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A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies

as listed on usa.gov:

* Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
* Administration for Native Americans
* Administration on Aging (AoA)
* Administration on Developmental Disabilities
* Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
* Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
* Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
* African Development Foundation
* Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
* Agency for International Development
* Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
* Agricultural Marketing Service
* Agricultural Research Service
* Agriculture Department (USDA)
* Air Force
* Alabama Home Page
* Alabama State, County, and City Websites
* Alaska Home Page
* Alaska State, County, and City Websites
* Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau (Justice)
* Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (Treasury)
* American Battle Monuments Commission
* American Samoa Home Page
* AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
* Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
* Appalachian Regional Commission
* Architect of the Capitol
* Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)
* Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
* Arctic Research Commission
* Arizona Home Page
* Arizona State, County, and City Websites
* Arkansas Home Page
* Arkansas State, County, and City Websites
* Armed Forces Retirement Home
* Arms Control and International Security
* Army
* Army Corps of Engineers
* Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
* Atlantic Fleet Forces Command
* Bankruptcy Courts
* Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
* Bonneville Power Administration
* Botanic Garden
* Broadcasting Board of Governors (Voice of America, Radio|TV Marti and more)
* Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (Justice)
* Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade (Treasury)
* Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS)
* Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
* Bureau of Engraving and Printing
* Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
* Bureau of Industry and Security (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration)
* Bureau of International Labor Affairs
* Bureau of Justice Statistics
* Bureau of Labor Statistics
* Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
* Bureau of Prisons
* Bureau of Public Debt
* Bureau of Reclamation
* Bureau of the Census
* Bureau of Transportation Statistics
* California Home Page
* California State, County and City Websites
* Capitol Visitor Center
* Census Bureau
* Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
* Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
* Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration)
* Central Command (CENTCOM)
* Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
* Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
* Chief Acquisition Officers Council
* Chief Financial Officers Council
* Chief Human Capital Officers Council
* Chief Information Officers Council
* Cities, Counties, and Towns in the United States
* Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
* Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau (formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service)
* Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
* Coast Guard
* Colorado Home Page
* Colorado State, County and City Websites
* Commerce Department
* Commission of Fine Arts
* Commission on Civil Rights
* Commission on International Religious Freedom
* Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
* Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
* Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
* Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States
* Commodity Futures Trading Commission
* Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
* Community Planning and Development
* Comptroller of the Currency Office
* Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT)
* Congress
* Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
* Congressional Research Service
* Connecticut Home Page
* Connecticut State, County and City Websites
* Constitution Center
* Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
* Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
* Copyright Office
* Corporation for National and Community Service
* Corps of Engineers
* Council of Economic Advisers
* Council on Environmental Quality
* County and City Governments
* Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
* Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
* Court of Federal Claims
* Court of International Trade
* Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia
* Customs and Border Protection
* National Institute of Food and Agriculture
* Defense Acquisition University
* Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
* Defense Commissary Agency
* Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
* Defense Contract Management Agency
* Defense Department (DOD)
* Defense Field Activities
* Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
* Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
* Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
* Defense Legal Services Agency
* Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
* Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
* Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)
* Defense Security Service (DSS)
* Defense Technical Information Center
* Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
* Delaware Home Page
* Delaware River Basin Commission
* Delaware State, County and City Websites
* Denali Commission
* Department of Agriculture (USDA)
* Department of Commerce (DOC)
* Department of Defense (DOD)
* Department of Defense Inspector General
* Department of Education (ED)
* Department of Energy (DOE)
* Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
* Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
* Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
* Department of Justice (DOJ)
* Department of Labor (DOL)
* Department of State (DOS)
* Department of the Interior (DOI)
* Department of the Treasury
* Department of Transportation (DOT)
* Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
* Director of National Intelligence
* Disability Employment Policy Office
* District of Columbia Home Page
* Domestic Policy Council
* Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
* Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs (State Department)
* Economic Adjustment Office
* Economic Analysis, Bureau of
* Economic Development Administration
* Economic Research Service
* Economics & Statistics Administration
* Education Department (ED)
* Election Assistance Commission
* Employee Benefits Security Administration (formerly Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration)
* Employment and Training Administration (Labor Department)
* Endangered Species Committee
* Energy Department (DOE)
* Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
* Energy Information Administration
* English Language Acquisition Office
* Engraving and Printing, Bureau of
* Environmental Management (Energy Department)
* Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
* Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
* European Command
* Executive Office for Immigration Review
* Export Administration (now the Bureau of Industry and Security)
* Export-Import Bank of the United States
* Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
* Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
