Petition Congress to Investigate the Solyndra Sham

Demand Congress Investigate Bankrupt Solyndra

After receiving $535 million dollars in loan guarantees from the federal government, the solar company Solyndra has laid off all its employees and closed its doors. Emails show that the White House put pressure on administrators to give Solyndra this money, despite evidence of fiscal insolvency. The Bush administration had rejected Solyndra's application, but the Obama administration pushed it through. The American people deserve to know why this application was fast tracked--where did our money go, and who is responsible for this incredible failure!

The media has no interest in honestly investigating President Obama as he seeks re-election. Join us as we demand that Congress investigate the $535 million dollar boondoggle known as Solyndra.

Sign the Petition

I just signed the petition and sent the following letter to my congressional representatives in the House and Senate.

As one of your constituents and someone who wants to see fiscal accountability in our government I am writing you today to encourage that you support an exhaustive and complete investigation of the $535 million dollar boondoggle known as Solyndra. 

The American people deserve to know what happened. Someone must be held accountable for this fiasco.

Sincerely,

John Kasich Has Gone Too Far with Privatization

I don't often agree with ProgressOhio, but their lawsuit against Kasich for privatizing  the state's prisons may be a good repudiation of this idiotic policy.If you are a student of history, the Bible, and American republicanism (not the party, but science of a government with three branches) then you know that this counter-traditional.  God sets up civil governments, the Church, families, and institutions to fulfill their respective purposes.  The civil government is supposed to punish criminals and keep the peace. The Church is supposed to evangelize the world, feed the poor, and help those who are hurting.  Parents are supposed to govern their children.  The purpose of business is to increase the wealth of the people by beneficial exchanges of goods and services.  To the extent that God's system is corrupted by man, serious problems arise.  To give a private corporation the responsibility of punishing criminals is a dangerous step towards the destruction of the balance of the institutions God has given us.  Corporations can have motives that would lead them to treat prisoners differently according whatever benefits them.  I'm all for privatization in most areas, but when it comes to the one thing that government should be doing, it is a crazy idea.  I am also very disturbed about John Kasich's recent mention of Diebold in his commercials.  Again this is a corporation which is given power over the affairs of our government, which should be done by the people.  They will have a motive in determining the outcome of an election and it may be too tempting for them to resist committing election fraud to advance their own interests (especially when they are giving campaign contributions to politicians who are promoting electronic voting machines!)  This type of corporatism will surely lead to the destruction of our freedom and help to build the fascist (government/corporation hybrid) state that all Americans should be on guard against.  Whenever one institution is allowed to usurp the power of another, it gains too much power and becomes corrupt.  Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  This idea that privatizing prisons and the tabulation of votes will save money is ludicrous.  In the end, we will lose much more than this policy will save.  But if institutions God has given us are kept in their proper roles, the natural checks and balances will greatly reduce corruption.

The Washington way: The story of the three contractors

This modern day parable, repeated below, was sent to me this weekend by T.D., friend of this blog. It is very illustrative to how things work in Wasting-a-ton, D.C.!

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. 

One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota. 

All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.  

The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me." 

The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me." 

The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700." 

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?" 

The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."  

"Done!" replies the government official.  

And that, my friends, is how the new stimulus plan works.