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General Discussion => The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit => Topic started by: sonofdaxjones on February 19, 2014, 10:20:15 AM

Title: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: sonofdaxjones on February 19, 2014, 10:20:15 AM
US Taxpayers lose:

$139 million

Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on February 19, 2014, 10:24:56 AM
Meh, that's chump change. Get back to me when the Feds piss away, say, half a billion on a green energy company.
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Headinjun on February 19, 2014, 05:47:50 PM
Pffft we've lost much much more In defense.

If the loans were used to pay material, equipment, and labor then it was probably a good stimulus in its own right. 

Mocking green tech will get this country nowhere. 
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Headinjun on February 19, 2014, 06:12:00 PM
Conservative hacks mock it all the time which I believe where the sentiment for this thread came from. 

I'll expect your 1 trillion dollar bitch about the F 35 fighter jet any day now.

Are you still churning about the billions lost in Iraq? I mean for all we know that may never have been redistributed back into our economy. 
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: michigancat on February 19, 2014, 06:18:17 PM
is there a link to this story?
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on February 19, 2014, 07:35:38 PM
The federal government is really terrible at business and needs to stay the eff out.

The federal government has a constitutional duty to defend its citizens.

Libtards see this as the same thing.
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on February 19, 2014, 07:36:47 PM
Conservative hacks mock it all the time which I believe where the sentiment for this thread came from. 

I'll expect your 1 trillion dollar bitch about the F 35 fighter jet any day now.

Are you still churning about the billions lost in Iraq? I mean for all we know that may never have been redistributed back into our economy.

 :D
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Headinjun on February 19, 2014, 10:19:08 PM
Conservative hacks mock it all the time which I believe where the sentiment for this thread came from. 

I'll expect your 1 trillion dollar bitch about the F 35 fighter jet any day now.

Are you still churning about the billions lost in Iraq? I mean for all we know that may never have been redistributed back into our economy.
Conservative hacks mock it all the time which I believe where the sentiment for this thread came from. 

I'll expect your 1 trillion dollar bitch about the F 35 fighter jet any day now.

Are you still churning about the billions lost in Iraq? I mean for all we know that may never have been redistributed back into our economy.

 :D
Conservative hacks mock it all the time which I believe where the sentiment for this thread came from. 

I'll expect your 1 trillion dollar bitch about the F 35 fighter jet any day now.

Are you still churning about the billions lost in Iraq? I mean for all we know that may never have been redistributed back into our economy.

 :D

 :D

Did you find a scare word Dick? 

Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Headinjun on February 20, 2014, 01:41:17 PM
No this is you bitching about some minuscule stimulus program to air your rightwing grievances with your fellow conservative handjobs. 

Granting help to those trying to develop a potentially efficient technology was a good attempt and at the time sounded like a good investment. It still has the potential to payoff if the new firm opens up the Delaware plant.

States offer good incentives all the time, why couldn't the Feds at a time of necessary stimulus ?
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on February 20, 2014, 02:10:21 PM
At the time, it seemed like a good investment.  :lol:
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: 0.42 on February 20, 2014, 02:23:20 PM
Hey, at least Raymond Tusk can buy another yacht now.
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: illBisonYourdele on February 20, 2014, 04:26:55 PM
At the time, it seemed like a good investment.  :lol:
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: michigancat on February 20, 2014, 04:39:51 PM
where is the link detailing the money lost? :frown:
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: sys on February 20, 2014, 04:59:38 PM
where is the link detailing the money lost? :frown:

you could use google.  you'd find out dax's presentation is based on some fact, but is obscured by misleading spin, as per usual.
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Paul Moscow on February 20, 2014, 05:48:58 PM
Not that I really give a crap and Dax gon' Dax but wasn't the loan guarantee program initiated with bi-partisan support in 2005 under George Bush's administration?
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Paul Moscow on February 20, 2014, 06:02:51 PM
Injun, this thread is about the wasted money of gov't getting engaged in the private sector (and in many cases, administration buddies), sometimes it works, many times it doesn't. 

If you want to bitch about DOD acquisition issues, or the cost of the Iraw War then start a thread about it.

Solyndra and all the other renewable energy companies that have gone bankrupt after receiving money as part of the DOE's Loan Guarantee program represent less than 3% of the entire portfolio - the private sector can't hit at 97%. Most VC's in green tech would be happy with a 30% success rate.
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Paul Moscow on February 20, 2014, 06:12:55 PM
where is the link detailing the money lost? :frown:

you could use google.  you'd find out dax's presentation is based on some fact, but is obscured by misleading spin, as per usual.
U.S. taxpayers lost $139 million of the $192 million Fisker received.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-22/fisker-to-sell-assets-in-bankruptcy-at-139-million-loss.html

Links Moscow, so this "portfolio" can be reviewed.

testimony from 2012 (obvs doesn't include losing fisker) http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Silver-Testimony.pdf (http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Silver-Testimony.pdf)
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Paul Moscow on February 20, 2014, 06:39:58 PM
where is the link detailing the money lost? :frown:

you could use google.  you'd find out dax's presentation is based on some fact, but is obscured by misleading spin, as per usual.
U.S. taxpayers lost $139 million of the $192 million Fisker received.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-22/fisker-to-sell-assets-in-bankruptcy-at-139-million-loss.html

Links Moscow, so this "portfolio" can be reviewed.

testimony from 2012 (obvs doesn't include losing fisker) http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Silver-Testimony.pdf (http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Silver-Testimony.pdf)

That's nice testimony from a DOE lifetime WONK who is going to put the best possible spin on the situation.   One couldn't even begin to understand as to what Silver said actually matched reality without an indepth financial analysis of each company invested in.   In gov't and corporate America, nearly anything can be spun into a positive.

Here's more information for you to reflexively dismiss: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/report_on_doe_loan_and_guarantee_portfolio.pdf (http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/report_on_doe_loan_and_guarantee_portfolio.pdf)

One interesting thing of note here is that the program bet 7X as much on utility as the higher-risk solar.
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Institutional Control on February 20, 2014, 07:15:42 PM
So, does this mean all Viagra is going to be made in China now?
Title: Re: Chinese Firm buys Fisker . . .
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on February 21, 2014, 07:06:49 PM
The left really really wants Iraq to be Vietnam.  Sad, really