Hattip to Mary Katherine Ham at Hot Air. Back in 2008 Obama stated that if elected he would create five million green jobs over the next decade. At this stage it becomes monotonous to bring up the fact that the promises of Obama bear as much relationship to reality as a lightning bug does to lightning, but the failure of Fisker Automotive can be taken as a symbol of the failed economic policy of the Obama administration.
In 2009 the Obama administration authorized a half a billion loan guarantee to Fisker, and about 193 million was spent. When Fisker opened a plant in Delaware, Veep Biden was on hand. The car company is now reeling to bankruptcy after spending 600K on each 100K Fisker Karma it sold:
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Go here to read the rest at Bloomberg. Ideological investing is a poor way to make money. The Obama administration is long on ideology and short on any idea of how private businesses actually make money. Having these bozos in charge of the economy is like having Bill Clinton teach a class on abstinence.
A123 Systems…….Our cost……$249 Million.
Solyndrd LLC……..Our cost……$535 Million.
Fisker and more govt. spending. ???
Seems as though the thug from Chicago could save U.S. money if he step away from the cash register.
Bankruptcy not Barack is his first name.
Wonder what the compensation for the top 10 people in this bankrupt company are. Dear Lord help me, I hate to be a cynic, BUT I also wonder what their relationship to top people in the current administration are.
Saw the first ever Fisker Karma, GA plate “ECO ROD” [which I thought was cute} on the road day before yesterday. Beautiful car! Then I read yesterday’s WSJ editorial, then this blog. Woe is me, wow is me.
AMDG,
SYW