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If you believed all the talk from Chrysler about how our tax dollars would help finance its fast-track electric-vehicle future, you’re in for a big disappointment. Chrysler has disbanded the engineering team that was trying to bring three electric models to market as a rush job, Automotive News reports today. Chrysler cited its devotion to electric vehicles as one of the key reasons why the Obama administration and Congress needed to give it $12.5 billion in bailout money, the News points out. The change of heart on electric vehicles has come under Fiat. At a marathon presentation of Chrysler’s five-year strategy, CEO Sergio Marchionne talked about just about everything on Chrysler’s plate last week except its earlier electric-car plans. With the group’s disbanding, Chrysler’s electric plans will be melded into Fiat’s. Marchionne is apparently no fan of electric power. As a result, Chrysler won’t have an electric car on sale as soon as next year, such as the Dodge Circuit sports car concept it had unveiled. The change has come so fast that Chrysler’s website has been still featuring pictures of the electric vehicles. |
Les belles promesses du bailout 
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Le sauvetage gouvernemental du Messie Obama marche nettement mieux dans certains districts que d’autres…
C’est ainsi que le district 00 dans le Nouveau Hampshire a créé 2873,9 emplois pour la modique somme de 194.537.372 $. Ce qui est une véritable occasion!
Le district 00 est bien sûr fictif, mais il fait bien partie des statistiques officielles.
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=stateSummaryAllCD&statecode=NH
Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.
According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.
The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.
http://watchdog.org/2009/11/17/6-4-billion-stimulus-goes-to-phantom-districts/