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Obama's Labor Department Approves Deal Giving Ex-Solyndra Staff $13,000 Each In Federal Aid
Fox Nation ^ | 11/21/2011 | Sean Higgins

Posted on 11/21/2011 4:54:01 PM PST by txroadkill

The Labor Department today announced that it had approved Trade Adjustment Assistance for the former employees of the bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra.

That means all of the firm’s 1,100 ex-employees are eligible for federal aid packages, including job retraining and income assistance. The department has valued packages at about $13,000 a head.

(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 13000; dncrico; obama; solyndra; solyndra13000; solyndragate; solyndrahushmoney; solyndrapayout; soyndra; taxpayerhushmoney
Are you Sh!#ing me?!?!?
1 posted on 11/21/2011 4:54:05 PM PST by txroadkill
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To: txroadkill

Another department for Perry to get rid of.


2 posted on 11/21/2011 4:57:34 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: txroadkill

The graft that keeps on giving.


3 posted on 11/21/2011 4:59:28 PM PST by digger48
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To: txroadkill

Someone forgot the satire tag...


4 posted on 11/21/2011 4:59:42 PM PST by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: txroadkill

More payback for the pay-to-play from our thug administration. Buying protection, like the old racketeering days....Chicago style. The GREEN SCAM is just that — pay-to-play money laundering for Obama.

Where do you think his billion in campaign dollars is going to come from??


5 posted on 11/21/2011 4:59:59 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: txroadkill
Communists King still feeding his comrades.
6 posted on 11/21/2011 5:01:04 PM PST by Logical me
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To: txroadkill
TAA is for instances where foreign competition shut down your factory. What foreign concern shuttered Solyndra, despite massive federal aid?
7 posted on 11/21/2011 5:04:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: txroadkill
$14,300,000
8 posted on 11/21/2011 5:09:45 PM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

China - but they knew about that before they gave Solyndra our money.


9 posted on 11/21/2011 5:19:23 PM PST by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: txroadkill
Hussein is only adding insult to inury.

That's all I will allow myself to say.

10 posted on 11/21/2011 5:48:03 PM PST by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: txroadkill

The American taxpayer was forced to invest in a company that had a fraudulent going concern statement in their prospectus...


11 posted on 11/21/2011 5:57:56 PM PST by databoss
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To: txroadkill

0bama isn’t done milkin’ that cow is he? Milk it until it’s deader than dead and laugh all the way to his campaign fund account.


12 posted on 11/21/2011 6:28:11 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: txroadkill
and America takes another one in the........

13 posted on 11/21/2011 6:30:20 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

It never friggin ends with this Muslim POS.


14 posted on 11/21/2011 6:50:08 PM PST by Venturer
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