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(from blog.heritage.org)
“This project is exactly the type of initiative we need to ensure Nevada creates good-paying jobs,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said of a geothermal plant to be built in his home state. A year and a half and $145 million in taxpayer financing later, and the company that built the plant is in dire financial straits.
A recent audit by Deloitte & Touche expressed “significant doubt” about Nevada Geothermal Power’s “ability to continue as a going concern.” The company’s vital signs are not looking good: it “has incurred net losses over the past several years, has an accumulated deficit of $44.0 million and an anticipated inability to retire its long-term liabilities,” the audit concluded.
Nevada Geothermal enjoyed significant backing from the federal government. It received a $79 million loan guarantee from the same Energy Department program that helped finance the failed solar company Solyndra. It also got $66 million in federal grants from the Treasury Department.
Reid was instrumental in securing that financing for Nevada Geothermal, the New York Times reported on Monday. “Mr. Reid has taken the nascent geothermal industry under his wing,” the Times noted, “pressuring the Department of Interior to move more quickly on applications to build clean energy projects on federally owned land and urging other member of Congress to expand federal tax incentives to help build geothermal plants, benefits that Nevada Geothermal has taken advantage of.”
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To the “enlightened” left, socialism is considered not only a viable economic model, but one that produces ultimately a society with abundance for all and poverty for none. A short read through the pages of history finds that belief to be founded on absolutely zero evidence. In truth, everywhere socialism has been attempted; it has failed to improve the lives of anyone, except those in power.(from blackquillandink.com)
Why does such a system always seem to fail? I think the answer may be pretty simple. Socialism is evil and by its very nature subverts the laws of God.
Even the least religious among us know of the 10 Commandments, and most people can recite a few off the tops of their head. (Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not steal. etc.)
But in my opinion, the commandment with the most to teach us as it relates to our dealings with each other is the 10th Commandment, and it’s pretty much overlooked by most people.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Exodus 20:17
Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass (1940)
In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside (1993)
President Barack Obama meets with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board (2010)
b: Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), H. Rap Brown (1943); d: Janis Joplin (1970)