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.
When the use of steroids and performance enhancing supplements became widespread in Major League Baseball, fans were in outraged. If some players had an unfair advantage over others, it sullied the entire sport. Americans who followed baseball felt cheated and duped. Congress even got involved, citing The Federally Controlled Substances Act and anti-trust exemptions held…
9. The US government has provided billions in aid and military training to the Mexican government to combat the cartels. But it appears that legal weed in Colorado and Washington may actually do more to hurt the cartels’ bottom line. Massive drops in wholesale prices due to legal weed have led Mexican farmers to stop…
10. Leland Yee’s Real Life Grand Theft Auto We saved the best for last. Leland Yee, State Senator from California, was best known for his efforts to ban violent video games like Grand Theft Auto and his staunch support for gun control. Seems like just another California liberal until you release that all the while…
Photo by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY 10. It leaves no space on the elevator Every second wasted on worrying how much the cashier at the mini-mart (who is more than likely making over the minimum wage anyway) makes, is time taken away from real opportunities and actual problems. The minimum wage will not fix…
10. Barack Obama: “I’ve now been in 57 states. I think one left to go?” During his 2008 presidential campaign Obama apparently visited 7 mystery states unbeknownst to the American public. He later conceded the gaffe and laughed it off. But seriously, who forgets how many states there are?
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…