No sooner had president-elect Trump announced a deal had been reached with air conditioner manufacturer Carrier to keep 1,100 manufacturing jobs in Indiana rather than being shipped to Mexico, the usual suspects began chattering about “corporate welfare”, “crony capitalism”, and the hypocritical picking of winners and losers.
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Obama’s Titanic Solyndra Scam Sinking
September 25, 2011“Solyndra: Obama’s Marble Boat’ by Clarice Feldman – American Thinker/
The dowager empress of China, Cixi, famously took the admiralty funds intended for building up an Imperial Admiralty and used them to construct a boat carved of marble on the shore of Kumming Lake for her amusement and the pleasure of her royal entourage. The embezzlement was condoned by the controller of the Admiralty, despite the disadvantage to the nation, because he owed his position to Cixi.
Solyndra is Obama’s equivalent of the Marble Boat. It represents, we think, what may be the largest in a series of enormous federal expenditures to Obama’s friends and supporters for their benefit and to buy him votes, with others deluded into thinking that traditional energy is too destructive of the planet and too cheap for our own good. Just as Cixi’s marble boat impoverished China and placed it at risk, the foolish actions of this administration impoverish us and place us at risk. But the optics!