by chubbycherry on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | News | 1 Comment

With the country facing a worsening economic crisis, President Barack Obama is hoping to win quick approval of his choice of Timothy Geithner to be Treasury secretary, but first Geithner has to explain how he missed paying $34,000 in payroll taxes earlier in the decade.
The Senate Finance Committee was scheduled to hear from Geithner on [...]

Tags: finance, geithner, mistake, obama, Senate, treasury

by chubbycherry on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | Places to Visit, Travel, World | No Comments

The accusations are of unspeakable cruelty, made somehow worse because of the stunning setting.

As tourists lay prone beneath palm trees on sugar-fine sand, soaking in the sun on Thailand’s island paradises, so did other visitors to the country: refugees from Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Bangladesh. Photographs taken by shocked tourists and other sources show the [...]

Tags: Bangladesh, boat, burma, destitute, Myammar, refugees, thailand

by chubbycherry on Saturday, January 10th, 2009 | News | No Comments

Senate Democrats yesterday criticized the $300 billion in tax cuts proposed in President-elect Obama’s economic stimulus plan, which media observers saw as an early indication of tension between Capitol Hill and incoming Administration.
The Politico says Senate Finance Committee Democrats, “in a closed-door meeting with Obama’s economic chief Lawrence Summers and senior adviser David Axelrod…criticized the [...]

Tags: Democrats, obama, Senate, Tax Cuts