$50 Million Renewable Energy Scam
11th March 2016
A Pennsylvania newspaper has reported details of a $50 million alleged renewable energy scam. More shocking is how easy it was, to allegedly defraud government subsidies.
The problem will all these beguiling government programs to Improve Life And Save The Planet is that (a) as soon as ‘government money’ is available for something, a certain class of people immediately start figuring out how they can game the system, and (b) since government employees aren’t spending their own money they are less careful than a private company would be, and the result ranges from simple lack of due diligence to outright collusion in fraud.
This is exacerbated by government preferences for Fashionable Minorities, the recipients of which see the purpose of the government job as to Provide Them With A Job rather than to Get Something Accomplished. The resulting ‘work ethic’ is what you would expect.