* Farm Credit Administration
* Farm Service Agency
* Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
* Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
* Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
* Federal Bureau of Prisons
* Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC)
* Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
* Federal Consulting Group
* Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
* Federal Election Commission
* Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
* Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
* Federal Executive Boards
* Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
* Federal Financing Bank
* Federal Geographic Data Committee
* Federal Highway Administration
* Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
* Federal Housing Finance Board
* Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
* Federal Interagency Committee on Education
* Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
* Federal Judicial Center
* Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
* Federal Labor Relations Authority
* Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
* Federal Library and Information Center Committee
* Federal Maritime Commission
* Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
* Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
* Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
* Federal Railroad Administration
* Federal Reserve System
* Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
* Federal Student Aid (FSA)
* Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
* Federal Transit Administration
* Federated States of Micronesia Home Page
* Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
* Financial Management Service (Treasury Department)
* Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, National Commission
* Fish and Wildlife Service
* Florida Home Page
* Florida State, County and City Websites
* Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
* Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
* Food and Nutrition Service
* Food Safety and Inspection Service
* Foreign Agricultural Service
* Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
* Forest Service
* Fossil Energy
* Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* General Services Administration (GSA)
* Geological Survey (USGS)
* Georgia Home Page
* Georgia State, County and City Websites
* Global Affairs (State Department)
* Government Accountability Office (GAO)
* Government National Mortgage Association
* Government Printing Office (GPO)
* Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
* Guam Home Page
* Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
* Hawaii Home Page
* Hawaii State, County and City Websites
* Health and Human Services Department (HHS)
* Health Resources and Services Administration
* Helsinki Commission (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
* Holocaust Memorial Museum
* Homeland Security Department (DHS)
* House Leadership Offices
* House Office of Inspector General
* House Office of the Clerk
* House of Representatives
* House of Representatives Committees
* House Organizations, Commissions, and Task Forces
* House Representatives on the Web
* Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)
* Housing Office (HUD)
* Idaho Home Page
* Idaho State, County and City Websites
* Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission
* Illinois Home Page
* Illinois State, County and City Websites
* Immigration and Customs Enforcement
* Immigration and Naturalization Service (Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services)
* Indian Affairs, Bureau of
* Indiana Home Page
* Indian Arts and Crafts Board
* Indiana State, County and City Websites
* Indian Health Service
* Industrial College of the Armed Forces
* Industry and Security, Bureau of (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration)
* Information Resource Management College
* Innovation and Improvement Office
* Institute of Education Sciences
* Institute of Museum and Library Services
* Institute of Peace
* Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group
* Interagency Council on Homelessness
* Inter-American Foundation
* Interior Department
* Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
* International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
* International Labor Affairs, Bureau of
* International Trade Administration (ITA)
* International Trade Commission
* Iowa Home Page
* Iowa State, County and City Websites
* James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
* Japan-United States Friendship Commission
* John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
* Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
* Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
* Joint Fire Science Program
* Joint Forces Command
* Joint Forces Staff College
* Joint Military Intelligence College
* Judicial Circuit Courts of Appeal, by Geographic Location and Circuit
* Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
* Justice Department
* Justice Programs Office (Juvenile Justice, Victims of Crime, Violence Against Women and more)
* Justice Statistics, Bureau of
* Kansas Home Page
* Kansas State, County and City Websites
* Kentucky Home Page
* Kentucky State, County and City Websites
* Labor Department (DOL)
* Labor Statistics, Bureau of
* Land Management, Bureau of
* Lead Hazard Control (Housing and Urban Development Department)
* Legal Services Corporation
* Library of Congress
* Local Governments
* Louisiana Home Page
* Louisiana State, County and City Websites
* Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (formerly Minerals Management Service)
* Maine Home Page
* Maine State, County and City Websites
* Marine Corps
* Marine Mammal Commission
* Maritime Administration
* Marketing and Regulatory Programs (Agriculture Department)
* Marshals Service
* Maryland Home Page
* Maryland State, County and City Websites
* Massachusetts Home Page
* Massachusetts State, County and City Websites
* Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
* Merit Systems Protection Board
* Michigan Home Page
* Michigan State, County and City Websites
* Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
* Military Postal Service Agency
* Millennium Challenge Corporation
* Mine Safety and Health Administration
* Minnesota Home Page
* Minnesota State, County and City Websites
* Minority Business Development Agency
* Mint (Treasury Department)
* Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
* Mississippi Home Page
* Mississippi River Commission
* Mississippi State, County and City Websites
* Missouri Home Page
* Missouri State, County and City Websites
* Montana Home Page
* Montana State, County and City Websites
* Morris K. Udall Foundation: Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy
* Multifamily Housing Office
* National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
* National Agricultural Statistics Service
* National AIDS Policy Office
* National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
* National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
* National Capital Planning Commission
* National Cemetery Administration (Veterans Affairs Department)
* National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
* National Constitution Center
* National Council on Disability
* National Counterintelligence Executive, Office of
* National Credit Union Administration
* National Defense University
* National Drug Intelligence Center
* National Economic Council
* National Endowment for the Arts
* National Endowment for the Humanities
* National Gallery of Art
