Hey, Chicago..!! You "OK" with your candidate guy... and his Rasputin Chief of Staff... shipping AMERICAN TAXPAYER BAILOUT dollars, BILLIONS of 'em, OFFSHORE to FOREIGN companies??
Hell if D.C. Didn't Offshore $849 Million in Stimulus for Windmills Already
By Leo Gerard, President, United Steelworkers, and VP, AFL-CIO
November 19, 2009
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009114719/hell-if-dc-didnt-offshore-849-million-stimulus-windmills-already
It turns out a Texas windmill farm developer's request last month for nearly half a billion in stimulus funds to create 2,000 jobs in China doesn't rank first on the audacity scale.
Shockingly for American taxpayers, and sadly for the staggering 10.2 percent of Americans who are unemployed, it doesn't even rank second.
That's because Washington already has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms. Of the $1.05 billion in clean energy grants awarded by D.C., $849 million -- 84 percent -- went to foreign wind companies, according to an analysis by Russ Choma of the Investigative Reporting Workshop...
