-Caveat Lector-
"Thou Shall Not Steal!"
because the Feds Don't Like the Competition!
--- Anonymous
"No blood for blow jobs"
--a placard
Crooked politicians, illegal aliens, a country in moral decay . . . all of
that and more made Steve Vaus mad. So mad that he decided to write a song.
The song has become a rallying cry for "patriots" from coast to coast. It is
probably the most popular recording on talk radio. Listen and you'll
understand why.
The music video which was prominently featured on The Nashville Network and
Country Music Television is available at Steve Vaus' web site. Crooked
politicians, illegal aliens, a country in moral decay . . . all of that and
more made Steve Vaus mad. So mad that he decided to write a song.
http://www.stevevaus.com/
Bard
Visit me at:
The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government
http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm
Federal Government defined:
....a benefit/subsidy protection racket!
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Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:13 AM
To: Libertarian Party announcements list
Subject: Release: war pork
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For release: May 12, 1999
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Senate's Kosovo budget bill is turned
into despicable pork-barrel bonanza
WASHINGTON, DC -- Quiz question: Which of the following items
are included in the U.S. Senate's "emergency spending legislation,"
designed to pay for the U.S. military action in Yugoslavia?
(a) Up to $1 billion in loan guarantees for steel companies,
and another $500 million in loans for oil and gas corporations.
(b) Foreign aid for hurricane victims in Latin America.
(c) A measure to remove a certain fish from the Endangered
Species list.
(d) A plan to let states spend $246 billion in tobacco funds on
programs totally unrelated to smoking.
(e) All of the above.
"If you guessed 'all of the above,' you're correct," said Steve
Dasbach, national director of the Libertarian Party. "Under the guise
of helping the military, opportunistic politicians are helping
themselves by funneling money to their favorite special interest
groups. As this bill proves, war isn't just another government program
to Senate Republicans and Democrats -- it's just another pork-barrel
government program."
The everything-but-the-kitchen-sink spending was grafted onto a
mammoth appropriations bill which was supposed to pay for continued
U.S.-led air strikes on Yugoslavia. The final details of the bill are
currently being hashed out by a House/Senate conference committee,
before being sent to the White House.
Among the items piled onto the Senate bill:
* Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) is promoting $1 billion in
guaranteed loans that will benefit just three steel companies in the
USA -- one of which happens to be the Weirton Steel Company in West
Virginia.
* Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), chairman of the Senate Budget
Committee, is trying to funnel $500 million to oil and gas interests in
the Southwest.
* Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) is currying favor with the
fishing interests in his state by trying to remove the Alabama sturgeon
from the Endangered Species list.
* Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) are pushing
for $4.3 billion for Midwestern farmers in the form of crop subsidies
and loan guarantees.
* President Clinton is demanding up to $1 billion in aid for
Central American victims of Hurricane Mitch, and another $100 million
in foreign aid for Jordan.
And, finally, "To show that partisanship really does stop at
the water's edge during wartime, Democrats and Republicans are working
overtime to use the war in Yugoslavia to promote another bipartisan
war: The war on tobacco," said Dasbach. Evidence:
* Senators Bob Graham (D-FL) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
are trying to ensure that states can spend the $246 billion extorted
from tobacco companies last fall on whatever they want -- instead of on
anti-smoking campaigns for young people, as originally promised.
"Whether or not you support the war in Yugoslavia -- and
Libertarians most certainly do not -- the way that politicians are
rushing to squeeze pork-spending projects into this appropriations bill
isn't just pathetic, it's contemptible," said Dasbach.
"In fact, it's difficult to decide which is more despicable:
Bill Clinton's military attack on innocent Yugoslavian civilians, or
the U.S. Senate's financial raid on innocent American taxpayers," he
said. "Either way, this bill demonstrates that for politicians, war is
a four letter word -- spelled P-O-R-K."
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