Are you still pissed off about the Wall Street bailout provision that made its way into the just-passed $1.1 trillion government spending bill? I sure am. But I never really gave any thought as to who put the Wall Street provision into the spending bill but now we know who did - Republican Congressman Kevin Yoder from Kansas.
Yoder has done the bidding in Congress for the financial industry since he's been in Congress - check out the big bucks he's pulled in from the financial industry since he's been in Congress:
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Yoder actually introduced the provision last summer. It was literally written by Citigroup executives, but Yoder, being the tool of the financial industry that he is, took their language and rolled it into an amendment to a spending bill in a House subcommittee meeting and was swept into the year-end spending package. Clearly, Yoder's provision
paves the way for another possible bailout.
Yoder has laid low after the spending bill passed and he has not made any references to it on hid Twitter account of on hid Facebook page, but clearly his constituents are on to him. Check out these postings on his Facebook page:
"I have always voted for you, Congressman Yoder, but I am disappointed with your yes vote on the Omnibus bill and we, your constituents, deserve an explanation as to why," writes Dianne Lavenburg, who lives in DeSoto, Kansas. "[P]lease clarify your involvement regarding the taxpayer bailouts for risky bank investments also included in the Omnibus bill."
"How much did Citi donate in exchange for you inserting their requested verbiage?" asks Kevin West, who studies at Kansas State University.
"Why is there a Wall Street giveaway in the Continuing Resolution? Did you learn nothing during the last cycle of collapse and bailouts? Plain ignorance, or willful ignorance?" says Rich Reavis, who plays in a band called Rail Dog that performs around Kansas. "Did you speak out against putting that crap in the CR?"
Scott Gregory of Roeland Park, Kansas, which falls in Yoder's district, says, "I'm sure the good folks of the 3rd District were just beating down the door to get CITI favored treatment. You are a sell-out to Wall Street lobbyists."
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If you have some freetime today, feel free to call or email Congressman Yoder and tell him what an ass he is for adding the provision to the spending bill. You can find his contact information here:
http://yoder.house.gov/