Same here:
Posted on 04/24/2012 11:34:51 AM PDT by ml/nj
I just want to point something out that I'm not sure people are appreciating. All of these so-called "green energy" companies that Obama throws billions of dollars at and then file for BK - these companies are taking less than 18 months to go from signing the papers for the government loans to full-liquidation BK. The speed with which these companies collapse is, in and of itself, proof that these companies are set up PURELY as mechanisms to loot the United States Treasury. They were never intended to actually produce anything. They are shells that are set up to fail. "Success" was never even an objective with any of these outfits. Take Solyndra. They received a loan from the government for over $500 million in September of 2010, and filed for total liquidation bankruptcy in September of 2011. Guys, if that company was real, it would take longer than a year JUST TO GET WARMED UP. It takes time, far in excess of a year, to get a company set up, get infrastructure in place, begin production, establish a customer base, etc. Even if they had some pieces in place before the government money came, remember, we are still talking about HALF A BILLION DOLLARS. For a company to burn through half a billion dollars and have a padlock on the front door in 12 months without massive embezzling going on is not possible. And Solyndra was one of the smaller "loans" issued by the Obama regime. And he is pushing for MORE billion dollar "loans" to "green energy" scam companies. Well, of course. Obama is looting the Treasury ahead of the collapse, positioning himself and his oligarch cronies for the post-Republic regime.
Read it again!
ML/NJ
This jibes with something I noticed. There are some videos around the internet that were made inside the manufacturing plants of Solyndra and Beacon Power. These videos were either made by the companies themselves, or by friendly news crews that were doing stories on these companies with their cooperation.
What I noticed was that in both cases the factories were much too big for the production floor space in use. They looked like great big empty buildings with a production line set up in one corner. In the case of Solyndra, there was quite a lot of palletized raw material taking up floor space, but the production equipment was minimal.
This struck me as odd; I’ve been in quite a few factories owned by profitable companies, and they are always crowded with machinery, overhead equipment, etc. There isn’t a lot of empty space, unless they are on the decline.
This struck me as odd when I saw the videos, but I couldn’t put my finger on the reason. This article puts words to my intuition.
I believe most if not all of the videos I’m referencing here are available on YouTube.
It’s money laundering.
Before a nation fails there are always those who line up to loot the treasury. This Marxist gang is no different!
I just started doing work for a company like this. They moved from their previous facility because they obtained a very favorable lease.
ML/NJ
Yeah, that possibility occured to me as well: maybe they got a fantastic deal on a huge facility, and were expecting to grow.
The Beacon facility looked brand-new; I'm not sure about the Solyndra location.
I personally know of a huge vacant factory in upstate NY that's vacant. I'll bet it could be had for a song. The local "Industrial Development Authority" is trying to find someone to move in.
Maybe that's the explanation. For both.
“Springtime for Hitler in Germany”
” Ann is brilliantly stating the obvious here. But I never thought of this. “
Don’t feel bad about it - frauds carried out this blatantly and brazenly defy the comprehension of normally honest people... Even while we’re seeing it, we’re not believing it happened...
If they move the facility to another state, they'll have more success getting a tenant. Doing business in NY State is a disaster (similar to California).
That is why The FBI moved in on day 1 of this disaster hitting the news- to seize the records before the public could see them
WHERE ARE THE SOLYNDRA RECORDS?
Once again we have to ask......Where is Congress in all this?
Oh, most of us, due to the beneficiaries and their links/donations to 0bama, knew pretty much from the start what this was about...
but when you put this in front of your avg liberal,
they deny to their death that this was the purpose of these programs.
That’s because they see their support of “green energy” and 0bama as proving they’re “a good person”.
You have to wonder when one of these alphabet agencies is going to turn on Obama and start squealing like school girls. Seems he is bound to piss off the wrong person sooner or later.
” Oh, most of us, due to the beneficiaries and their links/donations to 0bama, knew pretty much from the start what this was about... “
Many - including many here on FR - buy into the “Obama’s just a bad businessman” meme, which is the CYA spin by the MSM —
Ann Barnhart provides us with a “pay attention to the man behind the curtain” moment, by pointing out that this was perhaps the largest, most open, in-your-face, skimming fraud in history...
