Obama to tout green energy ‘investments’ at solar facility employing 5 workers

Obama to tout green energy ‘investments’ at solar facility employing 5 workers, relying on $54 million in taxpayer subsidies. That’s $10.8 million for each job “created” to produce solar energy costing 3.5 times as much as energy produced by old-fashioned racist fuels. OK, it looks bad now, but wait until the perpetual motion machine factory gets going. Unicorn cold-cuts, anyone?

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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  • The gall of this man to actually BLAME Republicans for Solyndra's failure! He blames the Republicans for the loan given to it and its failure. Can you believe this?! This man must think we are idiots...

  • How long until this one files for chapter 11? When "Dear Leader" stops by, it's the kiss of death for any company.

    • Yeah, and it seems like every candidate he endorsed in the 2010 elections got beaten also. Maybe we could get him to endorse Islam openly? With his track record, it would only take months for Islam to crumble.

  • So if we paved over the entire country west of the Mississippi with solar panels we'd have full employment; sounds close enough for Paul Krugman.

    • I think the actual plan is to pave the entire country with solar panels, except for Massachussetts, New York, Washington DC, Illinois, and California, the most reliable communi...., er Democrat voter strongholds. That way the Chevy Volt can be produced in massive quantities because electric will be free!!

  • You see... this is the reason why I get angry. Millions of dollars on a company that hired five people (maybe?) and they are probably friends and family. This is why people get mad and start axing heads...

  • This is what is SUCCESS for a communist organizer. When I was in the old USSR, there were people sitting next to the escalator for a job.

    • Sorry, but your math is not right. 10.8 million per job works in small groups. If you were to apply it across the population, you need to take into account the infrastructure needed to "manage" those jobs. Figure it at 8.9 government "managers" per 1.1 job across the board to start. Since the gov't worker makes on average 60% more than private sector guys... well you see where this is going? It would take at least 900 trillion eleventy dollars to accomplish your proposal. CBO figures would likely vary...