[Sub-Driver]

Fib.........

[ExCTCitizen]

The solar energy start-up Solyndra, which had been the poster child of Obama’s initiative, went bankrupt in 2011, putting 1,000 employees out of work.

If you are a start up company, you don't hire 1,000 people off the bat. When my parents started their company..they hired me, my brothers and my sister. They didn't hire 1,000 people. (I doubt Sam Walton or Michael Dell or Steve Jobs hired 1,000 within the first 5 years.) My parents company to this day only has 13 employees and they started it 42 years ago.

[stylin19a]

Congress just made funds available. Who pressured OMB to approve this loan with a sweetheart interest rate after the previous administration held up approval because of crappy financials ?

"The August 2009 e-mails, released exclusively to The Washington Post, show White House officials repeatedly asking OMB reviewers when they would be able to decide on the federal loan and noting a looming press event at which they planned to announce the deal.

In response, OMB officials expressed concern that they were being rushed to approve the company’s project without adequate time to assess the risk to taxpayers, according to information provided by Republican congressional investigators."

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This was not our sledge, per se.