The award for worst company in the country goes to GM, for taking over $11 billion from taxpayers and then recalling over 5 million vehicles.
Here is the complete list of bailout losses. You may want to sit down before opening it.
10. Afghanistan It is strange to consider that prior to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan the country was budding with Western fashion, nice cars, vacationing Europeans, and commerce. Secularism ruled as boys and girls interacted freely and went to Western style universities to pursue higher knowledge. That all changed when the Soviet Union invaded, causing…
10. Political Lip Service Especially on the Right, the debt is a popular issue. So politicians will pay it lip service on the campaign trail. Do they actually have a plan of action, though? Or are they touting some pipedream of a plan that has more than a decade of budgetary adjustments? It’s easy to…
Eleanor Roosevelt was probably the most influential American woman of the 20th century.
Photo by swanksalot 10. Social Security IT project wastes several hundred million dollars The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) project to update their system for tracking disability claims is two years from completion.That’s what SSA said 6 years ago in 2008. What is their update on the project? In 2014, SSA’s plan to update their system…
Photo by cvrcak1 1. Bill Clinton Revelations that White House intern Monica Lewinsky had oral sex with Clinton in the Oval Office leading him to famously declare on TV on January 26, 1998, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” The scandal led to impeachment by the House for perjury, for…
Photo by Mr.TinDC 10. Tour guides There are certain jobs which licensing protects consumers by ensuring that the person trusted to do a job or service has been vetted and is capable. It adds a since of security to high risk jobs like tour guides… Or, maybe Washington DC is just nuts. In our nation’s…