More Stimulating Than the Stimulus

摘要

Except for the on- going saga of Brett Favre, the recidivist retirer who became the world's first in-tergalactic bore, 2010 was more stimulating than the Obama administration's stim- ulus has been. Although rueled by a $535 million stimulus loan, and blessed by a presidential visit in May, California's Solyndra, Inc., which manufactures solar panels, announced in November that it was closing a factory and laying off workers. In another harbinger of our "green jobs" future, GE announced that it would shed 200 jobs by closing the last U.S. lightbulb factory: It makes old-fashioned incandescent bulbs, which become illegal in 2014, when Americans will buy the corkscrew fluorescent replacements from abroad.