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Well, Barny Frank is trying to get Fanny and Freddi to lower their loan standards. Barny is at the heart of the financial collapse in the first place, because he had Fanny and Freddi lower their standards. And mandated a high percentage of high risk loans. Of course he say's it was all Bush's fault. But, the little bastard is at it again.

Maybe I'll look into his gay prostitute ring that was operating out of his house.

Here is an unintended consequence of some of the new laws

Tampa will lose part of its cigar heritage in August when Hav-A-Tampa shuts its factory near Seffner and lays off about 495 employees, closing a factory that has been operating since 1902.
The company announced the closing today.
Many employees there make Hav-A-Tampa's iconic Jewels, inexpensive machine-made cigars known for their birchwood tips. Some workers have labored there for two decades or longer, including one who's been there for 50 years, said Richard McKenzie, a senior vice president of human resources for Altadis USA, which owns Hav-A-Tampa.
Altadis tried to keep the plant open by closing it for a week or two at a time and furloughing workers. Eventually, though, the company couldn't cope with a steep drop in consumer demand, brought on by the recession and a large new tax on tobacco products, McKenzie said.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/23/231900/hav--tampa-cigars-closing-tampa-plant/news-metro/

And your tax dollars at work

10 Million dollars for Cambodia Education

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48068

!00,000 Dollars to bread toads

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48044

Bring in the illegals
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/us/politics/25immig.html?_r=3&hp

WASHINGTON — President Obama is expected to meet with Congressional leaders of both parties on Thursday to begin laying the political groundwork for sweeping immigration legislation, even though its passage this year is considered very unlikely.

North Korea says is will wipe us off the map....now that did make me giggle.

But this doesn't


Even Cops Losing Their Jobs in Recession

http://www.newsmax.com/us/us_meltdown_police_departments/2009/06/24/228895.html

California set to issue IOUs as fiscal crisis weighs

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55O07Q20090625?sp=true

I can't wait to see the revues on the Obamacare Infomercial on ABC