Senate "Housing" bill All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions

[Knightshade Dragon]

http://www.freedomworks.org/newsroom/press_template.php?press_id=2571

That includes eBay, Google, Amazon, etc.  Explain to me how this has anything to do with housing?  This is the very thing that is wrong with modern politics.  How about 1 issue per Bill people.  No more Evacuate Springfield  / Perverted Arts bills!

[brettmcd]

http://www.freedomworks.org/newsroom/press_template.php?press_id=2571

That includes eBay, Google, Amazon, etc.  Explain to me how this has anything to do with housing?  This is the very thing that is wrong with modern politics.  How about 1 issue per Bill people.  No more Evacuate Springfield  / Perverted Arts bills!

I agree, this is one of my biggest complaints about how things seem to work in government, stuff just shoved into bills because they wouldnt pass on their own merits.

[Blackadar]

All I can say is that Dick Armey is learning the about the age-old adage "you reap what you sow".

As a civil libertarian, I hate this kind of shit.  It stinks and it right up there with the illegal wiretaps, the telcom immunity and extraordinary rendition.  The Founding Fathers knew damn well that a citizen must not only be safe from foreign agression, they must be safe from their own Government.  It's a lesson that sadly has been forgotten...and so this country has become a police state.

[Moliere]

Think of the children!