* National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
* National Guard
* National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
* National Indian Gaming Commission
* National Institute for Literacy
* National Institute of Justice
* National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
* National Institutes of Health (NIH)
* National Interagency Fire Center
* National Laboratories (Energy Department)
* National Labor Relations Board
* National Marine Fisheries Service
* National Mediation Board
* National Nuclear Security Administration
* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
* National Ocean Service
* National Park Foundation
* National Park Service
* National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
* National Reconnaissance Office
* National Science Foundation
* National Security Agency (NSA)
* National Security Council
* National Technical Information Service
* National Telecommunications and Information Administration
* National Transportation Safety Board
* National War College
* National Weather Service
* Natural Resources Conservation Service
* Navy
* Nebraska Home Page
* Nebraska State, County and City Websites
* Nevada Home Page
* Nevada State, County and City Websites
* New Hampshire Home Page
* New Hampshire State, County and City Websites
* New Jersey Home Page
* New Jersey State, County and City Websites
* New Mexico Home Page
* New Mexico State, County and City Websites
* New York Home Page
* New York State, County and City Websites
* North Carolina Home Page
* North Carolina State, County and City Websites
* North Dakota Home Page
* North Dakota State, County and City Websites
* Northern Command
* Northwest Power Planning Council
* Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
* Nuclear Regulatory Commission
* Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
* Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
* Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
* Office of Compliance
* Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
* Office of Government Ethics
* Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
* Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
* Office of Personnel Management
* Office of Refugee Resettlement
* Office of Science and Technology Policy
* Office of Scientific and Technical Information
* Office of Special Counsel
* Office of Thrift Supervision
* Ohio Home Page
* Ohio State, County and City Websites
* Oklahoma Home Page
* Oklahoma State, County and City Websites
* Open World Leadership Center
* Oregon Home Page
* Oregon State, County and City Websites
* Overseas Private Investment Corporation
* Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
* Pacific Command
* Pardon Attorney Office
* Parole Commission (Justice Department)
* Patent and Trademark Office
* Peace Corps
* Pennsylvania Home Page
* Pennsylvania State, County and City Websites
* Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (now the Employee Benefits Security Administration)
* Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
* Pentagon Force Protection Agency
* Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
* Policy Development and Research (Housing and Urban Development Department)
* Political Affairs (State Department)
* Postal Regulatory Commission
* Postal Service (USPS)
* Power Administrations
* Presidio Trust
* Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
* Public and Indian Housing
* Public Debt, Bureau of
* Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (State Department)
* Puerto Rico Home Page
* Radio and TV Marti (Español)
* Radio Free Asia (RFA)
* Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
* Railroad Retirement Board
* Reclamation, Bureau of
* Refugee Resettlement
* Regulatory Information Service Center
* Rehabilitation Services Administration (Education Department)
* Research, Education and Economics (Agriculture Department)
* Research and Innovative Technology Administration (Transportation Department)
* Rhode Island Home Page
* Rhode Island State, County and City Websites
* Risk Management Agency (Agriculture Department)
* Rural Business and Cooperative Programs
* Rural Development
* Rural Housing Service
* Rural Utilities Service
* Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
* Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
* Science Office (Energy Department)
* Secret Service
* Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
* Selective Service System
* Senate
* Senate Committees
* Senate Leadership
* Senators on the Web
* Small Business Administration (SBA)
* Smithsonian Institution
* Social Security Administration (SSA)
* Social Security Advisory Board
* South Carolina Home Page
* South Carolina State, County and City Websites
* South Dakota Home Page
* South Dakota State, County and City Websites
* Southeastern Power Administration
* Southern Command
* Southwestern Power Administration
* Special Forces Operations Command
* State Agencies by Topic
* State Department
* State Home Pages
* State Justice Institute
* Stennis Center for Public Service
* Strategic Command
* Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
* Supreme Court of the United States
* Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement
* Surface Transportation Board
* Susquehanna River Basin Commission
* Tax Court
* Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
* Tennessee Home Page
* Tennessee State, County and City Websites
* Tennessee Valley Authority
* Territories of the United States
* Texas Home Page
* Texas State, County and City Websites
* Transportation Command
* Transportation Department (DOT)
* Transportation Security Administration
* Transportation Statistics, Bureau of
* Treasury Department
* TRICARE Management
* Trustee Program (Justice Department)
* U.S. Border Patrol (now Customs and Border Protection)
* U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
* U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
* U.S. Customs and Border Protection
* U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
* U.S. International Trade Commission
* U.S. Military Academy, West Point
* U.S. Mint
* U.S. Mission to the United Nations
* U.S. National Central Bureau – Interpol (Justice Department)
* U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
* U.S. Sentencing Commission
* U.S. Trade and Development Agency
* U.S. Trade Representative
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* Unified Combatant Commands (Defense Department)
* Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
* Utah Home Page
* Utah State, County and City Websites
* Vermont Home Page
* Vermont State, County or City Websites
* Veterans Affairs Department (VA)
* Veterans Benefits Administration
* Veterans’ Employment and Training Service
* Veterans Health Administration
* Vietnam Educational Foundation
* Virginia Home Page
* Virginia State, County and City Websites
* Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)
* Voice of America (VOA)
* Veterans Day National Committee
* Washington Headquarters Services
* Washington Home Page
* Washington State, County and City Websites
* Weather Service, National
* Western Area Power Administration
* West Point (Army)
* West Virginia Home Page
* West Virginia State, County and City Websites
* White House
* White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
* White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
* White House Office of Administration
* Wisconsin Home Page
* Wisconsin State, County and City Websites
* Women’s Bureau (Labor Department)
* Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
* Wyoming Home Page
* Wyoming State, County and City Websites

