I’m sure this is somehow George Bush’s fault
(Heritage) A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy earlier this year announced Wednesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the second taxpayer-backed green energy company to file for bankruptcy this week.
Satcon Technology Corp. announced the decision in a Wednesday news release. “This has been a difficult time for Satcon,†president and CEO Steve Rhoades said. “After careful consideration of available alternatives, the Company’s Board of Directors determined that the Chapter 11 filings were a necessary and prudent step, allowing the Company to continue to operate while giving us the opportunity to reorganize with a stronger balance sheet and capital structure.â€
Satcon received a $3 million DOE grant in January to develop “a compact, lightweight power conversion device that is capable of taking utility-scale solar power and outputting it directly into the electric utility grid at distribution voltage levels—eliminating the need for large transformers.â€
Now, I’m sure some on the Left will proudly proclaim that $3 million is a drop in the bucket, which is true, but, it doesn’t deflect from the point that the Obama administration (and government in general) is highly wasteful with the money that is forcibly taken from the citizens of America….those who have jobs, that is, and haven’t given up on the jobs market in despair. Well over a million kids could be served a meal at school with that money. This is one of the ways we have nickle and dimed ourselves to $16 trillion in debt.
The US government is the ultimate 1%er, except they are pissing away Other People’s money rather than they’re own on silly projects which are bound to fail.
And, just as big a point is that the Obama admin. is attempting to pick winners and losers in the private sector, and mostly picking losers. The Lonely Conservative points to a list from Heritage of all the “green” companies that the Obama admin has invested taxpayer money in which have failed. Satcon makes 36.
Gee Teach just teh other day you were all whiney over Gore making so much money on firms that were soooo profiable. Now you are complaining about a 3 mill loss. That isn’t even a nickle or dime amount, it is a penny per person amount. We did not nickle or dime ourselves into debt, and remember it was the GOP Congress and White House that turned our economy around. We had a budget SURPLUS under Clinton, than we had 2 unfunded waers AND huge tax cuts for the extremely wealthy
Right. Here we go again, the Clinton Surplus.
http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/craigsteiner/2011/08/22/the_clinton_surplus_myth/page/full/
wow.. silly idiot gets one right every now and then i guess. It was right, it was the GOP congress that pressured the Democrat Senate to pass the certain budgets to create a couple of years of surplus.
But, then the greedy of America and COngress decided that an annual surplus was too much to allow to remain, in order to reduce deficit.
And, why is it OK to pay TRILLIONS to untried, unwanted crony-related energy-non-energy companies, but not to protecting america from terrorists?
And, tax cuts are never a loss in government revenue. It was never the government’s to begin with. Tax cuts are “allowing” the common working people to keep their money.
I’m just sick and tired of people thinking that our government has a RIGHT to certain level of tax funding. (not revenue).
John, Gore makes his money by getting morons to purchase carbon credits.
Government wasting 3 million on bullshit like this company is a disgrace.
$3 million here.. $3 million there.
Soon, you’re talking about $2 TRILLION in wasted tax dollars and $16 friggin TRILLION dollars in debt.
Time to start finding, acknowledging and trimming this waste of a budget. Soon.
We need term limits so that elected officials reduce the money they waste on getting reelected.