Posted on 03/22/2012 9:24:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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At the nations largest solar energy plant Wednesday, President Obama doubled down on his commitment to government subsidies for clean energy technology and green jobs and deflected blame for instances when those investments have failed.
Are you doing your all-of-the-above strategy right if thats what we have to show for it Solyndra? asked Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace on American Public Media, in an interview with Obama.
The solar energy start-up Solyndra, which had been the poster child of Obamas initiative, went bankrupt in 2011, putting 1,000 employees out of work. It had received more than $500 million in federal loan guarantees through a Recovery Act program. The loan process is now the subject of a congressional investigation.
Obviously, we wish Solyndra hadnt gone bankrupt, Obama said. But understand: This was not our program per se.
Congress Democrats and Republicans put together a loan guarantee program because they understood historically that when you get new industries, its easy to raise money for start-ups, but if you want to take them to scale, oftentimes theres a lot of risk involved, and what the loan guarantee program was designed to do was to help start up companies get to scale, he said.
Obama mischaracterizes congressional support for the program, however. The loan to Solyndra was not part of a program developed by both Republicans and Democrats. Rather, it was entirely funded through the 2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which did not receive any GOP votes.
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If we had a Republican Party, 50& of the posts here, wouldn’t be here.
This was not our sledge, per se.
I made myself laugh though, and that's important.
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