Fraud at Government Motors

The Chevy Volt was going to save the planet and save GM too.
The Chevy Volt was going to be all electric with a small gas engine to recharge the batteries on the fly.
The Chevy Volt was supposed to get 230mpg.
The press finally got to try the Volt out and they found a few things were changed.
230mpg?
Nope! It gets less than 45mpg on engine only city driving.
Small engine?
Nope! The engine runs the front wheels over 70mph and cannot charge the batteries at the same time.

So a $41K (hybrid, not electric) car that is only that cheap with a $7.5K taxpayer subsidy that gets worse mileage than the Prius is what we get when the Government runs the company?

UK wants the worker's paychecks

In a chillingly Socialist move, the UK government has proposed having all workers' paychecks go to the government first and the government depositing the remainder after deductions.
This is very scary stuff and the Obama administration is likely watching this very closely to see if they might get away with it.
Implementing the system would require massive data collection and data warehousing in order to calculate and track taxes and pay.
It would expose workers' private accounts to government mistakes and do away with their option (and right) to only pay at the year's end.
Given the reputation of government IT and data security, this is very scary stuff.
Add to that the bureaucratic reluctance to let people have so much as a penny back once they have their mitts on it, you have the makings of a very bad situation.

Lay off first responders and install expensive art

Ann Arbor Michigan is laying off firefighters.
No big surprise there; it is happening all over (partly as a political) tactic.
The ugly surprise is that they are funding an $850K piece of water sculpture at the same time.
One reason things like this happen is the rigid way government funding is controlled.
If money is allocated for pink flamingos, you can't spend it on paving roads unless you go through a difficult process.
Lack of flexibility is exactly why we don't want government health care.
This is the kind of thinking you get when the government caters to an elite, rather than the people.
They are more than willing to guilt us into raising our taxes by threatening first responders and teachers (the teachers thing doesn't work as well these days).

More fuel for your anti-government anger

If you weren't already mad or mad enough, here is a breakdown of spending that will just make your day.

Census Chaos

You knew it was coming.
So many of the people the Democrats rely on for ignorance based voting, and many passive aggressives on the right have not filled out and returned their forms and that means hundreds of thousands of people are out on the streets knocking on doors for answers.
Some of them are casing houses and people for criminal activity.
Some of them end up as crime victims.
Then there are the fake census workers that commit home invasions.

The Government!
They're here to help!

Big Brother comes to PA

Pennsylvania has a government sponsored ad concerning tax amnesty, that shows a satellite view zooming in to street level where the voice over is telling a tax delinquent to "make this easy" by paying his back taxes before a due date.
If it weren't so scary, it would be hilarious.
I hope Barry doesn't see this.