bitterlyclingin
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(Just when you thought you'd seen the worst of Obama's Crony Capitalism, this tidbit appears in the news. Apparently the key to getting your fingers into the US Treasury's till, and whatever sums of taxpayer's dollars your heart desires, was to bundle some election funds for Barry. Cars built in Finland with Chinese engines funded under the stimulus? Whats 787 billion dollars between friends anyway? "The taxpayers will never notice. Besides, if they do, I'll just blind them with a smile and a speech, and it'll be all cool.")
"It’s a gorgeous vehicle, manufactured in Finland and sporting a Chinese engine. Rich people like Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore (both of whom made their fortunes by peddling fiction) are lining up to buy it. Nothing wrong with that; if I had the money I might buy one myself, even though the car doesn’t get especially good mileage. But there is just one thing: the Obama administration has invested $529 million in taxpayer money to help develop the Fisker Karma. That’s right–it’s another “green jobs” scam, except that if any jobs are being saved or created, they are in Finland and China.
Why on Earth would Barack Obama subsidize Finnish workers and fantastically rich Americans? For the usual reason:
Fisker’s top investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a veteran Silicon Valley venture-capital firm of which [Al] Gore is a partner. Employees of KPCB have donated more than $2.2 million to political campaigns, mostly for Democrats, including President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign contributions."
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/10/solyndra-on-wheels.php
"It’s a gorgeous vehicle, manufactured in Finland and sporting a Chinese engine. Rich people like Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore (both of whom made their fortunes by peddling fiction) are lining up to buy it. Nothing wrong with that; if I had the money I might buy one myself, even though the car doesn’t get especially good mileage. But there is just one thing: the Obama administration has invested $529 million in taxpayer money to help develop the Fisker Karma. That’s right–it’s another “green jobs” scam, except that if any jobs are being saved or created, they are in Finland and China.
Why on Earth would Barack Obama subsidize Finnish workers and fantastically rich Americans? For the usual reason:
Fisker’s top investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a veteran Silicon Valley venture-capital firm of which [Al] Gore is a partner. Employees of KPCB have donated more than $2.2 million to political campaigns, mostly for Democrats, including President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign contributions."
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/10/solyndra-on-wheels.php
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