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So you're telling me risky investments in possibly revolutionary startups can fail? If we go back to writing by PG, failures like this are proof we are making risky a enough investments to actually make a big difference.

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Strategic conduct on the part of businesses isn't the same thing as smart (or ethical, or legal) conduct when it's done by governments. Everything has a context.

I agree. Which is why government making the risky investments that more conservative businesses won't in order to create the empowering innovations that will save our environment and improve our economy is a major positive for me.

And if it just happens to benefit major contributors and bundlers to the party of the President that is in power, well, that is entirely a coincidence!

Your "proof" logic is backwards.

PG's point was not that failing means you're doing it right, but rather that never failing means you're not pushing hard enough.

I understand that. But not everything the government funds fails. I am instead disproving the case presented to me—the failure of Solyndra is not evidence of a failing government effort.

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