Crappy Sandwiches

Have you ever had your mouth watering for one of your favorite sandwiches, and you could hardly wait to sink your teeth into it?

You rush to your favorite ‘Sandwich Shoppe’, and you find the menu choices are now limited to a Bull Shirt Sandwich, a Chicken Shirt Sandwich, and a Skirt Steak Sandwich.

Thus your favorite combo meal ends up being a crappy sandwich with the options of flies, claws, or undie rings, with warm or cold drinks.

I hate to say this, but this is the same selection of crappy sandwiches that our great socialist politicians and company CEO scumbags wanted us to eat also.

However, they also wanted us to eat a little pork shirt sandwich or maybe even a BIG pork shirt sandwich.

So what do I get when I order a BIG pork shirt sandwich, you ask?

Our good ole politicians added to the bailout-pork shirt sandwiches a few secret ingredients that you will enjoy, that have nothing to do with the bailout, and they are:

Under ‘Section 309’ American Samoa got a tax credit for economic development.

Under ‘Section 316’ a tax break was given for railroad track maintenance.

Under to ‘Section 325’ the Wool Research Fund got a big tax break.

Under ‘Section 317’ a tax break was given for racetracks.

Am I done?

NO!

Under ‘Section 502’ qualified TV and film productions were given an extension for favorable expensing rules at a cost of $10 million (whatever the heck that is).

Under ‘Section 503’ the manufacturers of wooden arrows used in toys for children got a $6 million tax break.

Under ‘Sections 111 and 112’ investment credits were given for the expansion of and the modification of advanced coal projects and coal gasification projects.

Where in the BIG HOT ‘H’ is the ‘Stop Toquop’ group when you need them for an anti-coal thingy?

So, I guess we’ve all learned nothing from history (as usual) when the same crisis happened in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s to the Savings and Loan Companies.

So what are the facts of the whole Barney Frank episode called ‘Fannie and Freddie’, which is by no means a TV reality show; and thanks for the deceit, ‘Barney Baby’.

It’s stated that in 2003 that the Bush administration wanted to implement tighter regulations on Fannie and Freddie four times, because the banks and S&L’s were knowingly approving risky loans.

Here’s the punch line: “Frank complained that the Bush administration was MORE concerned about financial safety than about housing.”

It was known back in the 1990’s that “affirmative-action policies were to trump sound business practices.”

Thanks to Cigar Willie, ‘prez #42’.

And not only that; “Lenders were directed to accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits as ‘Valid income sources’ to qualify mortgages, and failure to do so meant a lawsuit.”

The last words I heard from Barney Frank in a TV sound bite was, “We’ll be back next year to finish this…”, and that’s what I’m afraid of as these over paid hypocrites go off laughing at us taxpayers.

So where was the reputable ‘Fourth Estate’ in this financial crisis besides in Barney’s back pocket?

Now, the retirees have lost money in their retirement investments, homeowners have lost their homes, and the greed mongers have given us all the one-finger salute.

Those who were ready to retire this next year, now have to possibly work for ten more years, because their financial situations have changed because of this ‘Economic Crisis’.

‘We the people’, who had elected these mongrels to office, had hopefully taken the necessary steps on November 4th to ensure our future, but if you made the wrong vote, it’s all on you and not me, for I made the right choice.

I think that all of the politicians and CEO’s who were involved in the handling of and the causing of this ‘Economic Crisis’ should be made to pay restitution to all of us because of their dishonesty in their trusted posts.

And I think that they should have started the bail-out program of ‘sharing the wealth’ with every American citizen in the U.S. who makes $3,000 or less a month.

We all should have received one million dollars each to pay off all of our debts in order to put the economy back on track, and not eat a $700 billion political bull shirt sandwich.

With that said, this brings me home to the secretive HUGE 670 acre Mesquite Regional Park which very few people knew anything about.

We’re in an ‘Economic Crisis’, and Mayor Suzie and the ‘Good Ole Boys’ of the city council are prospecting to make $$million$ on this project, but from whom?

I guess our resident Washington lobbyist has convinced our Mesquite government that there’s not an economic crisis, and we all know how a silver tongued serpent speaks.

With contributions like $190 million coming in for this project, it doesn’t seem like there’s an economic crisis here in Mesquite, and interestingly, phase one cost roughly $55 million.

One wonders to whom the deep pockets belong; maybe to a wealthy philanthropist or to some close friends who are looking for some special favors?

Special favors; hum-m-m, looking the other way; what a concept.

Our outstanding Mayor said this regarding the park, “…for the residents, it’s a quality-of-life issue…but for the inactive, the park will have much to offer”, and interestingly she didn’t say what both comments meant.

However, in knowing the government, ‘we the people’ are gonna get stiffed somewhere, somehow, with this ‘Field of Dreams’ made of artificial turf.

I personally don’t think that we need any more stupid parks, since this is the third one this year; however, Snoopy (Charlie Brown’s dog) loves this field for extra curricular activities.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, what about the $30 million asset increase that the Virgin Valley Water Department had this fiscal year, which had an unforeseen glitch?

And how about the VVWD’s water use fees that were up by $140,000 over the previous year; I sure like getting stiffed; please raise my water rates again, $5 feels so goo-o-od.

What truly hurts is when one hears Cecil Leavitt boasting, “There are not many governmental agencies that can say they finished in the black”; HA, HA thank you, Cecil.

Yet, today, we are still without the arsenic treatment plants being installed as to meet EPA standards, while many suffer from skin sores and rashes from the contaminated water.

We the People WANT accountability NOW, and NOT Bull Shirt Sandwiches.