...is in Finland.
Finland.
The excuse?
"...it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work."Swell. Then don't give anyone a loan.
In this case, it's ANOTHER quid-pro-quo for an Obama bundler: he got the Empty Suit the campaign cash, so Obama gets the treasury printing presses to work a few minutes of OT and there you have it.
Tell me again why these clowns haven't been perp-walked out of the White House?
Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland
With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.
Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department's $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the job of assembling the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car has been outsourced to Finland.
"There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle," the car company's founder and namesake told ABC News. "They don't exist here."
Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money so far has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive.
More:"We're not in the business of failing; we're in the business of winning. So we make the right decision for the business," Fisker said. "That's why we went to Finland."
There's no excuse for this... no explanation that doesn't reek of corruption.
isn't this the kind of thing the #OWS people are sniveling about?
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