A TALE OF NUMBERS – AT 8:23 A.M. ET:  I'm confused.  Please unconfuse me.  Isn't the Obama administration supposedly fighting for the average family?  Maybe I got that wrong.

From Reuters:

(Reuters) - U.S. drivers will pay another 10 cents a gallon for gasoline before the latest jump in wholesale costs is fully passed on at the pump, and yearly motor fuel costs will rise 28 percent from last year, the Energy Department said on Wednesday.

The average U.S. household will spend about $700 more for gasoline in 2011 than it spent last year, bringing total motor fuel expenses up 28 percent to $3,235, based on an annual pump price of $3.61 a gallon, the department's Energy Information Administration said.

From the Boston Herald:

More than a dozen WGBH honchos at PBS’ taxpayer-subsidized flagship station are raking in upwards of $200,000 a year while toiling in the lap of a luxurious $85 million multimedia palace dubbed the “Taj Mahal” that boasts a 200-seat amphitheater, state-of-the-art recording studio and Hamburg-Steinway grand piano.

The Herald’s review of the nonprofit producer behind such PBS stalwarts as “Frontline” and “Nova” comes on the heels of yesterday’s sudden ouster of National Public Radio’s boss following a viral video that showed another NPR executive calling Tea Party Republicans racist. The furor is fueling a new push to end taxpayer subsidies for public television and radio.

The freewheeling spending at WGBH — which produces one third of all PBS programming — has put the station in the crosshairs of congressional Republicans looking to cut off federal funding of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which totaled $430 million this year.

Those Republican barbarians.   Don't they understand the ways of Boston?  I guess they're still clinging to their guns and their religion.

You know, pretty soon Americans are going to wake up and realize how little the average American means to this White House and its congressional allies.  After all, darlings, how many of those little people come to Aspen to attend meetings on climate change?

Yuch.

March 10, 2011