[Jonty30]

All that mattered was the billions of dollars that went to government to industry insiders.

[RoosterRedux]

That's exactly right. It's about nothing but corporate cronyism.

There's an old rule that whenever politics gets involved in anything--science, education, the media, energy production, racial harmony, even art--that thing is ruined.

That adage is true except for those trying (dishonestly) to make money on the thing that is ruined.