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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (255552)	7/9/2014 8:14:50 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 542903

<<<< The money has to be targeted to promising new technology >>>> Well that's a separate issue. That money is for R&D and there have been oodles of VC dumping billions into these promising new technologies that doesn't place further debt burden on us. I don't think that was ever a target for stimulus money though - at least not much. Solyndra was into making solar panels - pretty much a commodity now. Or soon will be. Do you think it is right in a competitive world to favor some companies with government stimulus money - but not others? .........I was discussing where to most effectively put stimulus money; the end user or the manufacturer. What absolutely blows me away is that you guys are defending the government payments going to corporation and are arguing against the money going to the individual!! Do you not get that? ...........So think of who the winners are. Both would provide jobs - although I would argue my way would create more for equal dollar amounts. But who else? In the Solyndra case, the other winners would be the VC who are now cashing out, the owners of the company - shareholders - and management. In the solar panels going on your roof the winner would also be the homeowner. The working man. The middle class. My God, what is wrong with that?