{"id":32645,"date":"2012-11-01T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32645"},"modified":"2012-10-31T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:12:30","slug":"an-a123-systems-postscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32645","title":{"rendered":"An A123 Systems Postscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like A123 Systems, which recently went belly-up after <a href=\"..\/?p=32417\">burning through $129 million in Federal loan guarantees<\/a>, wasn\u2019t totally useless after all.\u00a0 Apparently they did create a few jobs while the money lasted.<\/p>\n<p>By the most generous count possible (combining all reports over the life of the company), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/oct\/29\/hiring-stats-elusive-in-latest-energy-failure\/\">they created at most 408 new jobs<\/a> with that Federal money.\u00a0 That averages out to over $316k in taxpayer money spent per job created.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Federal government itself does better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like A123 Systems, which recently went belly-up after burning through $129 million in Federal &hellip; <a title=\"An A123 Systems Postscript\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32645\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An A123 Systems Postscript<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}