Yeah, I never thought that an Administration would give a half-billion dollars to a company everyone said was about to go under, too...
...and then came Solyndra.
I wish I knew someone in DC so I could get in on one of those deals. Set me up with a cool hundred mil for a company that doesn't do anything and goes tits up in six months.
Yeah, because it's all connected. It's one big connected liberal conspiracy.....
(Seriously, stay off the meth).
You're just not paying attention.
Naming Names ? Obama Contributors and the Stimulus Scandal
Companies
Goldman Sachs: Owns Cogentrix and US Geothermal. Donated over $1 million to Barack Obama. Received $96.8 million in stimulus funding.
BP Oil: Gave more money to Barack Obama than to any other candidate in 20 years. BP Oil received $308 million in stimulus funding. BP Oil was the only oil company in the world to receive free stimulus grants. A government audit revealed that the $308 million created a total of 23 jobs.
Individuals
Nancy Ann DeParle: Granite Reliable Wind, CCMP Capital, White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
Steve Westly: Owned interests in Tesla, Recyclebank, Edinq, Amirys Biotech. Was an Obama donor, then Obama campaign Chair, then appointed to President Obamas Dept of Energy Advisory Board. Took part ownership to two more stimulus recipients; Amonix and Cal Star Products.
Ian Cumming: CEO of Leucadia National, owns Leucadia Energy which has only 1 employee. Appointed to Obamas National Finance Committee. Received $3.4 billion in stimulus funding.
Louis Susman: Vice Chair of Citigroup Global Partners, part owner of Solar Trust America, Obama bundler, appointed to Obamas National Finance Committee. Received $2.1 billion in stimulus funding.
Michael Freeman: Obama classmate, then Obama bundler, then Citi-Alternatives CEO, then Deputy White House National Security Advisor. Citi-Alternatives was part owner of Solar Reserve which received $737 million in stimulus funding from the Dept of Energy.
Robert Kennedy Jr.: Son of the famous Robert Kennedy. Brightsource and Vantage Point Partners (25% owner). After his high-profile endorsement switch from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama, Kennedys company took home $1.4 billion in stimulus funding.
Pat Stryker: Owns Bohemian Co. and Abound Solar. Made $1.4 million in contributions to Barack Obama and the DNC. Received $400 million in grants from the Obama administration.
Jim Rogers: Duke Energy CEO. Used Duke Energy corporate money to guarantee a $10 million line of credit to the DNC for the 2012 Democratic Presidential nominating convention. Received $290.4 million. An audit revealed that $90.4 million in stimulus money was paid to Duke for a project that had long been completed already.
Bob Nelson: Member of Obamas National Finance Committee. Founding Partner of ARCH Venture Partners which owns Sapphire Energy. Received $135 million in stimulus funding.
Michael Polsky: Obama donor, DNC donor. Paid for part of Barack Obamas 2009 inauguration. CEO of Invenergy LLC, which owns Vantage Wind. Received $128 million in stimulus funding.
Eric Redmond: Former Democratic Senate staffer. DNC donor. CEO of Summit Energy. Received $1.5 billion in stimulus funding. Government audit revealed the $1.5 billion created 8 jobs.
Vinod Khosla: Obama donor, DNC donor, Obama advisor. Part owner of Coskata which received $250 million in stimulus funds. Part owner of Nordic Wind Power which received $16 million in stimulus funding. Part owner of Alta Rock which received $25 million in stimulus funding.
Cathy Zoi: Dept of Energy Grant Director during the stimulus funding. Left the DOE in 2011 to work for George Soros.
Warren Buffett: The #1 profiteer of the taxpayer funded stimulus program. Obama donor since 2004 when the future President was an unknown Illinois State Senator. In 2008, Buffett became one of the Presidents Senior Economic Advisors. Buffett lobbied hard for the $700 billion dollar bank bailout called TARP, as well as the near trillion dollar stimulus program. Buffett-owned banks just happened to receive $95 billion of the $700 billion bank bailout. In fact, 30 percent of all of Warren Buffett-owned companies received TARP bailout money. Of the $787 billion dollar stimulus funding, its almost impossible to calculate how much of it ended up in Warren Buffetts pockets. To have one example however, just one company owned by Warren Buffett Burlington Northern is in the federal governments database of stimulus spending under 1,800 different projects.
For more information on Warren Buffett, read the Whiteout Press article, Warren Buffett, the Devil in the Details.
George Soros: The #2 profiteer of the taxpayer funded stimulus program. Also began funding Barack Obama in 2004 when he was an unknown Illinois State Senator. Funds the Democratic Party with millions of dollars in contributions. During stimulus planning, Soros held regular meetings with White House officials including Obama Senior Economic Advisor Larry Summers. Soros funded the Center for American Progress, an Obama front group. John Podesta moved from Barack Obamas White House Transition Director to executive director of Soros Center for American Progress. While meeting with White House staff and advising the President on stimulus spending, Soros was quietly purchasing shares of companies that would receive funding.
Now try to refute this with something other than "Nuh-UH!!"