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Just an interesting observation as I watched a few moments of the Solyndra hearings listening to the CEO’s utilizing their 5th amendment rights. First off, as I have mentioned before, I honestly dislike watching assclown politicians grill company execs when they themselves are never grilled in the same manner. You can say they are come election time but that sure isn’t often enough. Anyway, here’s my take on this Solyndra solar panel deal.
We have a president at the beginning of his term vow to find alternative energy sources while at the same time completely trashing big oil and/or other conventional fuels like coal. Ok, that’s his prerogative to do so because he won. It’s a pretty much known fact a half billion bucks of tax dollars was given immediately without many questions to this solar panel company. The same grant request was stalled during Bush pending a lot of relevant and unanswered questions but the Obama crew waived it immediately along with dozens of visits by Solyndra reps on the visitation list at the White House. Obama’s “green light”, so to speak, was to benchmark and build his administration as inventing green jobs and green products like his Chevy Volt. He rudely and proudly disavowed oil demanding we stop subsidies while he dumped a half a bill to Solyndra. A little side note to ponder…..imagine going door to door say in Columbus, OH with approximately 550,000 people and giving each person a million at a time and how many lives you could change. All this in 3 short years to say I’m bankrupt? Something doesn’t add up.
Here’s the irony as I see things. While there is a lot more press than I imagined would be on this Solyndra story, it is still no where near the proportions that it would be if this would have been an oil company or other fossil fuel related story. IMO, if it were say a BP CEO’s utilizing the 5th, I would guarantee CNN to be running this story non stop and telling the personal names of the CEO’s, where they lived and would be striving daily to find out the specific White House connection.
Lastly, personally the only relevant thing I’m suggesting from this is the mind set the media successfully gets from the American people. A villain’s depth is directly proportionate to how much media gets behind it. In other words, IMO, oil company execs are far more prone to guilty-ness, for lack of a better term, than a well intentioned solar panel exec “just because”…….it’s that simple of a juvenile excuse that kids make all the time……”just because, dad”.
We have a president at the beginning of his term vow to find alternative energy sources while at the same time completely trashing big oil and/or other conventional fuels like coal. Ok, that’s his prerogative to do so because he won. It’s a pretty much known fact a half billion bucks of tax dollars was given immediately without many questions to this solar panel company. The same grant request was stalled during Bush pending a lot of relevant and unanswered questions but the Obama crew waived it immediately along with dozens of visits by Solyndra reps on the visitation list at the White House. Obama’s “green light”, so to speak, was to benchmark and build his administration as inventing green jobs and green products like his Chevy Volt. He rudely and proudly disavowed oil demanding we stop subsidies while he dumped a half a bill to Solyndra. A little side note to ponder…..imagine going door to door say in Columbus, OH with approximately 550,000 people and giving each person a million at a time and how many lives you could change. All this in 3 short years to say I’m bankrupt? Something doesn’t add up.
Here’s the irony as I see things. While there is a lot more press than I imagined would be on this Solyndra story, it is still no where near the proportions that it would be if this would have been an oil company or other fossil fuel related story. IMO, if it were say a BP CEO’s utilizing the 5th, I would guarantee CNN to be running this story non stop and telling the personal names of the CEO’s, where they lived and would be striving daily to find out the specific White House connection.
Lastly, personally the only relevant thing I’m suggesting from this is the mind set the media successfully gets from the American people. A villain’s depth is directly proportionate to how much media gets behind it. In other words, IMO, oil company execs are far more prone to guilty-ness, for lack of a better term, than a well intentioned solar panel exec “just because”…….it’s that simple of a juvenile excuse that kids make all the time……”just because, dad”.