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Obama’s crony capitalism will end up costing American taxpayers billions of dollars. (CBS News) WASHINGTON - Solar panel maker Solyndra received a $528 million Energy Department loan in 2009 - and went bankrupt last year. The government's risky investment strategy didn't stop there, as a CBS News investigation has uncovered a pattern of cases of the government pouring your tax dollars into clean energy. Take Beacon Power -- a green energy storage company. We were surprised to learn exactly what the Energy Department knew before committing $43 million of your tax dollars. Documents obtained by CBS News show Standard and Poor's had confidentially given the project a dismal outlook of "CCC-plus." Read the documents Asked whether he'd put his personal money into Beacon, economist Peter Morici replied, "Not on purpose." "It's, it is a junk bond," Morici said. "But it's not even a good junk bond. It's well below investment grade." Was the Energy Department investing tax dollars in something that's not even a good junk bond? Morici says yes. "This level of bond has about a 70 percent chance of failing in the long term," he said. In fact, Beacon did go bankrupt two months ago and it's unclear whether taxpayers will get all their money back. And the feds made other loans when public documents indicate they should have known they could be throwing good money after bad. It's been four months since the FBI raided bankrupt Solyndra. It received a half-billion in tax dollars and became a political lightning rod, with Republicans claiming it was a politically motivated investment. CBS News counted 12 clean energy companies that are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. Five have filed for bankruptcy: The junk bond-rated Beacon, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AES' subsidiary Eastern Energy and Solyndra. Others are also struggling with potential problems. Nevada Geothermal -- a home state project personally endorsed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- warns of multiple potential defaults in new SEC filings reviewed by CBS News. It was already having trouble paying the bills when it received $98.5 million in Energy Department loan guarantees. SunPower landed a deal linked to a $1.2 billion loan guarantee last fall, after a French oil company took it over. On its last financial statement, SunPower owed more than it was worth. On its last financial statement, SunPower owed more than it was worth. SunPower's role is to design, build and initially operate and maintain the California Valley Solar Ranch Project that's the subject of the loan guarantee. First Solar was the biggest S&P 500 loser in 2011 and its CEO was cut loose - even as taxpayers were forced to back a whopping $3 billion in company loans. Nobody from the Energy Department would agree to an interview. Last November at a hearing on Solyndra, Energy Secretary Steven Chu strongly defended the government's attempts to bolster America's clean energy prospects. "In the coming decades, the clean energy sector is expected to grow by hundreds of billions of dollars," Chu said. "We are in a fierce global race to capture this market." Economist Morici says even somebody as smart as Secretary Chu -- an award-winning scientist -- shouldn't be playing "venture capitalist" with tax dollars. "Tasking a Nobel Prize mathematician to make investments for the U.S. government is like asking the manager of the New York Yankees to be general in charge of America's troops in Afghanistan," Morici said. "It's that absurd." http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57358484/tax-dollars-backing-some-risky-energy-projects/
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just another government created bubble popping
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i'd be more worried if none failed because that would mean nobody is taking any risks. everyone knows that risk is necessary, sometimes rewarded, and guarantees failure for some. if you want to make the case that the investments are stupid ones then you have to do better than this~
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individuals should take risks with their money, not the government.
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Bat_Avenger posted: individuals should take risks with their money, not the government.
how can the government do anything with tax money that doesn't include risk?
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Down with science! Up with camels and Big Oil payoffs!
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Teleportation would be awesome. Our government should sink everything we have into developing telportation pads.
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JD_HOGG posted: Teleportation would be awesome. Our government should sink everything we have into developing telportation pads.
And all human testing should be done with politicians as test subjects.
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Anebriated posted:
Bat_Avenger posted: individuals should take risks with their money, not the government.
how can the government do anything with tax money that doesn't include risk?
bingo!
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Someday I hope all of you "the best government is no government" idiots get your wish.
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no more roads then. building them is a risk with tax payers money. lol.
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Anebriated posted:
Bat_Avenger posted: individuals should take risks with their money, not the government.
how can the government do anything with tax money that doesn't include risk?
they can fix roads and bridges and stuff?
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Anebriated posted: no more roads then. building them is a risk with tax payers money. lol.
bingo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
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you found the risk-free way to build a bridge? we're saved
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if we took that 6.5billion and invested in the student loan problem, our economy would should a bit more improvement then this investment
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The current leaders in green tech are Germany and China. Both countries dump loads of federal monies into it, and as a result they have a near iron grip on the international market. The US hasn't created one single globally competitive job in the last 40 years. We can only create more insurance coders and x-ray techs, and gas station attendant jobs for immigrants because our own government is friggin owned by big medicine, big pharma, the insurance companies, and big oil. But whatever. Continue with what we're doing now and have been doing for 40 years! Cut all government regulation and cut all taxes like the republicans want. Obviously that will fix everything! Obviously current domestic stagnant tech markets will grow and prosper and out perform foreign trillion dollar subsidized markets. Stupid Americans. All we're good at is bitching about our own stupidity on a chat forum.
