Bison Farmers Battling Terrorism

So chicken and bison farmers are benefitting from the terrorism stimulus act. Apparently, the US is a safer place if chicken waste gets more federal subsidies… But what’s really interesting is how big investment banks are twisting the laws to serve their own interests…

The provision giving $4,800 per employee to businesses below Canal Street in Manhattan struck some experts as especially ironic because the tax credit was originally designed to defray the cost of training former welfare workers and the disabled. “I guess we’ve got to train those brokers better,” a lobbyist said, “especially if they had to move to a new computer system.”

Here’s what Apostate Joseph Stiglitz, the current Nobel Laureate in Economics, says about the Republican’s stimulus plans.