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NPR: Surprising Areas See Growth In Green Jobs
NPR.com ^
| September 2, 2011
| by Wendy Kaufman
Posted on 09/02/2011 6:05:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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The over/under for Ashlawn Energy's bankruptcy is 4 months.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:08:47 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
NPR....stuck on stupid as usual.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:10:52 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"We would not have been able to do this without stimulus funds because there was too much risk for a private equity investor," Startari says.Unlike gummit, the private sector knows a boondoggle when it sees one.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:11:08 AM PDT
by
bray
(The Country Club opens with prayers against Palin)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The over/under for Ashlawn Energy's bankruptcy is 4 months. Ashlawn will probably do what Solyndra did. Take a big chunk of that stimulus money and lobby congress with it. That should buy them at least a year or two, and it keeps the money circulating.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:11:41 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: Oldeconomybuyer
remember that every subsidized “job” costs the economy real jobs.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:14:24 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: unixfox
Hmm, sounds like I need to purchase some put options!
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:15:13 AM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
To: bray
“We would not have been able to do this without stimulus funds because there was too much risk for a private equity investor,” Startari says.
Microsoft started in Bill Gate’s garage.
Of course with all the regulations the obama thugistration has imposed it’s probably a safe bet that there will never be another Microsoft while the progressives are in charge.
Now they are trying to destroy Gibson Guitars! Musicians the world over should be outraged over this!
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:16:23 AM PDT
by
Castigar
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They got $3.5 million and created a dozen jobs. Obama considers that a success, and by Federal Gov’t standards (oops, the Federal Family standards) I guess he’s right.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Golly, that only $291,666.00 per job! Great Job, Mr. O!
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:19:08 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
(Mr. Obama can't count.)
To: fhayek
After Solyndra..will Obama next week again talk about “investing” in green jobs...??
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:22:22 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Should Christie RUN in 2012? NO!!! But he should WALK three miles every day!)
To: fhayek
More like take the money, develop the process and buy the capital equipment, find a chinese buyer, set yourself up as a technical consultant for the chinese buyer, run the company into the ground, declare bankruptcy, liquidate the assets (that were bought up for pennies on the dollar by a convenient chinese buyer), and make some serious cash, courtesy of the unassuming US taxpayer. People labor under the illusion that all businessmen are honorable.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:22:57 AM PDT
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
NPR has probably been on Defcon 1 alert trying to find something, anything to counter the closure of the solar panel plant in Massachusetts. And this is all they could come up with; maybe 200 jobs in four years (bankruptcy being more likely).
Our tax dollars at work.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:26:48 AM PDT
by
Will88
To: Oldeconomybuyer
All such enterprises are depending on government subsidies and Cap and Trade or other market distorting policies giving them unwilling customers.
A 4 month over/under may be generous.
Nobody seems to remember Jimmy Carter and his Synfuels Corporation.
To: GeronL
Shovel ready:
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:31:14 AM PDT
by
ken21
(ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
To: factoryrat
You forgot the part about democRat campaign donations.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:32:19 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Quick, call NPR...my kid opened a lemonaide stand which uses no fossil fuel.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:32:53 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Will88
California, but otherwise you are right, they are desperate because the gravy train is the only thing keeping the solar market artificially pumped up on Wall St.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:33:04 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The reason that outside-market stimulus does not create jobs is that unless the company can generate a profit, it can’t keep paying people whose work does not pay for itself.
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posted on
09/02/2011 6:38:15 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
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