Solyndra backer George Kaiser in 2009: That stimulus money sure is enticing

Now, obviously in this presentation he was talking about his Family Foundation‘s efforts to obtain stimulus funding primarily for community-based initiatives, but he clearly wasn’t shy about leveraging his White House connections in order to do so, and remember that his investment in Solyndra was also made through his Foundation.

Frankly I can think of no better condemnation of the corruption and utter futility of the Obama stimulus then the fact that here you have one of the wealthiest philanthropists in America, a man with nearly $10 billion in personal assets, openly stating his intention to grab as much stimulus money as he possibly could, like every other pig at the trough.