"Bill that would repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is sent to Senate" by Jim Abrams, Associated Press | May 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — The House voted, 229 to 186, to pass a defense bill approving more than $700 billion for military programs....
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And you, out-of-work Americans?
"House votes to extend jobless benefits; Bill would help 100,000 in Massachusetts" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | May 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — The measure still needs to be approved by the Senate, whose members have left for a weeklong Memorial Day break.
Related: Senate Remembers to Fund the Wars
Yeah, thy didn't forget that before they left.
That means thousands of Bay State residents will have their unemployment checks disrupted once the emergency program expires Wednesday....
Related: Senate to Let Unemployment Extensions Expire
Senate Balks on Unemployment Benefits in Favor of Bank Bailouts
Yeah, there is NOT GOING to BE ANY EXTENSION, dear AmeriKan!
The benefits extension was the key piece of the $112 billion bill.
So $700 billion for an empire built upon lies gets approved but $100 billion for food on the table is denied.
Welcome to the democrappy that is AmeriKa, world.
But approval came only after several turbulent days of negotiations between Democratic leaders, who sought to extend programs from the economic stimulus bill, and party moderates and conservatives, who resisted adding to the federal deficit. Leaders eventually agreed to kill $24 billion in Medicaid assistance to cash-starved states and $7 billion for health insurance COBRA subsidies for laid-off workers.
But the WARS RECEIVE 100x that much, Americans!!!
Republicans contended that the $58 billion in tax increases to partially pay for the measure — including $11 billion from quadrupling to 34 cents the per-barrel tax that oil companies pay into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund — are job killers....
Yes, YOU will be PAYING for the GULF CLEANUP, dear American taxpayers -- unless you still believe your lying government and its shit-shoveling front man that it will be BP.
The decision to cut payments would leave Massachusetts with a $700 million hole in its budget....
The bill also includes a provision that would dramatically raise taxes for venture capitalists.
Massachusetts has the second-highest volume of venture capital investment, surpassed only by California, and some in the venture capital community have been warning that the change would discourage the long-term investments that are vital to the growth of technology, biotech, and other companies....
Pissing away your pensions and college endowments, that is what they are doing.
Ever notice that the AGENDA-PUSHING PAPERS only wants to see a TAX on YOU, average Americans?
They NEVER WANT a TAX on the FAVORED INTERESTS they represent and that are ALREADY GETTING TAX LOOT GIFTS from lootislators!!!!
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