And when bush was president Halliburton, kb&r, exxon and many many others got hand outs. Its the way of life On Feb 21, 2012 8:03 AM, "Jerry Barnes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Federal funds flow to clean-energy firms with Obama administration ties > > > Sanjay Wagle was a venture capitalist and Barack Obama fundraiser in 2008, > rallyingsupport through a group he headed known as Clean Tech for Obama. > Shortly after Obamas election, he left his California firm to join the > Energy Department, just as the administration embarked on a massive > program to stimulate the economy with federal investments in > clean-technology firms. > ... > During the next three years, the department provided $2.4 billion in public > funding to clean-energy companies in which Wagles former firm, Vantage > Point Venture Partners, had invested, a Washington Post analysis found. > Overall, the Post found that $3.9 billion in federal grants and financing > flowed to 21 companies backed by firms with connections to five Obama > administration staffers and advisers. > ... > White House officials stress that staffers and advisers with venture > capital ties did not make funding decisions related to these companies. But > e-mails released in a congressional probe of Obamas clean-tech program > show that staff and advisers with links to venture firms informally > advocated for some of those companies. > > > > Plenty of good stuff in the article. From what I pick up, this scam has a > lot of potential to make heads roll. > > Article: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/venture-capitalists-play-key-role-in-obamas-energy-department/2011/12/30/gIQA05raER_story.html > > Nice chart showing the connections: > > http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzg463F98k1r5hmxwo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1329925625&Signature=mX12AZ23FXYdEZs7vtuTmSWkvIU%3D > > > Hope and Change. Yep. Hoping for more of your money. Changed DC to make > it even more corrupt. > > > J > > - > > Fascism and Communism are merely variants of the same totalitarianism which > central control of economic activity tends to produce. - F. A. Hayek > > The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial > element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days > of Andrew Jackson. - FD > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347211 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
