In order to win passage, the following pork was inserted into the final bailout bill – these are from both parties:

$6 million for manufacturers of kids' wooden arrows

$192 million for Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands rum producers

$128 million for auto-racing tracks

$33 million for corporations operating in American Samoa

$10 million for small to medium budget film and television productions

$223 million package of tax benefits for fishermen and others whose livelihoods suffered as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill

$3.8 billion health-care provision that forces insurance companies to provide coverage for mental-health treatment equivalent to the coverage they provide for physical illness

Now much of the pork falls under tax breaks but good God can out Congress demonstrate any clearer how useless it is? Bipartisan pork and bipartisan slaps on the back for doing such a great job!

I want to know where the recruiting lobby was? How about $1 million for Gerry Crispin to buy new hats? Or $10 million for recruiters to take Maureen's Telephone Names Sourcing program so they can really learn how to use the phone? Better yet, $500,000 so Maren Hogan can have a nice new wardrobe for her new corporate gig? And of course, $25 million for Manaster's ERE Foundation.

Fellow recruiters, we have failed each other...