Getting away from Atlas Shrugged, here's a little tidbit I picked up today. Obama has thrown his budget out for "consideration", which I'm guessing will be one more ho -hum, 365 day add on to the already thousand days (Jan 23) the USA hasn't had one.

This is about the Chevy Volt and similar expensive doodads:

"The White House intends to increase taxpayer-funded subsidies for those who purchase new-technology vehicles to $10,000 per buyer, up from $7,500. Keep in mind that the average income of a Volt buyer is $175,000 per year. That means that middle-class taxpayers are helping the rich buy pricy, politically correct cars."

Since I believe that most of us are firmly in the middle class by definition, am appalled that I have to help contribute to that farce of an automobile so the tree huggers and bunny lovers can say they've 'helped'. Of course, what they seem to forget (if they ever knew) is that if we move our transportation away from fossil fuels, we have to put additional loads on our already aging infrastructure - power plants (which mostly use fossil fuels to make power), the ancient power grid that breaks with increasing regularity nowadays, pipelines ..... all transferred from one visible fossil fueled source to others that are hidden, but still there