Evidence is now surfacing it was the Apollo Alliance, a green jobs caldron of ideas dedicated to saving the Earth and punishing those who are unfriendly to the environment. If you look at their board they are mostly leftist and some really radical leftist like former member Van Jones, the now defrocked green jobs czar who was a self-avowed communist and community organizer in Oakland, CA. Other former members include ACORN’s founder, Wade Rathke and current member Gerald Hudson, vice president of the Service Employees International Union.
It is not new for legislation to be written by political action committees or special interest groups, but what does an activist, leftist green group know about getting our economy started again? The last time I checked, these serious greenies and for sure many of Apollo’s former board members are anti capitalism and free-enterprise, but according to Phil Kerpen of Americans for Prosperity the Apollo Alliance drafted a stimulus bill in 2008 that included most ingredients of the final $787 billion bill.
The Apollo Alliance is mostly a shell corporation, and as its name indicates, is an alliance of environmentally centered organizations, union flunkies for the left like the Union Service Employees International who turn out carrying signs for Obama’s health care rallies. Others like John Podesta, CEO of the Center for American Progress and former Clinton Chief of Staff, lend their political savvy of progressive policy to the group who has caught an angle on how to snare a large portion of the stimulus money for creating and funding green industries. If they are successful, it will amount to government funded businesses which are becoming a new paradigm, replacing entrepreneurship where individuals invested their own capital and worked hard to make sure they didn’t lose it.
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