Is Obama the "Outsourcer" in Chief?
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It seems that Obama has been outsourcing jobs as well as
OUTSOURCING OUR TAX MONEY.
Here are the FACTS on Obama's outsourcing:
Switzerland
CronyismSwiss-Based Landis+Gyr Received Over $50 Million In
Stimulus Contracts For Their Smart Grid Meters. Cathy Zoi, A Former
Obama Energy Department Official, Held Over $250,000 Worth Of Stock In
The Company As They Profited From Her Department's Policies. Zoi Had
Previously Served As An Executive Director At Landis+Gyr Before Joining
The Obama Administration
China
Stimulus Funds
North Carolina-Based LED Maker Cree Inc. Received
Over $39 Million Through The Stimulus And Later Opened Its First Plant
In China. Over Half Of The Company's Employees Are Now Located In China
And Cree's CEO Says The Company's Strategy Is "Cree Chip, China Heart."
Sempra Received A $337 Million Loan Guarantee For An
Arizona Solar Plant. The Solar Panels Will Be Supplied By SunTech, A
Chinese Solar Panel Manufacturer.
General Electric Cancelled An Order From Wind
Turbine Manufacturer ATI Casting In Order To Get The Parts Cheaper From
China. After ATI Offered To Match The Price, GE Still Refused The Order.
ATI Was Forced To Layoff 302 Workers Due To The Move.
General Electric Has Also Been Criticized For Using Chinese Made Wind
Towers Over American Towers At The Stimulus Funded Shepherds Flat Wind
Farm In Oregon.
Solar Power Industries Received A $5.4 Million
Stimulus Grant Before Laying Off American Workers Based On An Increased
Reliance On Imports From China.
Loan Guarantees
After Receiving A $500 Million Loan Guarantee, Fisker Automotive Is Producing Their $100K Luxury Electric Sports Car In Finland.
DenmarkStimulus Grants
Received $51.6 Million In Stimulus Grants To Build U.S. Based Factories.
They Have Announced Plans To Layoff 180 U.S. Workers And Possibly
Another 1,600 By The End Of The Year.
Stimulus Grants
The Windy Flats Project Began Construction Before
The Stimulus Was Passed, Received A $218 Million Stimulus Grant And Used
Wind Turbines Assembled By Seimans In Denmark.
Danish Catalyst Company, Haldor Topsoe, Received A
$25 Million Stimulus Award For The Construction Of A Demonstration Scale
Biorefinery.
Stimulus Funds
Batteries Were Given $300 Million To Build Plants In Michigan. Union
Workers Are Now Claiming That Foreign Nationals Are Being Brought In To
Fill Jobs That They Could Take. The Department Of Energy Has Admitted
That 11 Of The 18 Contractors On Site Are Asian Firms.
Stimulus Grants
The Gulf Wind Project Received A $179 Million
Stimulus Grant And Sourced The Parts From South Korea, As Well As Japan
And Mexico.
Stimulus Funds
$162,000 stimulus contract to supply the National Cancer Institute with
tumor samples.
Mexico
Stimulus FundsSunPower Admits That Some of the Solar Panels for
the $1.3 Billion Stimulus Backed California Solar Valley Ranch Will Be
Manufactured At Their Facility In Mexico Rather Than Their Facility In
California.
ABB Inc. Received Over $16 Million in Stimulus Funds
to Create Green Energy Manufacturing Jobs, the Company Has Laid Off
Workers in the U.S. and Transferred Work To Mexico.
Stimulus Funds
Workers in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to Administer a
Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program.
New Zealand
Stimulus FundsA $817,000 Stimulus Contract Was Awarded To New
Zealand's Connexionz To Install Bus Monitors For The City Of Santa
Clarita. A Local Contractor That Could Have Performed The Work Objected
To The Funds Going Overseas.
Bailout Funds
After Taking A Taxpayer-Funded Bailout, General
Motors Opened A $200 Million Plant In Thailand To Supply Diesel Engines
For The Chevrolet Colorado Pickup Truck.
Jobs Council
General Electric Opened A $61 Million Factory In Hai
Pong To Produce Wind Turbine Components. GE's CEO Jeffery Immelt Chairs
The President's Jobs Council And The Company Has Received Over $1.2
Billion In Stimulus Funds.
Stimulus Funds
Brevini Wind Was Given A $12.75 Million Tax Credit
To Build A Facility To Manufactuer Wind Turbine Gearboxes In Indiana.
Over Two Years Later The Company Has Only Hired 70 Of The 450 Workers
Promised And The Company Has Announced They Do Not Expect To Be
Operating The Facility Until Late-2013.
Italian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Pulled In Over $84 Million In Cash Grants Through The Stimulus' 1603 Program.
RussiaStimulus Funds
Ener1 Received Over $118 Million In Stimulus Funds
To Produce Vechicle Batteries. After Going Bankrupt, It Was Acquired
Outright By A Russian Investor, Sparking Security Concerns Surrounding
The Company's Work for The U.S. Military.
Stimulus GRants
E.ON Climate & Renewables Received Over $440
Million In Stimulus Grants For Wind Farms That Began Construction Before
The Stimulus Was Passed.
At Least 25 Wind Turbines For Stimulus Funded Projects Were Supplied By German-Based Nordex.
LuxembourgStimulus Funds
El Salvador
Stimulus FundsParago Used Stimulus Funds to Hire Hundreds of
Workers in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to Administer a
Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program.
Stimulus Funds
$39 Million In Stimulus Funds Went To Navistar For Electric Delivery Trucks That Are Manufactured In Coventry, England.
Stimulus GrantsBritish Private-Equity Firm Terra Firma Received
Over $40 Million In Stimulus Funds Through An American Wind Consortium
It Bought Just Days Before The Stimumuls Funds Were Awarded.
Stimulus Grants
Over 200 Wind Turbines Under Obama's Stimulus Grant Program With Most Of
The Materials Coming From Its Operations Overseas.
Spain
Stimulus FundsSpain-Based Iberdrola Renewables Received $1.5
Billion In Loans And Grants And Claimed It Created Over 15,000 American
Jobs But The Company Only Has 850 U.S.-Based Employees.
Madrid-Based EDP Renewables Received Over $100
Million In Grants For Their Wind Farms and Announced In September 2011
That They Were Planning To Lay Off 10% Of Their North American
Workforce.
Stimulus Funds
Japan
Stimulus GrantsJapanese-Subsidiary Eurus Energy Received $91.4
Million In Stimulus Grants For A Wind Farm Completed Before The Stimulus
Was Passed And Used 180 Turbines Manufactured Overseas By Mitsubishi.
Cashing In
Read More: http://obamanomicsoutsourced.com/
Top Opinion
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mal 2012/07/11 11:50:15Yes. Obama is not only an outsourcer, but a hypocrite.
AND SALUTED BY A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT:
"Look! A Squirrel!"
*heh*
Simply.... HYPOCRITE.
And when the fudge packer loses they BETTER bring him up on charges of treason for
NOT abiding by the Constitution of The United States of America. He solemly swore to up hold.He's a hypocrite Fudge Packing scumbag who is sitting at the sewer of life sucking fudge through a straw and drinking kool aide with his ugly wife who could scare the flies off of a manure truck.He's the driver and the rest of the Liberal/progressives are the stink !
If Obama accuses Romney of something, BHO is probably the WORST ABUSER OF ALL.