Reality Batting Last

One by one, the wildly exaggerated claims about our glorious transition to ”green jobs” are making their rendezvous with reality.  Hundreds of millions of dollars have been given to companies which would provide “the jobs of the future”.  In many cases, owners of these companies had also provided ‘campaign cash for Obama’s future’.  So the cronies got money and Obama got both money and a photo-op to talk about his green greatness.

Later, in bankruptcy after bankruptcy, reality has re-asserted itself.  One of the latest such debacles is the bankruptcy of battery manufacturer, A123 systems. Taxpayers lost about  $250,000,000.  Think about what the taxpayers who made this money could have done with it if it had not been taken from them.  This short video is a classic display of leftist economic delusions:

 

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