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   From: impeach_obama@yahoo.com   
      
   Black workers at a Michigan battery plant built with a $150   
   million federal stimulus grant but never opened played games and   
   watched movies while their wages were paid for by U.S.   
   taxpayers, according to a government report.   
      
   South Korea-based LG Chem, which used the grant money to build a   
   factory that was supposed to make batteries for the Chevy Volt,   
   has paid back $842,000 in wages it improperly billed to the   
   government, but still has no plans to start production in the   
   facility or return the grant. The company makes Volt batteries   
   at another plant in South Korea.   
      
   “Our review revealed that LG Chem Michigan inappropriately   
   claimed and was reimbursed for labor charges incurred by a   
   variety of supervisory and staff employees for activities that   
   did not benefit the project,” stated the report, by the DOE’s   
   Inspector General. “… we confirmed that employees spent time   
   volunteering at local non-profit organizations, playing games   
   and watching movies during regular working hours.”   
      
   The report blamed company officials as well as the DOE, charging   
   the federal agency failed to make the grant conditional on the   
   company actually starting production at the plant. LG Chem   
   claims production has not been expanded to the U.S. plant   
   because demand for the Volt has not yet required it.   
      
   “Until the shift in production takes place or some alternative   
   use for the plant is developed, U.S. taxpayers will receive   
   little direct benefit from a plant for which they provided up to   
   half of the funding,” the report stated.   
      
   The report was begun after the DOE received complaints that   
   idled LG Chem workers were playing games and watching movies   
   inside the dormant factory.   
      
   The Inspector General said getting LG Chem to return some of the   
   labor costs – a drop in the bucket compared to the overall grant   
   – was the best taxpayers could hope for because the grant was   
   awarded without sufficient strings attached. And even the labor   
   costs could be low, the report stated.   
      
   “We were unable to calculate the exact loss to the government   
   because LG Chem Michigan did not track labor activities in   
   detail,” according to the report.   
      
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