Posted on 08/17/2011 7:03:44 AM PDT by MichCapCon
When Evergreen Solar announced it was filing bankruptcy this week, the news sparked a flurry of stories pointing out how the “green” solar panel company had received money from the federal stimulus.
The Massachusetts-based company was held up as another example of wasted taxpayers’ dollars under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
But Evergreen Solar may be a better example of just how complicated and difficult it can be to track the massive $821 billion federal stimulus.
Because despite the White House and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick both citing Evergreen Solar as receiving stimulus money, the government’s website that tracks ARRA spending could find no evidence the solar panel company did indeed get that money...
(Excerpt) Read more at michigancapitolconfidential.com ...
I saw an article that the cost per sign was somewhere around 2000 on average in Oregon.
That included everything, from graphic design to digging the hole etc..
No idea how many signs were put up though
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