Half a billion given to Finland to create green cars and jobs

[theDoctorisIn]

You guys - the fact that it is overseas is not the biggest problem
The outrage here should be that we have yet another example of where this administration has willfully threw taxpayer money down the drain for political reasons.

Look...between these two companies - over $1 Billion was loaned.
Company #1 - has only built 40 cars...FORTY CARS!!!!!!!!!!!
Company #2 - Tesla has been bleeding money from day one and is fully expected to go belly up without a constant feeding of public money.

THIS - is the outrage.

Tesla isn't anywhere near going "belly up". They just had an incredibly successful IPO, and and the corporation is well in the black. The only federal money they received was from a Bush program back in 2009.

Was BUSH in office in '09?

Bush started the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, which is where Tesla got the loans from.