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DOE Spends Taxpayers’ Money While A123 Goes Bankrupt

Institute for Energy Research -- The [A123] plant’s opening “is about the birth of an entire new industry in America — an industry that’s going to be central to the next generation of cars,” President Obama said during a call to A123 Systems in September 2010. “And it’s going to allow us to start exporting those cars, making them comfortable, convenient and affordable. It helps our manufacturing industry to thrive, and with it, that means our communities and our states and our country are going to thrive.”

President Obama also thanked Energy Secretary Steven Chu “for his extraordinary work to get the money out the door quickly and wisely.” Politico Pro, October 16, 2012.

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America needs cars, not Twinkies.
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Figures...
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Recycled news.
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This tax payer wants the government to support green energy.
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"The company ran into trouble after producing defective battery packs that caused Fisker to recall its expensive Karma sedans."

Irony.

Is a non-profit political front group run by Libertarians ironic? Maybe.
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Another of Obama's investments goes sour. Makes one wonder how he is doing with his personal investments?
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Crazy
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jkpsr said: "We need the technology. A few bumps on the road are enviable."

I'm going to assume that you really meant "inevitable" rather than "enviable." Still, when they hand out $4.2 MILLION dollars in bonuses to 10 (TEN? Really?) employees "for staying on the payroll as the company’s assets are sold" I don't know whether to laugh or cry. On one hand it takes a incredible amount of bravado (a euphemism for Big B@lls) to do that while you're slamming the door on a $249M grant, and on the other hand I sure wish I had a job like that even for just a couple of weeks. At my current rate it will take me several years to make the $420K (average) of those bonuses, and I have to work damn hard for it. What did those ten people have to do to "earn" those bonuses? And how much "regular salary" did they make while they were earning all that extra money?

The government gets way too much of the little I earn as it is. The least they (it?) could do is try to spend it on something that has some actual value.
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Typical obama, must be family member has some stock ownership.
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This is criminal and should subject those within the now bankrupt company to both criminal charges and civil penalties as well as personal accountability for perpetuating fraud... And the government officials who literally passed out tax dollars away on a faltering company should be terminated ~ that's right FIRED!
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Another example of Obama giving our tax dollars to his donors nd them getting away with it
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What else is new.
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Typical of O and how he wastes the taxpayer's money.
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Really?
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Another wast of our tax dollars.

. It never ends.
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Let us pray he is doing the right thing as opposed to wasting money (tax-payers) on a dead system.
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there goes the money
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Not all business thrive, it's just to bad it was our money that went down the tubes.
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spend wisely.
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I guess it is a problem when it is government money. But other start ups go bankrupt all the time. We just see more of it when it is the government mistakes. However we should track all the waste and the over spending on things we do not really need just to keep local economies going. There will be some hard times as some of these things are cut back, as they should be.
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they just like to waste money, its not theirs
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Government Waste!
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There goes our money
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My money out the window!
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They need and get handouts whether we need the technology or not. What is our return on investment?AND IT'S NOT OK.

[Edited by: jtfftj at 11/25/2012 12:10:11 AM EST]
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More tax payer money up in smoke.
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Yet no one blinks an eye at the trillions we wasted on those wars.
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We need the technology. A few bumps on the road are enviable.
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So, what else is new!!!
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We always knew it was a hoax.
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Why this? Nothing to do with gas prices.
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Why should he care its not his money, so keep spending, its only money...
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another Obama winner
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