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In Germany, incentives totaling 5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) for buyers of new vehicles who turned in old ones boosted sales 23 percent last year, according to the VDA auto industry association. Without further subsidies, new car registrations in the country slumped 29 percent in the first seven months of 2010, according to the association.
Exports rose to an all-time high.
Growth is coming from a broad range of categories — everything from industrial machinery to corn to royalty payments. (When U.S. companies get royalty payments from overseas, it counts as part of exports.)
Exports are being helped along by a falling dollar. Rising exports allow for economic growth without relying too heavily on spending by U.S. consumers.
Exports for March were $173 billion .
This is Florida. I’m embarrass again.
Florida a transient locale. We tend to get the people who decided to reset their lives and relocate to a state without the historical baggage of their former state. If the person is from Illinois they’re escaping Polish and Jews; if they’re from Boston it’s the poor Irish and Albanians; Wisconsin and their Scandinavian potentates also motivate people to leave.
In terms of voting, Florida is on the DOJ’s list for states with historical abuses of voter rights. So to true Floridians this is not new, it’s a continuation of voter disenfranchisement and Antebellum hate. As a Service Member in 2000 those same voter issues robbed me of my vote. source: http://www.civilrights.org/voting-rights/vra/map.html.
I’m still rubbed raw because of it.
The nation’s unnerving descent into debt began a decade ago with a choice, not a crisis.
In January 2001, with the budget balanced and clear sailing ahead, the Congressional Budget Office forecast ever-larger annual surpluses indefinitely. The outlook was so rosy, the CBO said, that Washington would have enough money by the end of the decade to pay off everything it owed.
"Monica Goodling, a key figure in the politicization of the Justice Department during the Bush administration, has received a public reprimand from the Virginia State Bar, Virginia Lawyers Weekly reports.
The state bar found that Goodling committed "a criminal or deliberately wrongful act" that reflected poorly on her "honesty, trustworthiness or fitness to practice law," the publication reports. The decision was reached in March but was made public Thursday.
With the flurry of recent government bailouts, we decided to try to put them in perspective. The circles below represent the size of U.S. government bailout, calculated in 2008 dollars. They are also in chronological order. Our chart focuses on U.S. government bailouts of U.S. corporations (and one city). We have not included instances where the U.S. government aided other nations
Jobs for April. NICE!!
The United States economy added far more jobs than expected in April, but with more than 13 million people still out of work, analysts cautioned that it was too early to say whether the momentum could be sustained for a full recovery in the labor market.
The Labor Department said Friday that 244,000 jobs were added last month after a gain of a revised 221,000 in March. The unemployment rate rose to 9 percent in April from 8.8 percent in March.
It’s about time!!
The daring U.S. military operation that killed Osama Bin Laden early Sunday morning in Pakistan brought a decisive end to the chase that frustrated three American presidents and symbolized the inability of history’s greatest power to defeat small groups of extremists.
President Barack Obama’s announcement Sunday night touched off a wave of public elation, as chants from a raucous crowd outside the White House alternated between “U.S.A.” and “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye.” Family members of Bin Laden’s American victims wept with joy and relief. And the news produced something approaching national unity at a divided moment, as Republican presidential candidates put aside their criticism to praise the administration and the military for a daring strike inside Pakistan.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54073.html#ixzz1LBRGibOj
