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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (629903)	9/29/2011 2:41:00 PM
From: TopCat	Respond to of 1578742

"Sorry, I didn't read it carefully. But that 2008 grant did happen. It wasn't a particularly large grant, IIRC, but it was a grant." As I said, a grant is not something that I would necessarily have issue with. A half-billion loan guarantee that was subjugated to a company that did not have a lasting competitive edge is what I have an issue with. Unlike others, I'm not ready to say it was criminal.....but I am ready to say it was dumb.