What do Republicans think a "good" salary is for skilled and unskilled workers?

[EdwardBaiamonte]

And yet it was the republicans who blew the lid off the deficit spending cookie jar in 2003

to stupid!!! as if the liberals didn't want even more spending than the Republicans and yet it was the Republicans who introduced 30 balanced budget amendments since jefferson's first and yet it was Democrats who killed everyone of them.

See why we are positive a lliberal will be slow??

 

[rdean]

And yet it was the republicans who blew the lid off the deficit spending cookie jar in 2003

to stupid!!! as if the liberals didn't want even more spending than the Republicans

Depends on what you spend it on. It's why the economy grows and deficits shrink under Democrats. Because they believe in investment to spur economic growth.

Republicans believe "corporations make jobs" apparently not understanding the connection between "demand" and "job growth". Nothing the Republicans propose helps the engine of economic growth, which is the Middle Class. That's just the way things work in this world.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Because they believe in investment to spur economic growth.

actually those who earn the money they invest do it far more carefully than libturds investing other people's money. This is why the USA succeeded and the USSR failed. People wash their own car not the car they rent. Simple enough for you?



Washington Post Marc Theisson

● Raser Technologies. In 2010, the Obama administration gave Raser a $33 million taxpayer-funded grant to build a power plant in Beaver Creek, Utah. According to the Wall Street Journal, after burning through our tax dollars, the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012. The plant now has fewer than 10 employees, and Raser owes $1.5 million in back taxes.

● ECOtality. The Obama administration gave ECOtality $126.2 million in taxpayer money in 2009 for, among other things, the installation of 14,000 electric car chargers in five states. Obama even hosted the company’s president, Don Karner, in the first lady’s box during the 2010 State of the Union address as an example of a stimulus success story. According to ECOtality’s own SEC filings, the company has since incurred more than $45 million in losses and has told the federal government, “We may not achieve or sustain profitability on a quarterly or annual basis in the future.”

Worse, according to CBS News the company is “under investigation for insider trading,” and Karner has been subpoenaed “for any and all documentation surrounding the public announcement of the first Department of Energy grant to the company.”

● Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP). The Obama administration gave NGP a $98.5 million taxpayer loan guarantee in 2010. The New York Times reported last October that the company is in “financial turmoil” and that “[a]fter a series of technical missteps that are draining Nevada Geothermal’s cash reserves, its own auditor concluded in a filing released last week that there was ‘significant doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.’ ”

● First Solar. The Obama administration provided First Solar with more than $3 billion in loan guarantees for power plants in Arizona and California. According to a Bloomberg Businessweek report last week, the company “fell to a record low in Nasdaq Stock Market trading May 4 after reporting $401 million in restructuring costs tied to firing 30 percent of its workforce.”

● Abound Solar, Inc. The Obama administration gave Abound Solar a $400 million loan guarantee to build photovoltaic panel factories. According to Forbes, in February the company halted production and laid off 180 employees.

● Beacon Power. The Obama administration gave Beacon — a green-energy storage company — a $43 million loan guarantee. According to CBS News, at the time of the loan, “Standard and Poor’s had confidentially given the project a dismal outlook of ‘CCC-plus.’ ” In the fall of 2011, Beacon received a delisting notice from Nasdaq and filed for bankruptcy.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. A company called SunPower got a $1.2 billion loan guarantee from the Obama administration, and as of January, the company owed more than it was worth. Brightsource got a $1.6 billion loan guarantee and posted a string of net losses totaling $177 million. And, of course, let’s not forget Solyndra — the solar panel manufacturer that received $535 million in taxpayer-funded loan guarantees and went bankrupt, leaving taxpayers on the hook.