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It’s getting increasingly hard to tell the Government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program

It pays to be well connected



Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve:
SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a solar-thermal project in Nevada. SolarReserve is based in Santa Monica, California, and on their web-site is a list of “investment partners,” including the “PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East) LLC.” As blogger American Glob quickly discovered, PCG’s number two is none other than “Ronald Pelosi, a San Francisco political insider and financial industry big shot who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives.”

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There is no end to the chicanery these crooks are capable of, as I can remember a few years ago, Pelosi was responsible for using her then position as speaker of the house to make sure that the minimum wage bill working its way through the house at the time, did not accrue to the cannery workers in the tuna cannery in American Samoa, owned in large part I believe by her husband. It gets even better, One of Solar Reserve’s other investment partners is Argonaut Private Equity: Steve Mitchell and Argonaut Private Equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Solyndra debacle now that the Department of Energy has given a $737 million dollar loan guarantee to a company backed by Argonaut that also lists Mitchell among its board of directors. It just so happens, that Steve served on the Solyndra LLC Board of Directors. He also serves as Managing Director for Argonaut Private Equity, a company that invested in Solyndra through the LLCs parent company. After Solyndra declared bankruptcy, two Democratic members of the U.S. House asked that Mitchell testify about Solyndra. Though he has not appeared before Congress, he has “been asked to provide documents to Congress” pertaining to Solyndra. Do you see where we are going with this little connect the dots scenario? Let us add another log to the fire, Obama is about to hold a big money fundraiser at the home of Tom Carnahan in St. Louis: Carnahan, is the son of former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan and former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan. He’s also the brother of current Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan. Carnahan is chairman of the board of Wind Capital Group, a wind energy company that makes its corporate headquarters in St. Louis. He formerly was president and CEO of the company. Last year, Wind Capital’s Lost Creek Farm facility in northwest Missouri received a $107 million tax credit from the Treasury Department, among many such wind operations receiving support from stimulus funds. To add another little twig to this fire, Carnahan, a member of the prominent Missouri Democratic family, has been tapped by the Obama campaign as its chief Missouri fundraiser. It’s getting increasingly hard to tell the Government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program. What say you Mr. & Mrs. America? These people with their connections are using all of us as their private piggy bank, and I don’t know about you but I am getting damned sick of it.


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<em>Las Vegas based Aaron is retired from the U.S. Military. His favourite weapons now are:  a spatula, a 1 iron, or a corkscrew. </a>


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