What are you - American taxpayer - getting from the "bailout'?

"The federal government has committed $2 trillion in financial help to Citibank, AIG, General Motors, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other large corporations and financial institutions. Now, the same thing is happening locally. Prominent businesses are seeking — and in some cases getting — cash, tax forgiveness, loans, loan guarantees and other types of aid to help survive the recession."

And part two of this particular scam:

"The developer wants the City Council to increase his property tax exemption on the homes from 50% to 100%. The change will reduce taxes by an additional $2.2 million over 15 years. Mayor John Brennan supports the deal: "Any time someone wants to invest $38 million in our city, I'll bail them out," he says."

I wonder how many tax dollars he got last year???

So you, Joe and Jane taxpayer, can just figure out some way to reduce YOUR spending and try to hang on to YOUR home. You as an individual are NOT important to your government except at tax time. We are NOW more concerned about "creating jobs" for the masses - than doing anything to help you with YOUR little problems...

This is such crap, nothing short of fraud, AND criminal.

Once you give businesses money - a lot of it - for screwing up - they become addicted. The trickle-down to lesser greedy business entities is in full swing. They will bring this country to a state worse than 1929 before they are finished - and the wealthy few will get even richer for it.

This is beyond politics - which is the haze the government and media cast over everything. What politics has to do with it is that the Bush administration got away with scamming the country for 8 years with no penalties paid for doing so. The word "illegal" in the country now means nothing.

This is a cold war against the American taxpayer.