May 2, 2012

Not Another Green Energy Failure!

Mark Hyman, American Spectator


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Another Obama-Biden success story? Mitt Romney blamed.

The residents at Boxwood, Stanton, Brandywine Springs and othersurrounding communities may have lost the opportunity to get backto work at a nearby automobile assembly line.

Many of these residents were among the work force at the GeneralMotors Boxwood Road plant outside Wilmington, Delaware. The plantwas closed in July 2009 as part of the GM bankruptcy orchestrated by the ObamaAdministration. The Boxwood plant produced the Pontiac Solsticeand Saturn Sky roadsters. GM shedthe Pontiac and Saturn (as well as Saab and Hummer) nameplates aspart of the company's bankruptcy reorganization.

Three months after the closing, Vice President Joe Biden visitedthe Boxwood...

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