War Funding Bill Disguises IMF Global Bailout

Read what Mike Rogers wrote, he gets it.

Posted by Mike Rogers on Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM

War
funding bill disguises IMF global bailout

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, is a member of the House Intelligence
Committee as well as the Energy and Commerce Committee.

This week,
legislation came to the House floor disguised as funding for America's military
men and women. Unfortunately, underneath the disguise was concealed a huge $108
billion global bailout for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Michigan families, even in tight economic times, would never begrudge
our brave military men and women the resources they need to keep America safe.
With more than 14 percent of the state's working men and women unemployed, and
many, many more looking over their shoulders in fear of losing their jobs,
however, we do begrudge the IMF getting a huge amount of our tax dollars to
support some of the very countries that begrudge us our freedoms.

Dressed up as a War Funding Supplemental bill this week, the U.S. House
approved a measure that did just that --designates $108 billion to bailout the
IMF. So the U.S. taxpayer will be forced to borrow the $108 billion from
countries like China and Saudi Arabia, and the IMF will then loan it to
countries like Iran and Venezuela, which are spending money to kill Americans or
hurt America's national security interests.

Apparently Democrat leaders
in Congress have decided that huge Wall Street bailouts here in the United
States weren't enough; now they want to bail out the world!

The most
shameful thing is that they would dress up a global bailout as troop funding.
Basically they are using our defenders of freedom as bait for a giant global
bailout.

In Michigan, we may be struggling to make ends meet and
searching for ways to get our economy moving again, but we know for certain that
borrowing $108 billion and sending it overseas to countries like Iran is not
going to help us get back on track economically

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