How Congress Spend Your Money?

The National Debt is $10.7 Trillion! Updated 6 January 2009.

Your money is spent through Appropriations Bills passed by Congress and signed by the President. This chart is based on the Appropriations Bills. The Government does not have any money, it takes your money from you and, and borrows more, then spends that!



there is more, check this article about the debt, Where Does the Money Go and this one about how the debt is growing.

Will America's 3 biggest automakers die?

Detroit's Big Three auto majors are in trouble having been buffeted by a recessionary hurricane that has played havoc with their sales and squeezed car loans. With the US sick of bailing out companies (that indulged in excesses) using taxpayer cash, these auto giants face death.



General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The Big Three of the American automotive industry were, for the better part of a century, symbols of assembly line-driven efficiency, US industrial might and American technological innovation.

In short, they were the envy of carmakers the world over. Sure, there were blips and hiccups along the way, including a bailout for the floundering Chrysler in 1979. But as recently as 1990, after decades of domestic dominance, the Big Three still accounted for over 75 per cent of the immense US automobile market

C.K.Patel.. NRI Gujarat Congress leader joins BJP

Los Angeles NRI hotelier, Chandu K. Patel, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with a large number of his supporters. In 2007, he lost Gujarat assembly elections on a Congress ticket by 8,700 votes.

Patel said, "I am impressed by the dynamic leadership of the chief minister Mr.Modi. It is due to his sincere efforts that Nano has come to Gujarat."

It is considered to be a big blow for the Congress in the state. He was the richest candidate with assets totalling Rs.2.21 billion.

1. C.K Patel, MBA, based in LA , California owns many motels, hotels and prestigious Ocean Front Hilton Hotel resort located at Dana Point, California.
   
2. Assets totalling Rs.2.21 billion
   
3. He was president of the National Federation of Indian-American Associations (NFIAA)