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Politics : The Solyndra Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (435)	4/4/2012 12:08:48 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1400

Isn't this something Energy Secretary Steven Chu should have known before he crowed that "investments like this project make solar power more efficient and cost competitive while creating thousands of jobs and strengthening the economy"? And shouldn't Interior Secretary Ken Salazar have anticipated problems before taking part in the company's groundbreaking ceremonies in Blythe, Calif.? Of course they didn't know the company would run into trouble. As bureaucrats and not investors, they couldn't have — which is exactly why the government shouldn't make business decisions: