Giuliani billed taxpayers to have affair

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani apparently cost taxpayers several tens of thousands of dollars during the is rein as Mayor of New York to carry on his affair with his then mistress now wife. Politico ran the story saying,

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information
Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the
little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible
for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for
indigent defendants. At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the
accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”
The Hamptons visits resulted in hotel, gas and other costs for Giuliani’s New York Police Department security detail.

Just the latest sign of corruption from Rudy. He is focused on only one thing, himself. He will say and do anything to be elected. Apparently once he gets elected he does not care much about what his personal endeavors cost the people who elected him.

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Congress Just does not get it: Democrats propose $10 billion in new farm subsidies

Farmers who are currently are making record profits are about to get a windfall thanks to a piece of democratically sponsored legislation. Sen. Richard Durban (D-Ill.), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) are the sponsors of the new farm subsidy bill that will give farmers $10 Billion in new subsidies. It is shocking that such a bill would emerge as Farmers are making record profits. This bill, The Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 (S.2302) goes to show that Congress just really does not get what the American people expect out of them.

The Washington Post reports,

"Sugar beet and sugar cane growers would get a new program aimed at protecting their share of the U.S. market in the face of an expected surge in Mexican imports. The 10-year cost: about $1.3 billion.

Tucked into the measure is good news for the companies that store and handle the South's peanut crop. The bill partially reinstitutes a program that was discontinued in 2006, allowing the companies to bill the government for some costs they incur under the federal price-support program. The CBO has set a $175 million, 10-year price tag on that."

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