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Al Gore: Rent-seeking and patent conflict of interest and bending the acts of government for selfish purposes
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 17:50
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Charles Lane: Liberals’ green-energy contradictions – The Washington Post
Al Gore is about 50 times richer than he was when he left the vice presidency in 2001. According to an Oct. 11 report by The Post’s Carol D. Leonnig, Gore accumulated a Romneyesque $100 million partly through investing in alternative-energy firms subsidized by the Obama administration.
…As the Democrats become more committed to, and defined by, a green agenda, and as they become dependent on money from high-tech venture capitalists and their lobbyists, it becomes harder to describe them as a party for the little guy — or liberalism as a philosophy of distributive justice.
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