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To: combjelly who wrote (736288)	8/31/2013 4:56:23 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578141

>> That was not at all what happened, though. There is a market for solar panels, but the Chinese want to corner that market like they have done with rare earth elements. Business -- and everyone else -- makes bad spending decisions when infused with taxpayer dollars. This was a fundamental premise of Milton Friedman's understanding of government spending. The more distant from taxpayers, the more money is wasted. Obama's solar projects were a perfect example of that although there are tons of others. Business would never have made those awful decisions had there not been no/low cost taxpayer dollars involved. This is why the federal government should not be funding business ventures or running massive spending programs unless there is a compelling need to do so; the waste, fraud and abuse soars when the federal government spends money.