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Thread #139416   Message #3224444
Posted By: Bobert
16-Sep-11 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Tea Party- New & Improved Thread...
Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party- New & Improved Thread...
First of all, lets deal with the latest GfinS Myth-Teaology, Solyndra...

The Myth-Teaology is that only 1,100 jobs were created or saved by the "loan"...

That is an absolute BIG LIE...

Solyndra used the money to build a new plant and equip it with all the machinery for their 1,100 employees to make solar panels...

Did these employees build the plant??? Well, no, they didn't... The building of the plant and equipping was done by contractors, sub contractors, engineers, architects, planners, etc., etc... It was built with materials that were made by a multitude of companies... All in all, tens of thousands of people were employed completely or partially by this "loan"... Now, back to Econ 101... There is a ripple effect in that when you have tens of thousands of people employed they spend money at grocery stores, malls, hardware stores, etc, etc. which saves or employes even more people who in turn spend money and the ripple effect goes and goes...

But reality doesn't fit nicely on Myth-Teaology bumper stickers and with the American people so dumbed down with very limited attention spans for boring Econ 101, it is virtually a waste of time trying to explain anything more complicated that watching cars drive in circles to them so...

...forget trying to make sense to people with IQ's in the lesser side of a box of creek rocks...

BTW, I thought the song was cute but that's about it...

If ya' wanta get to heaven
Ya' gotta D-I-E
Gotta put on your coat
And D-I-E

Wanta get the rabbit out the L-O-G
Gotta make a commotion
Like a D-O-G

(Waylon Jennings)

Never mind...

B~