enXco, a French-owned firm, $69.5 million.
A-Power Energy Generation Systems, a Chinese-owned company that lists as its mailing address a vacant office in San Diego, is in the running for $450 million in stimulus grants. The contract would create a couple dozen jobs in the United States but hundreds in China.
Meanwhile, at Rutgers University they bought 7,600 solar panels from Yingli Green Energy Holding company, because it was cheaper. The State of New Jersey subsidized half of the ten million dollar project. At the same time, unemployment in New Jersey is near ten percent. What do you suppose the problem could be? Maybe an institution of higher learning such as Rutgers could study the problem of why unemployment is so high and why graduates can't find jobs?
The solar cells came from a Chinese-owned company, and until we can throw down the gold calf of free trade, we cannot make any progress. The three most prosperous economies on the planet are Germany, Japan, and China, and they all got that way through manufacturing. The idol worshippers tell us to have faith and we shall reach Jerusalem, but the truth is we are headed for Jonestown.
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