This Deficit Stuff, Explained So We Can All Understand It

February 18th, 2011 Oscar

It’s Friday, and Lent hasn’t gotten started yet (for those of you who are into such things). So we can mix federal budget talk with sippin’ whiskey, I think.

Interested in more national news? We've got you covered! See More National News

Trending on The Hayride

No trending posts were found.

“So then the police officers blocked my driveway. I walked out and I said, 'what’s going on, are you guys testing me for COVID? What’s happening?' They said, 'no, you’re getting taken away. And you have no choice. You’re going to Howard Springs. You either come with us now, and we’ll put you in the back of the divvy van. Or you can have a choice to get a ‘COVID cab’… I just said, 'I don’t consent to this. I don’t understand why I can’t just self-isolate at home, like a lot of other people are doing.' And they just said, 'we’ve just been told from higher up where to take you. And that’s all that there is.'" - Hayley Hodgson, a 26-year-old Australian sent to a COVID internment camp on suspicion she'd come in contact with someone who had tested positive for the virus.

More Quotes