If any publication was going to document the sickness known as Potomac Fever, it was going to be the Washington Post. Last month, the newspaper penned a front-page dispatch headlined “Housing Accord Puts Builders First; Strapped Homeowners Offered Little Aid.” It described congressional leaders agreeing to “provide billions of dollars in tax rebates to the slumping home-building industry while offering… return to article
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Reader Comments (3)Page 1 of 1 pagesCome on, it is simply NOT POSSIBLE to embarrass a legislator into doing anything.
While the rest of us are feeling the loss of jobs and job quality, the rampant inflation in food and energy (not part of the core they love to quote), increasing health care and education costs, they are getting automatic pay raises.
The whole Fed mortgage charade is designed to protect those responsible for the biggest economic fraud in history.
The legislative pattern for home foreclosure is the same one which gave us:
• Homeland Security which searches grandma
• allows illegal immigrants to flow across our borders
• increasing visas for foreign high-end job applicants with no follow up at expiration
• no inspection on 99% of imported food productsWhen money talks, Washington listens. Just try to communicate with your own representative… the response has already been printed and waiting for your comments which, “are important” to them.
If not for the price of petroleum and chickens, we should tar and feather the whole bunch.
Posted by whattheheck on May 3, 2008 at 10:39 AM “If not for the price of petroleum and chickens, we should tar and feather the whole bunch.”
“Nail’em up I say.”
Excellent suggestions but you might also consider stoning them.
Rocks are plentiful and free and environmentally friendly too.
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