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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Ever since General Motors first approached Congress for emergency bailout funds, taxpayers have gradually lost interest in the government's ownership stake in America's largest automaker. Yet nearly half of the $43.3 billion total loss the Treasury will suffer on its 2008-09 financial rescue comes from its "investment" in GM.(full story at investors.com)GM's "forgotten bailout" will likely cost taxpayers more than any other non-housing program of the bailout era, even before factoring in supplier assistance or unprecedented tax write-offs for GM on pre-bankruptcy losses.
The National Socialist German Workers Party wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections (1932)
Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question." (1941)
Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro (2006)
b: Deval Patrick (1956); d: Andrew Johnson (1875)