Yeah, I wasn’t aware of the shortness of the timeframe from start to BK - 18 months. With that much money at hand, you and I could keep a losing business afloat for several years at least.
Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:12:44 AM by Responsibility2nd
For those who only hear about these failing companies one by one, the following is a list of all the clean energy companies supported by President Obama’s stimulus that are now failing or have filed for bankruptcy. The liberal media hopes you’ve forgotten about all of them except Solyndra, but we haven’t.
That’s 17 (that we know of so far). We also know that loans went to foreign clean energy companies (Fisker sent money to their overseas plant to develop an electric car), and that 80% of these loans went to President Obama’s campaign donors.
The President is trying to claim in his first official campaign ad that he’s created 2.7 million clean energy jobs. When you look at all the companies going bankrupt, some of those jobs might have been paid for by the stimulus, but they are gone now. You can’t claim we’re up 2.7 million jobs if so many of those jobs have been subsequently lost.
Keep this list in mind the next time the media pretends that Solyndra was the only failure.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritageaction.com ...
She is absolutely right. As usual!
The POTUS is Looter Guy.
Indeed he can!
Every one of those ventures “successfully” transferred money from the taxpayers of this and future generations into the pockets of democRat/0bama donors.
What she said + think about GM and what that has set up for These Bankruptcies. We no longer follow the orderly and correct process of liquidation. Different people jump to the front of the line now. Looting on the front end and the back end. It is a shame it takes so long for the pieces to be tied together and even then, no one believes or cares.
bumping your post. that’s good info
“Solyndra” as the Employer, this election cycle:
Presented by the Federal Election Commission
Individual Contributions Arranged By Type, Giver, Then Recipient
Non-Federal Receipts “Exempt From Limits”
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA/EXECUTIVE
PRIORITIES USA ACTION
06/30/2011 500.00 11932493299
BIERMAN, BEN MR.
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA, INC
WOMEN VOTE!
09/12/2010 250.00 10931499697
Total Soft Money: 750.00
Contributions to Political Committees
ALTER, KAREN
PALO ALTO, CA 94301
SOLYNDRA/SVP MARKETING
SANDERS, DAVID AURAM
VIA SANDERS FOR OUR REP
10/30/2010 1000.00 11930326342
ALTER, KAREN L
PALO ALTO, CA 94301
SOLYNDRA/BUSINESS
KHAZEI, ALAN
VIA KHAZEI FOR MASSACHUSETTS
06/30/2011 1000.00 11020244664
BAR-NESS, LESLIE
SAN JOSE, CA 95127
SOLYNDRA, INC
CONWAY, JOHN WILLIAM (JACK)
VIA CONWAY FOR SENATE
06/30/2010 250.00 10020494114
BAR-NESS, LESLIE
SAN JOSE, CA 95127
SOLYNDRA/DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT AFF
BALDERAS, HECTOR
VIA BALDERAS FOR NEW MEXICO
06/30/2011 250.00 11020244193
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
06/30/2010 500.00 10931172822
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA INC.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
07/30/2010 200.00 10931362080
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA INC./VP OPERATIONS
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
10/27/2010 250.00 11990272168
05/31/2011 500.00 11932167211
10/28/2011 200.00 12951335470
01/22/2012 500.00 12970836243
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA, INC.
