No stimulus money went offshore. Do you remember who originated the stimlus?
Not likely to return here, its like dealing with 9th graders in the school yard.
The
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated
ARRA (
Pub.L. 111-5) and commonly referred to as
the Stimulus or
The Recovery Act, is an economic stimulus package enacted by the
111th United States Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President
Barack Obama.
House passes stimulus plan with no GOP votes
Three Republican senators,
Susan Collins,
Olympia Snowe and
Arlen Specter joined the
Democrats to pass the bill, by a vote of 60-38, in the
Senate. President
Barack Obama, who originally drafted the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, signed the bill into law on
February 17,
2009.
Stimulus Jobs in China? Senators Angry About U.S. Money Going Overseas
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
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.
After Receiving A $500 Million Loan Guarantee, Fisker Automotive Is Producing Their $100K Luxury Electric Sports Car In Finland.
Subsidiaries Of Danish Wind Mill Maker Vestas 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.
Oh wow....they also insourced foreign workers
Two Korean Manufacturers Of Electric Vehicle 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 Gulf Wind Project Received A $179 Million Stimulus Grant And Sourced The Parts From South Korea, As Well As Japan And Mexico.
SunPower 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.
the list goes on and on and on...........
