistent. Congress is
consistently spending money that doesn’t belong to it, consistently
expanding pork projects, consistently doing nothing to help rebuild the
American economy and consistently hurting the future of our country.
Ultimately, they are consistently ignoring their own values, principles and
beliefs and as a result, the American People are going to have to suffer.

Without the bailout there might have been some temporary hurt, but the long
term effect will be far worse because of the precedent this bill has set and
the “Bail-Aholics” it will create. Within minutes of the bill passing the
state of California was already in line asking to be the next recipient of a
Government hand out. We are creating an economy where you cannot fail and by
doing so disabling our ability to ever truly succeed.

I am afraid this is just the beginning of the bailouts. We must not go
silent into the night, we have to continue to fight and stand up against
these legislators.

My name is Richard Humphries and I approve of this message, most of which
was written by Mike Huckabee. "

" Yes the bailout is distasteful, but the alternative is a worse situation than we are now in. How far we've fallen in the eight Bush years! Thanks, Rep. Giffords. "