Wasteful Spending Spin vs Fact
5/10/12 AFP Blog
Spin: AFP claims the administration gave Fisker millions to build cars in Finland. Um, no.
Fact: Um, yes! Fisker was given American taxpayer dollars to subsidize production of a luxury sports car which is assembled in Finland and costs $102,000. While some of the parts are manufactured in the U.S., thats hardly justification to pretend Americans arent subsidizing jobs in Finland. By the way, these cars have been catching on fire lately, leading to hundreds of recalls.
Spin: Fisker is employing 700 workers in California.
Fact: It didnt take Neil Munro of the Daily Caller long to figure out that number was off by 40%.
Spin: Fisker is planning on building a plant in Delaware.
Fact: If Fisker was planning on building a plant before, thats not likely happening now. Back in 2009, Joe Biden announced Fisker would be given $529 million from the Department of Energy to take over the old General Motors Boxwood Road plant outside Wilmington, Delaware.
At that time Biden promised, "This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars in good new jobs." From there, the story plays out much like Solyndra. Fisker has since fired most of the Delaware workers, and now there are only a few caretakers at the plant. As ABC News reports, two years after the loan was announced, the company's manufacturing jobs are still limited to the assembly of the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car in Finland.
Spin: AFP claims we gave tens of millions to build traffic lights in China. Thats wrong again. The traffic lights were assembled here, in this country.
Fact: Another half-truth from Ms. Cutter. As the Tribune-Review describes, the energy efficient traffic lights were assembled here, after using taxpayer money to buy tens of millions of dollars in parts built in China. More taxpayer money being sent overseas.
Spin: AFP said we gave money to a company building a solar plant in Mexico. Nope wrong again.
Fact: This is just an outright lie. Green energy company SunPower was given a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee a few weeks after announcing it was building a new plant in Mexico. SunPower also had a plant in California, which doesnt change a single thing. American taxpayers were being forced to subsidize a solar company who was investing in other countries. Ready for another big surprise? SunPower is owned by a French oil company.
Spin: They will literally say anything. They oppose expanding clean energy, they oppose higher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, so were going to call their B.S. when we see it.
Fact: Call it whatever you want Ms. Cutter. You and your terrible fact checker ally at Washington Post are pumping out fact-warping campaign rhetoric as fast as you can, without regard for the truth. Fortunately, the American people live in the real economy and see things for what they are, not through the rose-colored reelection campaign goggles youre currently wearing.
Bonus Spin: Obama has helped create hundreds of thousands of clean-energy jobs, projects in all 50 states.
Fact: Obama tried making these bogus claims in his previous ad attacking AFP, only then he claimed to have created 2.7 million clean energy jobs during his first term as president, citing the Brookings Institution article written last year.
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5/10/12 AFP Blog
Spin: AFP claims the administration gave Fisker millions to build cars in Finland. Um, no.
Fact: Um, yes! Fisker was given American taxpayer dollars to subsidize production of a luxury sports car which is assembled in Finland and costs $102,000. While some of the parts are manufactured in the U.S., thats hardly justification to pretend Americans arent subsidizing jobs in Finland. By the way, these cars have been catching on fire lately, leading to hundreds of recalls.
Spin: Fisker is employing 700 workers in California.
Fact: It didnt take Neil Munro of the Daily Caller long to figure out that number was off by 40%.
Spin: Fisker is planning on building a plant in Delaware.
Fact: If Fisker was planning on building a plant before, thats not likely happening now. Back in 2009, Joe Biden announced Fisker would be given $529 million from the Department of Energy to take over the old General Motors Boxwood Road plant outside Wilmington, Delaware.
At that time Biden promised, "This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars in good new jobs." From there, the story plays out much like Solyndra. Fisker has since fired most of the Delaware workers, and now there are only a few caretakers at the plant. As ABC News reports, two years after the loan was announced, the company's manufacturing jobs are still limited to the assembly of the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car in Finland.
Spin: AFP claims we gave tens of millions to build traffic lights in China. Thats wrong again. The traffic lights were assembled here, in this country.
Fact: Another half-truth from Ms. Cutter. As the Tribune-Review describes, the energy efficient traffic lights were assembled here, after using taxpayer money to buy tens of millions of dollars in parts built in China. More taxpayer money being sent overseas.
Spin: AFP said we gave money to a company building a solar plant in Mexico. Nope wrong again.
Fact: This is just an outright lie. Green energy company SunPower was given a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee a few weeks after announcing it was building a new plant in Mexico. SunPower also had a plant in California, which doesnt change a single thing. American taxpayers were being forced to subsidize a solar company who was investing in other countries. Ready for another big surprise? SunPower is owned by a French oil company.
Spin: They will literally say anything. They oppose expanding clean energy, they oppose higher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, so were going to call their B.S. when we see it.
Fact: Call it whatever you want Ms. Cutter. You and your terrible fact checker ally at Washington Post are pumping out fact-warping campaign rhetoric as fast as you can, without regard for the truth. Fortunately, the American people live in the real economy and see things for what they are, not through the rose-colored reelection campaign goggles youre currently wearing.
Bonus Spin: Obama has helped create hundreds of thousands of clean-energy jobs, projects in all 50 states.
Fact: Obama tried making these bogus claims in his previous ad attacking AFP, only then he claimed to have created 2.7 million clean energy jobs during his first term as president, citing the Brookings Institution article written last year.
Read more: Wasteful Spending Spin vs Fact | Americans for Prosperity