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Monday, December 31, 2012
As Americans brace for across-the-board tax hikes, President Obama is giving members of Congress -- and his No. 2 -- a pay raise.Obama signed an executive order last week that will lift a ban on pay freezes for federal employees.So who benefits? Vice President Biden, for starters. According to disclosure forms, Biden made $225,521 last year. After his raise which goes into effect March 27, 2013, he’ll be taking home $231,900. Rank-and-file members of Congress, meanwhile, will see a $900 bump -- up from $174,000. Congressional leaders will receive a slightly higher raise, with the House speaker receiving a $1,100 salary increase to $224,600. The top two Senate leaders will see pay rise $1,000, to $194,400.They aren’t the only ones who will see a bump in their paycheck. Obama also OK’d raises for circuit and district court judges.Some have questioned why the president would give Congress a pat on the back at a time when neither Republicans nor Democrats have been able to come to a compromise on how to head off $600 billion in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that will kick in Jan. 1, which could possibly drag the U.S. economy into another recession.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/31/obama-gives-congress-pay-raise/#ixzz2Gf563fHR
Friday, December 28, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
This is the car that in 1954 could have "killed" the Corvette. So Chevrolet, being GM's big sales and profit division, campaigned to GM to "kill" this car. When Chevy was introducing its 6-cyl. sports car with its 2-speed "Power Glide" transmission and side curtains, here was a sports car from Olds with a big V-8 and power windows. So GM said *no* to Oldsmobile on building this car. The world's rarest automobile a
1954 Concept Old's Rocket F88 - the only one in existence. In 1954 the F-88 was a Motorama Dream Car, and was one of only two, or an unconfirmed possible three, ever created. After spending decades as a collection of parts stuffed into wooden crates, the F-88 was reassembled. The F-88 seen here is literally the only car left of its kind, and was sold to John and Maureen Hendricks at the prestigious Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, for $3,240,000. This acquisition made automotive history and is in the cornerstone of the Gateway Colorado Automobile Museum, in its own special room in a rotating display worthy of the F-88!
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