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Hi, I'm Stuart Shepard. This is Stoplight!
It's a popular thing on Facebook -- posting a list of things you remember
that aren't around anymore.
You know like your first car, rotary phones, Wham!. That got me thinking about why some
things once were here and now are gone.
Remember the Pontiac Aztec? It took is styling cues from a dumpster. It ranked # 1 on a list
of the worst cars ever made. It was a car nobody wanted and now Pontiac is gone.
Lehman Brothers invested money in ways that defied logic that returned nothing of value
and lost people a gazillion dollars. And now Lehman Brothers is gone.
Solyndra took a huge loan of our tax dollars -- went around telling everybody how they
were creating green jobs and a green economy and then declared bankruptcy. Solyndra is gone.
Let's consider for a moment what led to each of these going away.
Number 1: They build something people did not want. (Obama) "After a historic vote,
Health Care Reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land." "It is the
law of the land."
2) They were not wise with how they used their money. (Obama) "This week the House passed
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan which will save or create more than 3-million
jobs over the next few years."
3) They pushed for green jobs that can only exist while tax payer money pours in.
(Obama) "The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra."
"...through the recovery act this company received a loan that expands its operations."
"This new factory is the result of those loans."
Ya' know I really don't miss rotary phones. (Talking to iPhone) "Call home." (iPhone) "Calling Stuart Shepard - home."