From Sarah Palin's Facebook
page:
Once
again, the American public lost when the Obama administration attempted
to pick “winners and losers” in the free market. Today the electric car
company Fisker Automotive, which received nearly $200 million in
taxpayer money, is laying off three-fourths of its U.S. workers.
The Anaheim, CA-based start up has failed at pretty much every level –
especially when it comes to the company’s ultra expensive luxury
electric hybrid, the Karma (what a name!), which is assembled in Finland
and received a green-energy loan to transition the assembly to the
U.S., something that never happened.
This losing
tax-subsidized venture joins other past losers like the Obama-subsidized
Volt that gets 40 miles per battery charge, or like the
Obama-subsidized Tesla that turns into a “brick” when the battery
completely discharges and then costs $40,000 to repair.
This is
really just the latest manifestation of the administration’s crony
capitalism as their green energy buddies benefit from this atrocious
waste of taxpayer money. Americans really need to get outraged by these
wasteful ventures. As we’ve seen time and time again, We the People are
always stuck subsidizing the left’s “losers.”
So what’s the
solution and where do Americans go with our outrage? Stand up against
the crony capitalism and elect only those who understand and will let
America’s marketplace dictate economic successes, instead of letting
politicians (some who have never run any business nor even worked in the
private sector) choose free enterprises’ winners and losers. Take a
stand, friends. Nothing will change unless you do.
- Sarah Palin