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The lack of concern for direct and indirect oil subsidies is more revealing than the expressed concerns.
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Second_Chance posted: The current leaders in green tech are Germany and China. Both countries dump loads of federal monies into it, and as a result they have a near iron grip on the international market. The US hasn't created one single globally competitive job in the last 40 years. We can only create more insurance coders and x-ray techs, and gas station attendant jobs for immigrants because our own government is friggin owned by big medicine, big pharma, the insurance companies, and big oil. But whatever. Continue with what we're doing now and have been doing for 40 years! Cut all government regulation and cut all taxes like the republicans want. Obviously that will fix everything! Obviously current domestic stagnant tech markets will grow and prosper and out perform foreign trillion dollar subsidized markets. Stupid Americans. All we're good at is bitching about our own stupidity on a chat forum.
nobody more so than you apparently
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Fozzie_Bear posted:
Second_Chance posted: The current leaders in green tech are Germany and China. Both countries dump loads of federal monies into it, and as a result they have a near iron grip on the international market. The US hasn't created one single globally competitive job in the last 40 years. We can only create more insurance coders and x-ray techs, and gas station attendant jobs for immigrants because our own government is friggin owned by big medicine, big pharma, the insurance companies, and big oil. But whatever. Continue with what we're doing now and have been doing for 40 years! Cut all government regulation and cut all taxes like the republicans want. Obviously that will fix everything! Obviously current domestic stagnant tech markets will grow and prosper and out perform foreign trillion dollar subsidized markets. Stupid Americans. All we're good at is bitching about our own stupidity on a chat forum.
nobody more so than you apparently
Your lack of letters matters less.
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Every new frontier of science has been pioneered through government funding. Every single one. Satellites, radar, computers, Internet, every huge leap in health care technology, wireless communication, the list goes on and on. The world as you know it wouldn't exist if the government did not outright fund or give out millions in loans or grants to invest in research.
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Bat_Avenger posted:
Anebriated posted: no more roads then. building them is a risk with tax payers money. lol.
bingo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
hilarious
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Second_Chance posted:
Fozzie_Bear posted:
Second_Chance posted: The current leaders in green tech are Germany and China. Both countries dump loads of federal monies into it, and as a result they have a near iron grip on the international market. The US hasn't created one single globally competitive job in the last 40 years. We can only create more insurance coders and x-ray techs, and gas station attendant jobs for immigrants because our own government is friggin owned by big medicine, big pharma, the insurance companies, and big oil. But whatever. Continue with what we're doing now and have been doing for 40 years! Cut all government regulation and cut all taxes like the republicans want. Obviously that will fix everything! Obviously current domestic stagnant tech markets will grow and prosper and out perform foreign trillion dollar subsidized markets. Stupid Americans. All we're good at is bitching about our own stupidity on a chat forum.
nobody more so than you apparently
Your lack of letters matters less.
perhaps you missed my beefy postcount! I clearly mean more than you so THERE!
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Fozzie_Bear posted: perhaps you missed my beefy postcount! I clearly mean more than you so THERE!
Respect the Fozzie! He and Mithan are tight.
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personally I couldnt give 2 craps about what Germany or whoever is doing whatever. In my opinion lets create some jobs and get people back to work. we dropped all this cash into these companies and all thats really gonna come of it is more people in the breadline? how is THAT good business?
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Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $1 trillion of US taxpayers' funds spent or approved for spending through 2011. Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles. Lost and Reported Stolen - $6.6 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money earmarked for Iraq reconstruction, reported on June 14, 2011 by Special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction Stuart Bowen who called it "the largest theft of funds in national history." (Source - CBS News) Last known holder of the $6.6 billion lost: the U.S. government. Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.) Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items - $20 billion Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion --------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah but all this waste is ok to the board Republicans while they rail about pennies invested that didn't pan out, how typical.
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You're right hyper. Fk it let's throw another trillion on the fire and maybe we won't be sending our kids to school with notes saying we can't afford to have them anymore like Greece. also http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/once-feared-lost-now-accounted-iraq-inspector-says-153935856.html they found the 6.6 billion
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Anebriated posted:
Bat_Avenger posted: individuals should take risks with their money, not the government.
how can the government do anything with tax money that doesn't include risk?
it shouldn't't have tax money
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mightbe posted: if we took that 6.5billion and invested in the student loan problem, our economy would should a bit more improvement then this investment
another statist advocate for a government bubble. The education bubble is about ready to pop anyways
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Second_Chance posted: The current leaders in green tech are Germany...
which is why so many of the stimulus contracts for wind farms went to germany! too bad that was geared to create work for Americans and they brought their own workers
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