http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IkC4gM6QX4&feature=player_embedded a very good friend of mine sent me this video. Pretty interesting spin. Watch it and then see my responses. Thanks please forward to as many of your liberal friends as possible. Like the video says. know the truth and I say don't let spin work. To make spin work partial truth is needed. I have included some reference material to refute the youtube article.
“Koch brothers are
secretive oil billionaires backing Romney because Obama wants to take away
millions of dollars in un-necessary tax breaks”.
The deduction of actual cost, to acquire raw material including
exploratory costs, is the same as any other business cost that is deducted from
the bottom line of a business. It is not
a subsidy and the smoke and mirror rhetoric does not make it so. Might also mention that the Koch brothers are
well known, therefore not secretive. So
much for propaganda use of the language.
“Conservative ads
stating that the administration gave $s to build cars in Finland are false
because the department of energy’s funding was specifically for manufacturing
in the US. Employing 700 workers at the Anaheim plant in California and they
are planning a plant in Deleware”
Ar2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisker_Automotive#U.S._government_loan “The Karma is a plug-in hybrid luxury
sports sedan produced by Fisker Automotive and manufactured at Valmet
Automotive in Finland. After missing its initial late 2009 launch, and after
the launch was rescheduled several times, the first deliveries took place in
the U.S. in late July 2011 and deliveries to retail customers began in November
2011.“
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/14/why-is-the-government-subsidiz
“Fisker's problem is that it is the recipient of a $529 million loan from the
Department of Energy. Having already pocketed $193 million to help push the
$104,000 Karma onto the market,“
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/04/autos/Fisker-plant/index.htm
“The Karma is assembled in Finland.”
Fisker's ATVM loan has attracted some controversy.
Politicians and journalists have drawn comparisons with similar loans received by the
now-bankruptsolar
cell manufacturer Solyndra.[38][39] After
drawing $193 million, the government froze the credit
line in May 2011 when it was determined that the company had not met
milestones set as conditions for the loan[29] and
later hired Houlihan Lokey to assist in monitoring Fisker's
progress.[40] The
loan received additional scrutiny for being awarded in part for luxury vehicles
that are too expensive for much of the general public.[38] Fisker
investor Ray Lane responded that the issues were being blown out of proportion
due to election year politics.[38]
“The Conservative ad
said we sent money to china to build traffic lights is false because those
lights were assembled here and helped expand our light manufacturing here in the
US”
AR2:http://factcheck.org/2012/05/stimulus-money-for-jobs-overseas/
b A Pittsurgh Tribune Review investigation found
most of those components were being purchased from Asia.
They said we gave money to a company building solar panels
in Mexico that is wrong because we are giving money to the California Valley
Solar Ranch in San Luis Obispo, CA
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