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GM Halts Production of Chevy Volt and Lays Off 1,300 Workers
Big Government | Posted: March 4, 2012 12:40 PM
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On Friday, General Motors announced that it will temporarily suspend production of the Chevy Volt and temporarily lay off 1,300 workers associated with the electric car. Three days prior to GM's decision to halt production of the Volt, President Barack Obama spoke in Detroit to a cheering crowd at a United Auto Workers union event and declared that after his second term is finished in five years, he, too, will be buying a Chevy Volt:
A $5 TRILLION BILL
5:53AM: The government will spend more in interest over the next decade than it spends on Medicaid.
Washington's $5 trillion interest bill
By Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney March 5, 2012: 5:53 AM ET
These interest cost estimates assume Congress extends several current policies, such as the Bush-era tax cuts. They also assume reduced spending on overseas contingency operations.
5:53AM: The government will spend more in interest over the next decade than it spends on Medicaid.
Washington's $5 trillion interest bill
By Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney March 5, 2012: 5:53 AM ET
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These interest cost estimates assume Congress extends several current policies, such as the Bush-era tax cuts. They also assume reduced spending on overseas contingency operations.____________________________________________________________________
Meet ‘Evie’ — Obama’s Transgender Ex-Nanny in Indonesia
- Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:59am by
Billy Hallowell
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Once, long ago, Evie looked after “Barry” Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world’s most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia’s streets.
Evie, who was born a man but believes she is really a woman, has endured a lifetime of taunts and beatings because of her identity. She describes how soldiers once shaved her long, black hair to the scalp and smashed out glowing cigarettes onto her hands and arms.
The turning point came when she found a transgender friend’s bloated body floating in a backed-up sewage canal two decades ago. She grabbed all her girlie clothes in her arms and stuffed them into two big boxes. Half-used lipstick, powder, eye makeup — she gave them all away.
“I knew in my heart I was a woman, but I didn’t want to die like that,” says Evie, now 66, her lips trembling slightly as the memories flood back. “So I decided to just accept it. … I’ve been living like this, a man, ever since.”
Indonesia’s attitude toward transgenders is complex.
Nobody knows how many of them live in the sprawling archipelagic nation of 240 million, but activists estimate 7 million. Because Indonesia is home to more Muslims than any other country in the world, the pervasiveness of men who live as women and vice versa often catches newcomers by surprise. They hold the occasional pageant, work as singers or at salons and include well-known celebrity talk show host Dorce Gamalama.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/meet-evie-obamas-transgender-ex-nanny-in-indonesia/
As a logical consequence of the prolonged economic downturn it appears that participation in the federal food stamp program is continuing to rise.
In fact, household participation has been climbing so steadily that it has far surpassed the last peak (which looks like a minor blip by comparison) set as a result of the immediate fallout following hurricane Katrina.The latest data released by the Department of Agriculture shows that in December, 227,922 recipients were added to the food stamps program with the current total increasing 5.52% on a year-over-year basis while household participation increased 7.23%.
Individual participation as a ratio of the overall civilian non-institutional population has increased 4.84% over the same period.
Participation continues to increase with nominal benefit costs climbing a lofty 5.57% on a year-over-year basis to $6.22 billion for the month.
Great Moments in Democrat History
"I love it when these people say, 'Read the bill, read the bill!' What good is reading the bill when it's a thousand pages long and you haven't got a team of lawyers to look at it." ~ John Conyers (D) Michigan
"We can't tell you what's in the bill until we, uh, pass it." ~ Nancy Pelosi (D) California
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, energy costs would necessarily skyrocket." ~ Obama (D) Illinois
"We need to invest in important things... like the Cowboy Poetry Festival." ~ Harry Reid (D) Nevada
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." ~ Joe Biden (D) Delaware
"Solyndra will be the role model for green energy!" ~ Obama (D) Illinois
"Take a kid with asthma... you give him a breathalyzer." ~ Obama (D) Illinois
"If my daughters make a mistake and end up pregnant, I wouldn't want to punish them with a baby!" ~ Obama (D) Illinois
"The center of the earth is about a million degrees." ~ Al Gore (D) Tennessee
"I spend more than $40,000 a year to go to college... I think the college should pay for my birth control." ~ Sandra Fluke (D) LA LA Land
"Let me tell you what this liberal will be all about... this liberal will be all about socialism... um... er... um... all about... basically... taking over... and running your companies." ~ Maxine Waters (D) California
"Are you kidding me? I've got a gold mine here, I'm not letting this senate seat go for nothing!" ~ Rob Blagovich (D) Illinois
"I emphatically deny that these images on Twitter were posted by me!" ~ Anthony Weiner (D) New York
"And so I'm here to say that there is no housing crisis and there is no bubble to worry about." ~ Bawney Fwank (D) Massachusetts, 2005
"I mean, you can't even walk into a Duncan Donuts without a thick Indian accent." ~ Joe Biden (D) Delaware
"I have done nothing wrong, I just haven't paid my taxes." ~ Charlie Rangel (D) New York
"We should be embracing Qaddafi, he's a good man!" ~ Cynthia McKinney (D) Georgia
"We're going to pass this bill no matter what. If they put up a fence, we'll climb over it. If they put up a wall we'll parachute in, but we will not be denied!" ~ Nazi Pelosi (D) California
"Obama should be impeached for starting a war with Libya without congressional approval as it goes against the War Powers Act of 1973. But I'm not going to do anything about it." ~ Dennis Kucinich (D) Ohio
"It's true that I haven't paid my taxes in nearly four years, but I feel that the rich should pay more in taxes. I mean, my secretary pays more in taxes than I do." ~ Warren Buffet (D) New York
"When I was in my youth I was recruited by the Nazi's to help confiscate property from my fellow jews. Those really were fun times." ~ George Soros (D) New York
