Not only is it bad enough to read that Barney “Fagula” Frank wants to divert our tax money paid back by banks to the TARP program (rather than apply the proceeds back to the treasury….US, the American citizens!) he now wants to use it to fund his pet housing projects.
now Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has come up with a proposal to spend any TARP profits before they can be returned to the taxpayers. Last Friday, Frank introduced the “TARP for Main Street Act of 2009,” a bill that would take profits from the program and immediately redirect them toward housing proposals favored by Frank and some fellow Democrats.
In exchange for receiving TARP money, financial institutions were required to hand over shares of preferred stock that paid a dividend for the government. In theory, if a financial institution paid the dividend faithfully, and then repaid the TARP money, then the government would turn a profit. Last month, the General Accountability Office (GAO) reported that, through June 12, 2009, the government had received $6.2 billion in dividend payments. The original TARP legislation required that money made from the program “shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.”
Frank, however, wants to spend the money before it can be used to pay down anything. First, the “TARP for Main Street” proposal would take $1 billion “from dividends paid by financial institutions that have received financial assistance provided under…the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act” and apply it to a trust fund that Frank has long wanted to create for low-income rental housing. (The measure, unfunded, was part of last year’s bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.) Next, Frank would take $1.5 billion from TARP dividends for a so-called “neighborhood stabilization” fund. Republican critics have charged that both measures might allow federal dollars to be distributed to activist groups like the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN.
The “TARP for Main Street” bill would also spend $2 billion, apparently from remaining TARP funds, to subsidize people who are delinquent on their mortgages, and another $2 billion to “stabilize multifamily properties that are in default or foreclosure.”
Who gave this cocksucker the right to do this?

But it gets worse. Did you know that Democrats have been on 50% more “fact finding” trips in just two years?
Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.
The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as “codels,” has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.
Lawmakers say that the trips are a good use of government funds because they allow members of Congress and their staff members to learn more about the world, inspect U.S. assets abroad and forge better working relationships with each other. The travel, for example, includes official visits to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Journal analysis, based on information published in the Congressional Record, also shows that taxpayer-funded travel is a big and growing perk for lawmakers and their families. Some members of Congress have complained in recent months about chief executives of bailed-out banks, insurance companies and car makers who sponsored corporate trips to resorts or used corporate jets for their own travel.
Although complete travel records aren’t yet available for 2009, it appears that such costs continue to rise. The Journal analysis shows that the government has picked up the tab for travel to destinations such as Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING AT THE GREAT BARRIER REEF?
Meanwhile, these MFCSPOS are telling us to go on “staycations” and not drive as much? ARROGANT MOTHER FUCKERS!!!
But what else do you expect from these scumbags? Moral and ethical behavior? Of course not! They are acting like typical minions of a tyrant and dictator in power. And so our country slowly but surely devolves into a third world banana republic right before our eyes where its leaders are allowed to do anything they want and not even the media will take them on.











Face it, the money we pay in taxes doesn’t belong to the taxpayers, at least not any more. That money we pay belongs to the government. We’re no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Congress is rapidly becoming our lords and masters.
”SCUMBAG GOVERNMENT AT IT AGAIN!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation
There, fixed that for ya!
Thanks, Macker. I knew it needed some wordsmithing.
The proper word: WORDSMITING
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING AT THE GREAT BARRIER REEF?
They’re studying the debilitating effects of climate change on the coral, dontcha know!