Congress Gives Us a Present.

In much the same manner as your neighbor's dog leaves a "present" on your lawn.

How nice. Over 700 billion dollars in extra debt saddled on the back of American taxpayers. How quaint. Just as with every behemoth government program, there'll be all kinds of goodies for every good boy and girl, as a means to lessen the burden of our economic situations For instance, the bill offers:

...a plug-in hybrid vehicle tax credit that was probably first seen in some GM wet dream: "The credit is a base $2,500 plus $417 for each kWh of battery pack capacity in excess of 4 kWh, to a maximum of $7,500 for light-duty vehicles," up to $15,000 for vehicles weighting more than 26,000 pounds.

Just exactly what the doctor ordered to bail out the good boys and girls who live on Wall Street (not to mention to cover the congresscritters collective back phatsides who engineered this debacle from the get-go.. can you say "Barney Frank?). The compassion provided by this bill is ceaseless; for while we continue to wallow in our misery in trying to make enough money to pay for this and still keep roofs over our heads, our benificent elected officials found it within their hearts to ensure a supply of distilled spirits with which to drown our sorrows:

Anyway, here are some of the tax breaks and other goodies included in the bill. I'm not making these up. You, too, can read them here, if you have a few hours to spare:-cover over of rum excise tax to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until Jan. 1, 2010, applies to distilled spirits brought into the U.S,

Oh, and that's just the beginning... how about benefits for litigants of the Exxon Valdez oil spill..you remember it. I mean it only happened around 20 years ago.

Our good and benificent congresscritters thought of everything. Even national defense is covered in the bill:

Tucked into pages 262 and 263 of the bill, for example, are provisions that will aid the manufacturers of "certain wooden arrows designed for use by children."

Certainly those state of the art arrows will go well with any new body armor currently being developed for our fighting men and women in Iraq.

There are also presents for folks who own auto race tracks, worsted steel makers and hollywood film producers. All good ingredients to help Americans get back on the road to financial stability.

My, but aren't they generous with our money?

Folks, the Congress and the Senate have just hosted an 800 billion dollar spending orgy, courtesy of Joe Sixpack, to "fix" a crisis of their own making, while the architects of the policies that led to this are free to go on getting re-elected.. With no accountability, and an open door for even more money to be stolen from our wallets, nearly at will. The Enumerated Powers clause of the Constitution has become a mere suggestion; hardly to be taken seriously.

You know, as much as Representative Michele Bachmann is derided by leftist elements of this nation (and of the 6th CD), we need more Michele Bachmanns. Not fewer.