The Washington Post’s boneheaded conventional wisdom on Solyndra | Grist

Finally, the editorial concludes with a common if fairly obvious error of fact. It says that the $527 million in taxpayer money will simply vanish, it "now cannot be used for any good objective," and the U.S. debt will grow by that amount. But that is nonsense. The money Solyndra paid its employees was spent on goods and services.