The Idaho AARP (formerly known as American Association of Retired Persons) is sending 20,000 signatures to the U.S. Congress, demanding that Social Security and Medicare be left out of budget cuts.
Cuts to SS and Medicare would adversely affect hundreds of thousands of Idahoans who paid into the system for decades.
Idaho’s Interconnect Solar Development has hired Germany’s Siemens to build a solar power plant.
The 20 megawatt plant will be built in Owyhee County, and supply power to the utility company Idaho Power.
Siemens says it will use parts built in its Chicago, Illinois, plant. Some good news for the U.S. economy.
Even though Idaho’s unemployment rate is still 9.4% (for several months now) it actually edged up by 500 newly unemployed, for the month of June.
To make matters worse, the Idaho Department of Labor says most of the 15,000 people who found jobs in June, are filling existing positions. In other words almost no new […] Continue Reading…
Some idiot at CNN called the huge billion dollar car maker bailout loss for U.S. taxpayers “Excellent!”.
He justifies his statement by saying it’s better than the originally projected loss of $40 billion. What this idiot doesn’t seem to realize is that most taxpayers were against the bailouts, because they knew they would lose.
In total, […] Continue Reading…
Just like the U.S. government, the Canadian government has sold its shares of Chrysler stock to Fiat, at a loss.
Canada bailed out Chrysler’s operations in Canada, and it cost the Canadian taxpayers $810 million.
Canadian autoworkers union officials say their government should have held on to the stock a little longer, as a way of […] Continue Reading…
The city of Beijing is raising wages for people working in the city.
Already wages have gone up an average of 4.4%. City officials say their goal is to increase wages by 7%.
“We hope the scholarships will encourage American students to delve into China studies and other subjects in China in earnest.”-Zhang Jin, education exchange program
China’s Ministry of Education is ready to offer full university scholarships to students from the United States. The program actually started last year, and was officially announced in April of this […] Continue Reading…
Steve O’Bryan, vice president for F-35 business development at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, was in Japan, trying to push them to buy the controversial jet.
The main reason the F-35 is so controversial is that it’s taken far longer to develop, and it has cost U.S. taxpayers far more than originally estimated.
O’Bryan is hoping Japan will […] Continue Reading…
Grocery chain operator Ito-Yokado says it sold over 2,600 kilograms (5,732 pounds) of beef contaminated with cesium. The beef was sold at 94 outlets in Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, as well as on the northern island of Hokkaido, between April and July.
Ito-Yokado is not the only store that has admitted to selling the […] Continue Reading…
Japan’s Education Minister Yoshiaki Takaki is demanding action after it was discovered that three elementary schools served children beef contaminated with cesium. The schools are located in Chiba, east of Tokyo.
Takaki has ordered local schools to check the source of the food they serve.