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Then came the August morning when Sterio heard a newscaster announce that more than a thousand Solyndra employees were out of work. Only recently did she learn that, within the Obama administration, the company’s potential collapse had long been discussed. “It’s not about the people; it’s politics,” said Sterio, who remains jobless and at risk of losing her home. “We all feel betrayed.”
Since the failure of the company, Obama’s entire $80 billion clean-technology program has begun to look like a political liability for an administration about to enter a bruising reelection campaign.
Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found in an analysis of thousands of memos, company records and internal e-mails.
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LadyJazzer wrote: Kind of like politics was infused with the oil companies in secret meetings with Cheney? Kind of like the politics infused with the war-profiteers make billions off of the two unnecessary wars?
Like THAT kind of "infused"?
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LadyJazzer wrote: Kind of like politics was infused with the oil companies in secret meetings with Cheney? Kind of like the politics infused with the war-profiteers making billions off of the two unnecessary wars?
Like THAT kind of "infused"?
LadyJazzer wrote: [Predictably ignorant non-response response and deflection...
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