Among the most frequently heard criticisms by Democrats about President George W. Bush and the pre-2006 Republican majorities in the House and Senate was that corporations were being coddled even while they were sending American jobs overseas. Then President Barack Obama proposed his $787 billion economic stimulus program and promised that it would bring unemployment down to 8 percent or less while saving or creating up to 3.5 million jobs.
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"Every day that you build this expanded facility, you’re demonstrating that the promise of clean energy isn’t just an article of faith.” President Barack Obama told this to employees of Solyndra at the company’s solar panel plant in Fremont last May, “It’s happening right now. The future is here.”
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Seattle won a $20 million federal grant in 2010 for weatherization of local homes. The grant was won primarily because Mayor Mike McGinn promised to create 2,000 new jobs in Seattle by fixing 2,000 houses. One year later, only three homes have been weatherized and only 14 jobs have been created. Maybe the feds should save our tax money for a rainy day.
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The U.S. Department of Energy gave West Virginia $38 million in stimulus money for home weatherization projects. Out of that, the state paid a lawyer $25,000 to write two sentences verifying that weatherization contracts had been reviewed, reportedly after only four hours of work. That is $6,250 an hour. Such waste and abuse helps explain why half of the state’s weatherized homes reinspected by DOE between September 2009 and August 2010 needed to be redone because of faulty work.
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