Either the law is upheld, or it's struck down, and we have a clear path to single payer

As Jon Stewart said, using Solyndra as example is like standing in front of the Hindenburg disaster and saying "See, I told you! Air travel will never work!"

If we had to rely on government to fly, we would be lucky if they could come up with a Hindenburg.

DOE has been in business since the 70s and cost us roughly $20 Billion per year. What have the given us? After nearly a Trillion dollars have been spent, what does the government know about energy? Absolutely nothing. DOE is not going to give us the energy source of the future.

President Barack Obama unveiled on May 7 a $26.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2010, including $2.3 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The budget aims to substantially expand the use of renewable energy sources while improving energy transmission infrastructure. It also makes significant investments in hybrids and plug-in hybrids, in smart grid technologies, and in scientific research and innovation.[5]

As part of the $789 billion economic stimulus package in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress provided Energy with an additional $38.3 billion for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, adding about 75 percent to Energy's annual budgets. Most of the stimulus spending was in the form of grants and contracts. Yet, according to Robert Alvarez, "Even with additional stimulus money, spending for bombs and cleanup will still exceed those for actual energy-related functions. Spending for the weapons complex is currently comparable to that during the height of the nuclear arms race in the 1950s. The big difference now — half of that money is spent dealing with the Cold War's environmental legacy.[6] "

Good thing we didn't rely on government to build the atom bomb, or Germany would have beat us to it, and we would all be Nazis now.

If the plans to build an Atom Bomb were protected by Coca Cola instead of the U.S. Government, not a single third world dictatorship would have nukes right now.

Problem is your facts are bogus. DOE Budget for 2005 was less than $2 Billion according to this source. There's no way we spent a trillion on the DOE since the 70s.

The ONLY thing government excels at and exceeds the average expectations of private enterprise.

$2 Billion is for Energy alone, I am talking about the full DOE budget, which as you can see from the above graph, is roughly $20 Billion a year.

Mojave Aerospace makes a profit with Spaceship One? Who's distorting what? Show me one profitable 'take people to space' private company and then maybe you can make this point fly... until then? Grounded. No profit for you!

Of course, it's literally impossible for anyone but Americans (with the help of a certain liberal German Jewish guy with terminally bad hair) to figure out how to split the atom

20 Billion maybe for 2011 but that's not the historic case. Just as Defense Spending has doubled since 2001, I serious doubt your claim of a trillion dollars spent by the DOE since the 70s and much of that spending is really defense spending in disguise (Nuclear weapons and cleanup for nukes)

Once the frizzy-haired guy cracked the code, the rest was a foregone conclusion.

And you're whole line of reasoning here is facetious, I hope, right?

At least you're being intentionally entertaining - you wouldn't believe what your ideological counterparts on this thread try to pass off as serious discourse - it's a comedy gold mine.

Of course, it's literally impossible for anyone but Americans (with the help of a certain liberal German Jewish guy with terminally bad hair) to figure out how to split the atom

No one wants to destroy it.

Just put it back in its Constitutional box.

How many permanent jobs did Iraq create?

Trying to remember how many permanent jobs the Apollo project created, or the Manhattan Project