and when the last local fishwraps belly-up , who will be there to report on their demise?
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Lisa Vorderbrueggen is playing defense as well..
Fox rumble over Rep. George Miller and son misses some facts
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_19133336
Conservative TV pundits are painting Democratic Rep. George Miller and his lobbyist son George Miller IV as kingpins in solar company SunPower’s bid for $1.2 billion in federal loan guarantees that the critics call gambling with public money.
Hosts on “Fox & Friends” last week characterized San Jose-based SunPower as another “failing solar company.”
Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity denounced the Millers, with the latter saying the father “failed to mention his son, George Miller IV, is their top lobbyist at SunPower. ... Can it get any more unethical?”
It’s provocative, but the evidence falls short on several fronts.
Industry analysts say San Jose-based SunPower is struggling but nowhere near bankruptcy, and they describe the loan guarantee as low-risk for taxpayers. More significantly, Carlsbad-based NRG Energy, not SunPower, is on the hook to repay the loan, according to company representatives. NRG bought the project before the federal backing came through, although SunPower will design and build the solar farm in San Luis Obispo County.
And in another two years they will all be on unemployment once again and the taxpayers will pick up the bill, not to mention the squandered money to date.
Hahahahahahahahaha! Let’s not politicize this.....hahahahahaha! What’s good for the goose is good for the gander and the Democrats need to be goosed.
There--fixed it.
Then why do they need a loan?
How democrat party of them. When they’re responsible for blowing half a billion dollars on a scam, then it’s suddenly, “we need to all just get along.”
“Let’s not politicize Solyndra collapse”
Politicize it? I want to criminalize it.
It’s not a scandal when Dems do it......
Yes it will. By weeding out official corruption and vice there will be more money to invest in the real economy.
Yeah, it’s not like it is a scandal of a Republican Administration.
Somewhere, there’s a White House “talking points” memo that says exactly the same thing.
I've heard this argument elsewhere. If the government pumped money into the chocolate-covered-dog-turd-on-a-stick industry, I bet that the number of jobs in that industry would explode as well. Doesn't mean much, though.
The sheeple whose heads are stuck in the Leftist media ought to stick their heads up for once on hearing that the questioning of the Solyndra deals and Solyndra’s finances is a “politicization” of the issue.
Even they know that the giving of the taxpayers money to Solyndra in the first place, was due to politicization of both energy policy and environmental policy and little to the scientific or economic merits of the “stimulus” to so-called “green” energy companies.
Lying leftist shills-— remember when they viciously attacked Haliburton Co. when Bush was President? Last time we checked Haliburton didnt receive govt loans and go belly up costing the taxpayers over 500 million and they actually produce useful products too.
of course Silicon Valley does not want too much scrutiny on crony capitalist VC funding ventures
So what? That would be the case if we went from 1 green job to 2 jobs but it wouldn't indicate that green energy can produce any real jobs. To the contrary.
The INSTALLATION of the facility in SLO for solar energy generation mMIGHT create 350 jobs-—but only for the actual installation of the panels.
The final number of PERMANENT jobs is 12-——NOT 350.
The Mercury-Stooges are always good for a few laughs. I canceled my subscription years ago but every once in a while they throw some on my driveway. Each time reminds me why I canceled. The last time, I told them to stop; I already had enough kitty litter liner.