22-11-2003 03:36									#1
	$180 Million in "Energy Bill" to build a Hooters in Lousiana Get a bigger avatar today!

I'm so glad Bush is looking out for America. He must have felt guilty about the money Ashcroft spent covering Lady Liberity's breasts.

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[quote]How Erecting a Hooters in Shreveport Ensures Our Energy Security

Any doubts about who owns the government, who the government is operated for and how the government is operated ought to be cleared up by «this little report in the Denver Post»:

'The congressional energy bill that has emerged from conference committee is severely disappointing and should be voted down or filibustered in the Senate. ... Some $180 million will pay for a development in Shreveport, La. That project will use federal tax money to subsidize that city's first-ever Hooters restaurant. What a new Hooters has to do with America's energy situation may be best known to U.S. Rep. Bill Tauzin, a Louisiana congressman and key player in the secret conference committee talks. ... Some $120 million in federal money will build an indoor rain-forest entertainment center in Iowa. ... In Colorado, money from the energy bill will help pay to redevelop a mothballed shopping mall in Lakewood. ... The bill shifts the costs of environmental cleanups from the makers of MTBE fuel additives onto taxpayers. Meanwhile, an oilfield technique called hydraulic fracturing will be exempt from a key environmental law. The legislation also will make it harder to regulate wastewater runoff from construction sites. ... The bill also effectively reduces royalties that oil and gas companies pay the government.'

This is the result of **** Cheney's secret energy task force. And why the people of the United States should never stand for secrecy in government.

But I have a question ... $180 million for a Hooters development? Those ta-ta's must gonna be gold-plated.

Anyhoo. It's all beyond disgusting. And we're supposed to be proud to be Americans with this kind of representation in Washington?

	22-11-2003 03:45									#2
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He gives the money to anti-abortionists =bad
He gives the money to Iraqis =bad
He gives the money to Israel =bad
He gives the money to Hooters =bad

	22-11-2003 03:46									#3
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

And people wonder why I call it "legalised" stealing

	22-11-2003 03:48									#4
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Welcome to the wonderful world of pork and secretive conferences....

	22-11-2003 04:18									#5
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**whistles** Wow. Since energy companies barely pay any royalities now for what they extract from federal lands, does this mean they won't pay a damn penny?

Y'know, as much as I support ethanol and the desire to get more of our energy from *domestic* sources rather than overseas ones, I simply don't know if this is worth it.

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	22-11-2003 04:40									#6
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The government should subsidize more Hooters

And implants

	22-11-2003 05:57									#7
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Ah, the fine American tradition of corporate pork.

	22-11-2003 06:03									#8
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quote: **whistles** Wow. Since energy companies barely pay any royalities now for what they extract from federal lands, does this mean they won't pay a damn penny?

Nah, they get an earned income tax credit - we pay, they collect, we vote, they bribe.

	22-11-2003 06:09									#9
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Best.

Hooters.

Ever.

	22-11-2003 08:41									#10
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Certainly the best civic-minded project our federal government has undertaken in a long time. Who needs dams, power plants, federal lands, and things like that anyways? There should be a Department of Hooters to facilitate this kind of stuff.

	22-11-2003 09:05									#11
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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell There should be a Department of Hooters to facilitate this kind of stuff.

Could we appoint Bill Clinton as its head?

quote: He must have felt guilty about the money Ashcroft spent covering Lady Liberity's breasts.

You undermine an amusing post with by adding your comments to it.

	22-11-2003 09:20									#12
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Welcome to the world of Louisiana politics. They won't pass anything if someone isn't getting something somewhere.