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
11/23/2009 500.00 10990272705
12/02/2009 200.00 10990556223
09/12/2010 250.00 11990012165
09/12/2010 500.00 11990012165
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA, INC./VP, OPERATIONS
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
09/07/2008 500.00 29990032709
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA, INC/VP OPERATIONS
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
09/07/2008 1000.00 11972514488
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA/EXECUTIVE
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
06/08/2011 1000.00 12950013688
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA/VP ENGINEERING
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
10/06/2006 200.00 26940550300
DECAUX, VINCENT
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107
SOLYNDRA, INC./TECHNOLOGIST
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
02/10/2008 500.00 28992068246
GRONET, CHRISTIAN
PORTOLA VALLEY, CA 94028
SOLYNDRA
BOXER, BARBARA
VIA FRIENDS OF BARBARA BOXER
06/29/2010 1000.00 10020802429
HUNTER, ERROL
PACIFICA, CA 94044
SOLYNDRA/ATTORNEY
HONDA, MIKE
VIA MIKE HONDA FOR CONGRESS
08/23/2011 250.00 11971611953
LOURIS, MICHAEL MR
SAN JOSE, CA 95117
SOLYNDRA
SCHIFF, PETER DAVID
VIA SCHIFF FOR SENATE
11/06/2009 2400.00 10020054639
PASETTI, JOE
FREMONT, CA 94538
SOLYNDRA
FEINSTEIN, DIANNE
VIA FEINSTEIN FOR SENATE
06/28/2010 1000.00 10020511973
PASETTI, JOSEPH
WASHINGTON, DC 20002
SOLYNDRA
BRADY, KEVIN
VIA BRADY FOR CONGRESS
05/17/2010 250.00 10991022070
PASETTI, JOSEPH
WASHINGTON, DC 20024
SOLYNDRA
BOXER, BARBARA
VIA FRIENDS OF BARBARA BOXER
03/31/2010 1000.00 10020362894
GIFFORDS, GABRIELLE
VIA GIFFORDS FOR CONGRESS
10/06/2010 500.00 10931702163
MURKOWSKI, LISA
VIA LISA MURKOWSKI FOR US SENATE
08/24/2010 1000.00 10020791465
THOMPSON, MIKE MR.
VIA MIKE THOMPSON FOR CONGRESS
09/15/2010 1000.00 10991378515
PASETTI, JOSEPH
WASHINGTON, DC 20024
SOLYNDRA, INC.
GIFFORDS, GABRIELLE
VIA GIFFORDS FOR CONGRESS
06/25/2010 250.00 10990857389
PASETTI, JOSEPH A
WASHINGTON, DC 20002
SOLYNDRA
REID, HARRY
VIA FRIENDS FOR HARRY REID
03/30/2010 1000.00 10020202834
PASETTI, JOSEPH A.
WASHINGTON, DC 20002
SOLYNDRA/DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT R
BONO MACK, MARY
VIA MARY BONO MACK COMMITTEE
03/31/2010 500.00 10930583305
PASSETTI, JOSEPH
WASHINGTON, DC 20024
SOLYNDRA
CAMP, DAVID LEE
VIA DAVE CAMP FOR CONGRESS
10/11/2010 1000.00 10931711052
REIDY, SEAN
FOSTER CITY, CA 94404
SOLYNDRA, LLC/ENGINEERING MANAGER
LIBERTARIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, INC.
07/29/2011 250.00 11932297556
WHITAKER, CORBY C
OAKLAND, MI 48363
SOLYNDRA/EXECUTIVE
HARIDOPOLOS, MIKE
VIA FRIENDS OF MIKE H
02/28/2011 1000.00 11020183820
Total Contributions: 21700.00
Joint Fundraising Contributions
These are contributions to committees who are raising funds to be distributed to other committees. The breakdown of these contributions to their final recipients may appear below
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA/VP OF OPERATIONS
OBAMA VICTORY FUND
10/31/2008 300.00 29934401195
Total Joint Fundraising: 300.00
Recipient of Joint Fundraiser Contributions
These are the Final Recipients of Joint Fundraising Contributions
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA, INC
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
11/03/2008 300.00 11953169224
BIERMAN, BEN
FREMONT, CA 94539
SOLYNDRA/VP ENGINEERING
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
10/12/2006 200.00 26940550300
Recipient Total: 500.00
TRY A: NEW QUERY
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excellent point
why isn’t GOP Congress and Mittens the businessman all over this?
d.oh.
Noticed the same thing with the Solyndra plant pix....where are the investigations????
Good info here marker
Baraq got his “Masters” degree in “Operations” from the Chicago political mob during the “Community Organizer” phase.
These are the people who wrote the book on corruption.
That’s why he’s far more dangerous than his typical leftwing academic background might indicate.
ping$
Same here:
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