With the ‘recession ending back in 2009‘ thanks to 1.9 million fewer jobs and the Fed’s failure to secretly bail out GE, Harley-Davidson, Verizon, Toyota, Tesla Motors and foreign banks, it’s high time Obama spent our hard-earned money on a little something for himself:
(Washington Times) President Obama now claims there’s only $2 billion he can cut out of this year’s $3.6 trillion in federal outlays. He’s not looking very hard. The administration’s trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending spree spread millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars around places like the president’s boyhood home, Indonesia. Money that stayed within the country often wound up in the hands of debt-riddled, fly-by-night firms. This week, the White House continued to stonewall attempts to get to the bottom of where our money has been going.
On Friday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee delivered a subpoena to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ordering the disclosure of documents related to the $535 million loan guarantee the Department of Energy gave to Solyndra Inc. This firm has been dear to Democratic luminaries, from Energy Secretary Stephen Chu to the president himself. “The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra,” Mr. Obama said during a May 2010 visit.
No strangers to ‘Obama economic growth‘ here in the United States, the latest ‘success’ story comes from just across the pond:
The loan was meant to prop up a plant that would produce solar panels, ensuring the country would become more “green.” Instead, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show Solyndra’s books are nothing but red. The outfit lost $518,694,000 between 2007 and 2010 despite the massive infusion of public cash and private venture capital. OMB refused to disclose any documents that would shed light on why the government approved loans to this particular company.
The firm’s private investors include major donors to the Democratic Party, as do other recipients of the $11 billion Department of Energy slush fund used to dole out cash to so-called “clean technologies.” Absent these massive subsidies, the solar power industry would be about as large as the sundial manufacturing industry. Nonetheless, the Obama administration is desperate to paint intermittent energy sources as “the future.” It has no qualms about pouring billions in other people’s money into any product bearing the “green” label, even if that means handing over sacks of cash to foreigners.
Michelle says, ‘Obama’s home is Kenya’: HERE
Wall Street ‘masterminds’ baffled by slowing economy – prepare for QE3: HERE
Stimulus money went to foreign banks and industry: HERE and HERE
Jesse Jackson, ‘We need more stimulus’: HERE
False unemployment and phony jobs claim: HERE
Media fall for phony ‘jobs’ claim: HERE
Obama says, ‘There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalization as a threat, and those who accept it’: HERE
Bankrupt-Bankrupt GE to spend $30 billion as Obama administration continues to fund GE: HERE
Obama seeks $53 billion to fund ‘secretly’ bailed out GE for high-speed rail: HERE
General Electric going bankrupt: HERE and HERE
GE loves Obama joke, ‘shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected’: HERE
Bankrupt-Bailed-Out-Government-Owned-Tax-Free-Overseas-Job-Outsourcing GE Tells American Business Owners, ‘Stop Complaining About Big Government’: HERE
Obama administration buys 1-in-every-4 GM and Ford hybrids sold since 2008: HERE and HERE
Tesla Motors Awarded $465 Million in government funds: HERE
Obama, ‘I will not rest until I finish another round of golf’: HERE
Washington ComPost – ‘Never mind Obama’s fishy birth certificate, we’ll investigate Palin’s e-mails’: HERE
Obama plasters birth certificate on t-shirts, coffee mugs and forehead: HERE
Obama born in Hawaii because he says so: HERE
Obama and Abercrombie, Marxist pals: HERE
Obama organization endorses Communist Party: HERE