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Response to Hal Valeche in the Stuart News, Sept. 4, 2009

The big deficits started with Obama? "SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
U.S. to Take Over AIG in $85 Billion Bailout; Central Banks Inject Cash as Credit Dries Up" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122156561931242905.html) Bush/Cheney just handed out taxpayer money w/o going to Congress. Next their Treasury sec. Paulson, asked Congress to" transfer $700 billion taxpayer dollars to purchase the distressed assets of several failed financial institutions..." (Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post) But Paulson snuck in a few sentences that said our courts and/or Congress wouldn't be allowed to challenge any of that handout. January 2007, when Dems took over the House, the Trillion $$ bill for Bush/Cheney's invasion of Iraq, had been kept "off budget" by the long-time Repub Majority, like keeping 2 sets of books. Where were all these "fiscal conservatives" worried about the Constitution then? Obama's Stimulus has given how much money to FL? Sure wish the Stuart news would list all the handouts this Repub-run state govt. has benefitted from, instead of listing celeb birthdays, or Madonna's travel schedule. And Jeb and the Repubs setting up a new appointed bureaucracy take $2 Billion from all Floridians and give it to "high tech" enterprises, was not "Communism/Socialism? From all who paid their tax bills, to the few Scripps, Max Planck, etc.? "Economic Stimulus &/or Development" boards also take public money and redistribute that wealth. How many have Repubs set up, and how many Repubs collect a real nice salary and benefits from such bureaucracies?

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