Posted on 09/25/2011 8:04:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Colorado Miracle article from 2009.
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/article/?q=ODJmYWRlMDkxMzYxMzM1NTY3YmMwZDc1MzZmMmYzMGU=
The democrap party remains a crimnal enterprise more powerful and far reaching than any mafioso could even dream of. So long as media whoredom continues to be their propagaqnda arm, they will thrive as the Republic crumbles around US.
Looks like Ritter learned his crony capitalism back-scratching pay-to-play lessons from a certain Texas governor much in the news in the last few weeks. Hope the Thrilla from Wasilla is keeping good notes: you could run a convincing campaign against leaders of both parties based on your opposition to this kind of taxpayer-financed mutual back-scratching.
Obammany Hall.
The good news is Cory Gardner-R beat corrupt Betsey Markey-D with 52% of the vote. Markey got 41%. I wonder if they will run Markey again in 2012.
Covers most of the biggest scumbags in this state.
Cadmium telluride—sounds like a potential pollution problem from manufacturer, doesn’t it? And, isn’t this material limited to under 1/2 the theoretical maximum conversion efficiency of silicon? I think there are some manufacturing advantages, but this sounds like a long-term prescription for a failing company.
Yah, well, what’s NOT crony capitalism about being too big to fail? Conservatives had better start realizing that monopolism is NOT capitalism, it is state corporatism or fascism. We let the commie yahoos co-opt us in their Wall Street sit down demonstration while they get millions of Americans are going “hell yes”, stick it to those Wall Stree b*stards. Capitalism’s tendency to evolve into monopolism has got to be regulated. We should be fighting to reinstall the Glass-Steagall legislation and repeal the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act which effectively gave commercial banks the green light to invest in crap loan derivatives and other “creative” instruments. “Too big to fail” is fascism. Solyndra is chump change. Our target acquisition sucks.
Well put. Sadly, there is no one to prosecute these criminal sonsabitches and ahng them for treason against the Sovereigns of the Republic, We The People. And for that we can place blame on the feckless, graft-riddled repubicans (to borrow a word from Mark Levin whom I admire greatly).
(((ping)))
And yes, I consider it trewasonous to put the people so far in debt that our great grandchildren will still be paying for the graft and criminal dole.
And yes, I consider it treasonous to put the people so far in debt that our great grandchildren will still be paying for the graft and criminal dole. And add to that the eager lying and dissembling daily spewed forth from the fifth column enemy media who long ago transitioned from fourth estate of the Republic to propaganda bullhorn for the treasonous bastards and we have a Republic of sovereign voters who are so dumbed down and herded by media whoredom that guillotines are long overdue to clean the media fields.
The existence of China lays waste to the myth that green jobs are the future for America. They are for China, not for the US. Solyndra is a perfect example. We innovate here. They build there. For the same reason that manufacturing is a dying employment sector here,permanent green jobs in solar and wind which are manufacturing heavy will not take root here.The innovative Solyndra can testify to that. Once the technology is developed here, the permanent jobs will wind up in the China. In all fairness China should be funding Obama’s green jobs stimulus fantasy, not the US taxpayer.
Learn it or live it department: These issues were thrashed out 120 years ago and more in a German theoretical periodical called Ordo ("Order"). The magazine was the home of reform champions who argued that fair markets require good policemen who pinch anyone trying to put a thumb in the scales -- the people Adam Smith complained about, hatching their price-fixing conspiracies in the back booths of public houses in 18th-century London.
"Ordoliberals" rebuke classical liberals (laissez-faire liberals), who are 100% marketarian in their reliance on the market to correct prices and frustrate cartels. The marketarians do have some successes to point to: the London tin cartel of 30 years ago, which grew up on the example of OPEC, fell apart with rueful losses to the instigators. OPEC itself hasn't done all that well, although in their case they also had a counter-cartel, the OECD, to contend with.
The "ordoliberals" have common sense on their side: Good fences make good neighbors, and good policemen make good markets.
I wondered exactly the same thing...I may not know much about solar cell manufacturing but cadmium is highly restricted(banned in a lot of former applications) and I imagine so is telluride. No EPA screaming on this one?
The sad part of all of this is that any GOOD solar manufacturing will be painted/tainted with the Solyndra brush. Dammit, we invented solar panels here in the US, building solar arrays for satellites and I believe it is a viable addition to an American energy industry portfolio. We need to take this industry back, make it attractive to manufacture here...and get the government out of the business of picking winners/losers.
That would not be true if the Chinese paid human-being wages to their workers.
Zero safety, zero benefits, grinding hours, draconian management, noodles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and hurry up about it!) -- and wages based on convict slave labor and Malthusian labor-market mathematics.
How does anyone on the face of the earth compete with that?
Creativity and quality control are the two factors the Chinese have not mastered yet. They may never get over their lack of creativity -- their school system and traditional Chinese educational methods are potent impediments -- but for now it's enough for them, to steal our ideas, flout our patents and copyrights, and just grind out the fruits of our inventiveness in their sweatshops.
It’s not capitalism or free markets that evolve into monopolies, it is the government promotion of favored companies (corporatism, fascism or so called crony capitalism) and the over-regulation of small start-ups that seek to compete in the open market. The government’s role is to be the umpire, ensuring that companies follow the rule of law and as an arbitrator to settle disputes.
In a larger sense, this is also a story about the unintended consequences of campaign-finance reform. In 2002, Congress passed McCain-Feingold. That same year, Colorado citizens enacted Amendment 27, a constitutional amendment that capped state-legislative contributions at $400 per donor. By lowering the amounts candidates could raise and spend, these laws effectively took message control out of the hands of candidates and handed it to outsiders. (Emphasis added.)
Noting that there is "no such thing as a 'mom and pop' 527" because of all the arcane tax-law guidance required, the article's bottom line is that McCain-Feingold in 2002 handed the financing of American politics to large donors and 527 bundlers. And things like Abound and Solyndra become the quid that large donors, unrestrained and without effective competition now for the attention of politicians, demand for their quo.
Campaign finance "reform" has cartelized American politics and placed it firmly in the hands of billionaires and political fixers.
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