{"id":3549,"date":"2008-10-27T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2008-10-27T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:39:46","slug":"rum-the-other-white-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"Rum: The Other White Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3227\/2978121403_b90d8b27eb.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As in Pork that is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1008\/14939.html\">As Congress debated the historic financial rescue package on Oct. 3<\/a>, the world economy was hanging in the balance. The House already had rejected Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson\u2019s emergency $700 billion banking bailout plan. The Senate, hoping to get the House to relent, added $110 billion in \u201csweeteners\u201d and sent the bill back.<\/p>\n<p>One of those sweeteners jumped out at Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio). It would permit Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to pocket $192 million in federal excise taxes collected from rum-makers in those territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadam speaker, the Senate&#8217;s response to the House rejection of the Paulson plan was to add more spending. So we got tax breaks for rum,\u201d Kaptur said from the well of the House. \u201cYou&#8217;ve got it right. R-U-M.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an outrage! I rarely drink rum. If this were Brandy or Single-Malt Scotch, I would be in full support. Rum (save 151) is a waste of taxpayer dollars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in Pork that is. As Congress debated the historic financial rescue package on Oct. 3, the world economy was hanging in the balance. The House already had rejected Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson\u2019s emergency $700 billion banking bailout plan. The Senate, hoping to get the House to relent, added $110 billion in \u201csweeteners\u201d and sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-pork-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}