Vancouver taxpayers on hook for $1-billion as most Olympic Village units unsold

When businesses are incompetent, they go bankrupt.

open quoteSixty-six per cent of Vancouver’s pricey Olympic Village condos remain unsold — a total of 483 units at the massive False Creek development that served as athletes’ housing during the two-week 2010 Games.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, whose city remains on the hook for more than $1.03 billion of the cost of the project, predicts it will take a “full two-year term” to sell the remaining units.close quote (Read more from theprovince.com)

Surprise, surprise another Federal agency is broke! This time, the National Flood Insurance Program, run by FEMA.

I’m also categorizing this under war on commerce, because government run insurance kills business opportunities for entrepreneurs who might insure profitably by actually measuring risk.

In Wilkinson County, Miss., a home has been flooded 34 times since 1978.

Extraordinary as the damage may be, even more extraordinary is that an insurer has paid claims every time, required no flood proofing, never raised premiums after a claim and vowed to continue insuring the house. Forever.

The home’s value is $69,900. Yet the total insurance payments are nearly 10 times that: $663,000.

It’s no surprise that the insurer faces huge financial problems.

The insurer? The federal government. (Read more from usatoday.com)

Bureaucratic management at its finest. I can hear the rebuttal of my socialist friends now: “If we don’t like the way the government does flood insurance, we can vote them out. If it’s a corporation, we’re stuck.”

