Posted on 11/23/2011 3:26:15 PM PST by raptor22
Industrial Policy: Not only do taxpayers subsidize failing green energy here, they may soon be on the hook for a Department of Energy loan to a firm owned by a Russian billionaire. Just say nyet.
When a foreign firm wants to build a facility in the U.S. that hires American workers and pays American taxes, we welcome it. We'd prefer they do it with their own money, not rely on this administration's failed industrial policy to provide them with a huge taxpayer-backed loan — especially when it's owned by a billionaire who doesn't need the help.
The administration's latest green boondoggle is a $773 million loan for Severstal North America to expand and retool the old Rouge steel mill in Dearborn, Mich., to manufacture high-strength steel in a Rust Belt state badly in need of job creation.
The idea allegedly was to provide the high-strength steel needed to produce lighter, more-fuel-efficient cars as part of President Obama's touted Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. It supports cars like the heavily subsidized Chevy Volt, built by the bailed-out Government Motors.
The problem is that this kind of steel is already being produced in sufficient quantities, including by Severstal. And the company getting the loan is owned by Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov, one of the world's richest men with a net worth estimated at $19 billion.
As Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote in a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu questioning the wisdom of the DOE loan: "It would seem to be a waste of taxpayer funds to subsidize (Rouge) when there is already more than enough production available for this material."
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What is the Energy Department 5-year plan?
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Stimulus ping
This commie, in addition to ripping off US Taxpayers eventually, is trying to first line the pockets of homegrown jihadists so they weapon up, then piss them off by laying them off when the company goes under.....All of this, of course, with Obama's help.
Nice. This is a two-fer. Dearbornistan gets jobs for the muslim population and Russia gets a payoff.
The administration's latest green boondoggle is a $773 million loan for Severstal North America to expand and retool the old Rouge steel mill in Dearborn, Mich., to manufacture high-strength steel in a Rust Belt state badly in need of job creation.
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