It usually takes quite a bit to really get under my skin. Somehow politicians know how to push that button. Based on your Oct. 2 headline, "Senate brings bailout back from the dead," they once again got my blood boiling.

In a time when voters need assurance that our elected officials are addressing the needs of our country while protecting the citizens' needs, they once again come across as greedy, mindless, clueless idiots!

I want to know which senator had the brilliant brainstorm to include in the bailout package "tax breaks for motor-sports racing tracks, makers of wooden arrows for children and the rum excise tax for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands."

Just what are they thinking? If the Senate is serious about this bailout, why would lawmakers allow these items to be included? Politicians talk about ethics, about reform, about stopping waste, yet here on perhaps the most significant thing they might handle in their elected careers, they think it necessary to include motor sports, wooden arrows and rum!

Shame on them! It is the same old politics -- over and over and over.

Jim Cummings

Raleigh

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