FOX & ABCNNBBCBS: MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO! MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO! THE EERANIANS AR COMIN TO GIT YOU!

President Obama’s electric car subsidies are snobby and foolish

It’s official: The Chevrolet Volt, the new plug-in electric hybrid car from General Motors, will cost $41,000—that’s a four-seat hatchback for about the base price of a BMW 335i. To be sure, a $7,500 federal tax credit cuts that to $33,500, and electricity is cheaper per mile than gas. But barring some huge oil price spike or stiff new gas tax, it would take more than a decade to offset the higher purchase price.

. . . .

And that’s my problem with the Obama administration’s energy policy, or at least with his lavish subsidies for the Volt, Nissan’s all-electric Leaf (likely sticker price $33,000), and Tesla’s $100,000 all-electric Roadster: Where does the federal government get off spending the average person’s tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars? (Read more from slate.com)

Surprising that this was publish by the leftist, pro-state, pro-green Slate.com.

California Official’s $800,000 Salary in City of 38,000 Triggers Protests

Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.

An overflow crowd packed a City Council meeting in Bell, a mostly Hispanic city of 38,000 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, to call for the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hernandez and other city officials. Residents left standing outside the chamber banged on the doors and shouted “fuera,” or “get out” in Spanish.

It was the first council meeting since the Los Angeles Times reported July 15 that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns $787,637 — with annual 12 percent raises — and that Bell pays its police chief $457,000, more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck makes in a city of 3.8 million people. Bell council members earn almost $100,000 for part-time work. (Read more from bloomberg.com)

The Real U.S. Government

The Washington Post’s Dana Priest demonstrates once again why she’s easily one of the best investigative journalists in the nation — if not the best — with the publication of Part I of her series, co-written with William Arkin, detailing the sprawling, unaccountable, inexorably growing secret U.S. Government: what the article calls “Top Secret America.” To the extent the series receives much substantive attention (and I doubt it will), the focus will likely be on the bureaucratic problems it documents: the massive redundancies, overlap, waste, and inefficiencies which plague this “hidden world, growing beyond control” — as though everything would better if Top Secret America just functioned a bit more effectively. But the far more significant fact so compellingly illustrated by this first installment is the one I described last week when writing about the Obama administration’s escalating war on whistle blowers:

Most of what the U.S. Government does of any significance — literally — occurs behind a vast wall of secrecy, completely unknown to the citizenry. . . . Secrecy is the religion of the political class, and the prime enabler of its corruption. That’s why whistle blowers are among the most hated heretics. They’re one of the very few classes of people able to shed a small amount of light on what actually takes place.

(Read more from salon.com)

Green Government: After an almost half billion dollar gov’t loan, we get $100k cars nobody wants

Re: The New York Times’ With First Share Offering, Tesla Bets on Electric Car’s Future

Patrick Barron wrote:

Dear Sirs:
Your article about the upcoming Tesla Motors IPO illustrates beautifully how our government gambles with the peoples’ money. The government has “loaned” Tesla $465 million. I put the word “loan” in parentheses, because this is not a real loan. Undoubtedly the rate is below market, but there is no way of knowing, because there is no loan market for Tesla Motors. No bank board of directors would ever approve such a loan of its depositors’ money. The article speaks for itself–Tesla has lost $290.2 million since it was founded in 2003. It has produced a grand total of one thousand cars, priced at over $100,000 a piece. Its current car has minimal range and few places where it can be recharged. By the time Tesla rolls out its next model, the big players such as Nissan will be offering all-electric cars at a fraction of Tesla’s price. But how can there be a significant market for an all-electric car when nowhere can one find out its electricity cost per mile? And where will America get the power? The government, via the EPA, is making it almost impossible for America’s utility companies to add electricity production. In fact, some current coal-fired power plants are threatened with closure. Nevertheless, the government is pushing this technology and trying to lure buyers by granting tax credits to purchasers of all-electric cars. But, there’s a sucker born every minute. So, if you loved the DeLorean, you’ll probably buy a Tesla.