Texas Representative Ron Paul lived up to his nickname “The Taxpayer’s Best Friend” today by voting along with 170 other Representatives opposing the government’s latest ploy to dump $700 billion dollars of taxpayer’s money into “troubled” financial institutions. Notwithstanding principled dissention, the bill passed.
“The unfortunate thing is that we’ve already spent at least $700 billion on other bailouts that did not solve the problem. And while all this negotiation was taking place, the auto industry was quietly bailed out, with no controversy, no discussion, to the tune of $25 billion,” Paul wrote on his web site several days ago.
The final bill, along with the voting tallies for every Representative, is available here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml
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