Shame on Senate for adding pork

If any of us believe that the Senate had our best interest when passing the bailout plan, we are just kidding ourselves. The fact that they would not pass the plan without including "pork" at what is supposed to be the most critical financial crisis since the Depression shows us where their interests and loyalties lie.

The pork included, according to the Daily Herald on Oct. 2, tax cuts for Hollywood producers, stock car racetrack owners and Virgin Island rum-makers in addition to a research tax credit worth about $8.3 billion a year for Microsoft and other companies.

They should be ashamed of themselves, and I am so disappointed in both presidential candidates for not having the leadership we all need and stopping this foolishness.

The addition of pork to this supposed essential bill is disgraceful. This is proof that lobbyists and special interest groups can get anything they want in Washington at the taxpayers' expense. How are we supposed to believe that this plan with help us while most American workers are watching years of accumulation of their hard-earned 401(k) money disappear before their eyes?

The Senators were all so busy patting each other on the back and saying what a wonderful job they had done in getting this passed. I did not hear one of them address the issue of why they had to add an addition $150 billion in pork to this bill. I think we are all doomed. It is business as usual in Washington, D.C.

Janice Gargantiel

Batavia