Senate Passes 'Loan Sharking Enablement Bill'

Great. Now usury is protected by the Federal government. Thanks GOP and Bush voters!

I'll use it whenever I rfefer to this obnoxious piece of legislation.

It is time to frame the debate our way, not theirs

from billmon's blog:

March 11, 2005
Back to the Future
http://billmon.org/

~snip~

While Americans are sitting on the sidelines, credit card companies are lobbying Congress and contributing heavily to election campaign funds.

It shouldn't surprise you that Republicans receive more than Democrats since the former tend to support business-friendly legislation more than the latter. It also shouldn't surprise you that the largest single corporate donor to George Bush's 2000 election campaign was a credit card company, MBNA.

In elections held from 2000 to 2004, the top ten credit card companies contributed the following amounts to various campaigns (amounts are rounded, in millions). These amounts do not include the millions they spend on lobbyists:


http://www.bcsalliance.com/x_creditcardtricks4.html

now it is the usurers. You can tell what his policies will be by who gives him the most money