Spreading the wealth thinner…
(Townhall) –The Obama Administration’s “green jobs” agenda is apparently not limited to the United States. According to CNS News, the administration created a $20 million grant that will go toward creating green projects…in Africa.
The U.S. government is spending $20 million to “help clean energy projects in Africa get started.” Those projects include wind farms and solar panels, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced at the recent Rio +20 Conference in Brazil.
But the government watchdog Judicial Watch criticized the spending as wasteful, given the administration’s track record in trying to pick green energy winners.
“The U.S.-Africa Clean Energy Finance Initiative will help clean energy projects in Africa get started,” said Clinton in her June 22 speech. “This is an innovative partnership between three United States government entities – the State Department, OPIC (the Overseas Private Investment Corporation), and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. We want to drive private sector investment into the energy sector.”
Clinton said the initial $20 million grant will “leverage much larger investment flows from OPIC,” which is the U.S. government’s development finance institution. “That will open the door then for hundreds of millions of dollars of OPIC financing, plus hundreds of millons of more dollars from the private sector for projects that otherwise would never get off the drawing board.”
Also see this recent post: Geothermal Co. [Still] Struggling After $98.5 MILLION Taxpayer Bailout
Hey Obama, Too bad Louisiana Democrat Congressman William “dollar-bill” Jefferson is serving Prison time – for fraud and racketeering activities – that he perpetrated as a US Congressman – while also “bilking” philanthropists out of Hundreds of Thousand$ – that Jefferson claimed was to give to African officials as a pay-off to start up a telecommunications business in Africa.
Jefferson would have been the perfect co-conspirator in you Green Jobs Projects in Africa.
But say hey – thanks for providing our US taxpayer money = $20 Million “initial” grant – to Africa – when unemployment has been skyrocketing in the USA since your ACORN election in 2008.
Out-sourcing Jobs to Communist China w GE – and now in Africa, what a great man you are as POTUS.
The 2012 campaign will be “The War on ERROR”.
God Bless America – God Bless our American Troops!
From my friend “RightThinking1″:
Another One of Obama’s Green Jobs Project filed bankruptcy = Abound Solar.
See this July 2010 video of Obama crowing about Abound Solar and what a success it will be. Don’t expect replays of this by the MSM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86VqQOtTLY