While you're all outraged about the bailout...
...Congress is weighing the merits of the "GIVE Act." Google it.
Then tell yourself that everything is going to be okay. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2857/show See if you can find the horrible badfun part. And no, I don't mean all the "priorities for leadership shall be given to disadvantaged youth" bits. No, there's something REALLY funny in there. Give it a read. |
ACORN's got to get it's piece of the pie somehow.
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I'm feeling lazy. Why not just point it out, so we can be immediately amused, as you say.
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TGRR, are you a medium height white guy, medium weight, with brown hair and hazel eyes? If so, I want you. Srsly, I am consumed with lust right now, no joke.
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Naw. The whole bill isn't shown. Now take a look at the full text: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquer...sel=TOC_64232& Quote:
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Are your annoyed by this... uh, these... bailout(s).
Then don't click on this link. Seriously, don't do it. Don't even think about reading this Rolling Stone article. At least without taking your blood pressure and anti-depression meds. You don't even want to know about; Quote:
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Well so much for Redux's trumpeting of transparency.
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There is more transparency in the ERRA (Obama's stimulus bill) than the EESA (Bush's bank bail-out bill) There is more transparency in Congress now as a result of the Democrats ethics/lobbying reform in 07 than previously existed. There is more transparency in the executive branch now than existed in the Bush administration as a result of Obama's FOIA guidelines |
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the stimulus bill) included several provisions to strengthen executive compensation restrictions on recipients of financial assistance from the U.S. Treasury, such as:IMO, that, along with provisions requiring on oversight board and provisions requiring whistleblower protection provides some level of transparency and accountability. Obviously, you dont agree but that doesnt make it false. Quote:
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Attorney General Eric Holder issued comprehensive new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guidelines today that direct all executive branch departments and agencies to apply a presumption of openness when administering the FOIA....As I said, none of these are perfect nor go far enough, IMO ...but its hard to make a case that there is not more transparency than existed under Bush and the Republican Congress. BUt suit yourself. |
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And, IMO, the examples I cited above provide some greater level of accountability that could or should result in more transparency. Would you prefer that the compensation restrictions/oversight panel/whistleblower protection provisions cited NOt be included in the stimulus bill (as they werent in the banking bailout bill that Bush would not have signed if such provisions were included) or that new, more open FOIA guidelines NOT be issued, or new ethics/lobbying requirements NOT be adopted by Congress? We can either continue under the old ways or adopted policies and include provisions in legislation that MAY make a difference. And as I further said....none of these are perfect nor go far enough for me.....but IMO, are certainly better than the recent past. |
none of these are perfect nor go far enough for me.....but MAY be better ... we'll see... maybe
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