Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Oct 06 2008
Shot through the heart pocketbook
My spouse doesn't currently have a blog, so I'm filling in for him by letting a few more folks know some important news. The (supposedly) emergency bailout that we were told was needed to keep our economy from collapsing includes a repealing of a 39-cent excise tax on wooden arrows for children, which was procured with the help of Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith and which will give a big help to Rose City Archery (and possibly other toy arrow makers) in Myrtle Point, Oregon to the tune of about two-hundred thousand dollars per year.
Even in (what they call) a crisis, the politicians just can't seem to help themselves when it comes to angling for a little pork. I'd like to suggest that we consider paying their salaries and retirement packages with truckloads of these little wooden arrows they managed to think of in their hastily contrived scheme to save the U.S. economy.
posted at: 15:39 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
My spouse doesn't currently have a blog, so I'm filling in for him by letting a few more folks know some important news. The (supposedly) emergency bailout that we were told was needed to keep our economy from collapsing includes a repealing of a 39-cent excise tax on wooden arrows for children, which was procured with the help of Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith and which will give a big help to Rose City Archery (and possibly other toy arrow makers) in Myrtle Point, Oregon to the tune of about two-hundred thousand dollars per year.
Even in (what they call) a crisis, the politicians just can't seem to help themselves when it comes to angling for a little pork. I'd like to suggest that we consider paying their salaries and retirement packages with truckloads of these little wooden arrows they managed to think of in their hastily contrived scheme to save the U.S. economy.
posted at: 15:39 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
