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I have to agree. One of the things I've long disliked is the practice of adding unrelated stuff to bills to get them to pass. It's usually used for budget resolutions; but nothing is really immune from it. It makes a mockery of what politics is supposed to be--the mutual altering of positions to get something in the end that is partly acceptable to all concerned parties.

For whatever reasons (mixed I'm sure), a large number of Representitives from both parties decided that the initial bill wasn't acceptable for the purposes that it was supposed to achieve. The bill as passed by the Senate did very little if anything to address this situation; IMHO our Senators did not do what they were elected to do.

I think that if a proposal has merit, it can stand or fall on that. I guess that i narrowly supported the objective of the original bill as unpassed by the House; though I would have preferred to see more deliberative time taken and a few more conditions applied. I hope that what we have now will work as predicted. But I'm not sure that even if it does that the price wasn't too high.

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  BOLYER271 year, 3 months ago
  
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  I didn't like the power it gives our government. Now the treasury sec. and the board (which consist's of the people that got us here) now can spend the money as they see fit. When decision's are made no justice system, no government board, no people can ever question or try them for there (careless and bias) decision's on who and what get the "$700B" if things go south. I did not like the scare tactics of both the bush admin. and the dem's in congress. They played right into Bush's plan. I think we need to clean house in all branches. I hope the AMERICAN PEOPLE do not sit back and let there government walk all over them again like they did last week.
  
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