$4 billion in green-tech stimulus funds went to WH-connected firms

[Nemo]

Federal funds flow to clean-energy firms with Obama administration ties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/venture-capitalists-play-key-role-in-obamas-energy-department/2011/12/30/gIQA05raER_story.html


'..................Overall, the Post found that $3.9 billion in federal grants and financing flowed to 21 companies backed by firms with connections to five Obama administration staffers and advisers.





Republican candidates are zeroing in on the administration’s decision to extend $535 million to the now-shuttered solar firm Solyndra and billions of dollars more to clean-tech start-ups backed by the president’s political allies..........."





Solyndra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-pushed-500-million-loan-to-solar-company-now-under-investigation/2011/09/13/gIQAr3WbQK_story.html

[RH Goatcabin]

Hippy fail.

[JDs tees]

If companies with tenuous connections to any administration can't get money, then no one would get money ever. Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, etc etc

[BeetTheBoxer]

change we can believe in

[Little Joey]

I'm suprised the Washington Post even wrote the story. Usually negative stories about Democrats come from the Wash. Times or the WSJ. Kudos for them for printing the story.

[HeinousMark]

Outrageous! That money could be going to oil and gas companies, coal/lignite power plants, and a host of other, decent, Republican-tied, non-green entities!:mad:

[Yellowfever]

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001270021/obama_fail_smoke_xlarge.jpeg

[SleepingWarrior]

Outrageous! That money could be going to oil and gas companies, coal/lignite power plants, and a host of other, decent, Republican-tied, non-green entities!:mad:

If by that you mean things that actually work then yes, that money should be going towards those things.

[Jack Shit]

If we don't give tax breaks to oil companies, the terrorists win.

:grouch:

[SleepingWarrior]

If we don't give tax breaks to oil companies, the terrorists win.

:grouch:


How about no tax breaks for any of this shit? Let industries rise and fall on their merits instead of the fucking government picking the winners and losers.

[JDs tees]

*whines about government funded subsidies

*posts on the Internet

[BeetTheBoxer]

How about no tax breaks for any of this shit? Let industries rise and fall on their merits instead of the fucking government picking the winners and losers.

OK, how about it?