did anyone notice the name of the bailout bill?
Submitted by s.tristero on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 21:15
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers...
...and for other purposes
they actually attached it as a rider providing tax relief.
only monty python could make that one up.
this is getting more farcical by the day...
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The name of the bill is what it is...
due to Constitutional limitations on what they can actually do. Those items are areas where Congress has authority or can make amendments to previous bills.
They write the bills to stay within Constitutional authority, and then turn around and enforce or apply it as though it applies in areas where it clearly does not, if you actually knew the law and their limitations. (And then you get media folks and judges calling you names for actually suggesting there are limits to what Congress can do...)
In short, they have NO constitutional authority to do what they're doing, and since so few people have actually paid attention (until Dr Paul cured our apathy!), they get away with it.
I learned that when researching the income tax (tariff of 1909 and 1913). fwiw.
The Bill
as presented to congress(?) http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/09/28/ayo08c04_xml.pdf
The news media keeps saying that "the American people are against the bailout 50 to 1, that means that most people don't understand what is going on!" They don't seem to consider that just maybe we do understand what is going on and that is why we are against it!! 2/3 of the Republicans voted against the bill, why are we only hearing from the 1/3 that supported it?
Ron Paul or no one at all!
Look At this take on the bailout
Were we conditioned for the Bailout? To fight it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1X6RQLZtoA
Yes, I
Yes, I did.
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/65375
And it appears that this was, in fact, the bill that the bailout bill was presented under. I am not sure what this means. It could have just been a placeholder used for expediency, but I have not been able to see the actual text for the bailout bill anywhere on the clerk.house.gov website.
it means
we are living in a theater of the absurd amigo
expect anything and be surprised by nothing
ha!
ha!
HR 3997
or are you looking at some word name for the bill?
I think the one you're referencing was a follow-up initiative not the banking bailout proposal.
the link below is directly from the clerk of the house
it reads HR 3997
read the title of the bill
it is one and the same
qwerky ain't it?
http://www.opencongress.o...
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3997/show
that must be a mistake
I searched the PDF version of the bill and there was nothing with those terms or words in the whole bill.
no firefighters, volunteer, peace corps, 1986, .......nothing like that.
maybe u're reading the 1st draft?
check it:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml
i saw the title - but
but in the first draft dated Sep 22 those terms do not appear anywhere in the body of the bill.
But this is what the vote
But this is what the vote will be associated with. Later when people are researching voting histories, the votes made today will be associated with a completely different bill with no record of what they actually voted on.
I have been laughing all night about it
I thought " the clear sky act" was funny. this is a riot!
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