 it s not always sunny in the west i was wondering recently how the government could best waste my money there are lots of ways the war on poverty the lost costliest most ineffective war in history that is a good waste of money perhaps funding cowboy poetry  who doesn t love a good poem hellip with cowboys but for my money a great way is pointless investing is green energy like the booming solar energy construction in the southwest oh  wait a minute  five years after the obama administration rsquo s renewable energy initiative touched off a building boom of largescale solar power plants across the desert southwest the pace of development has slowed to a crawl with a number of companies going out of business and major projects canceled for lack of financing of the 365 federal solar applications since 2009 just 20 plants are on track to be built only three largescale solar facilities have gone online two in california and one in nevada the first auction of public land for solar developers an event once highly anticipated by federal planners failed to draw a single bid last fall yes not a single bid for land for the 21st century equivalent of the homestead act  because in obama s america why give to people who could improve the land and their lives when you could make a vapid political statement to appeal to environmental fascists and useful idiots while rewarding big donors it s the perfect democrat policy if somehow they could work racial division amnesty into the picture it would be ideal but the big investors of green energy aren t stupid they see that the profits in this industry are illusionary propped up only by tax dollars ldquo nobody rsquo s going to break ground on any big new solar projects right now mdash utilities want to see how farms coming online this year fit into the grid and developers are waiting for more certainty about state policies and federal tax credits rdquo i like the honesty the developers aren t going to break ground unless they have guaranteed funds from the moneys forcibly removed from the pockets of millions of taxpayers this is big business these days i would invest my own money your typical green energy developer would say but if i can not use my own money and take donations from politicians trying to curry favor with clueless leftwing voters i think i ll do that instead i have no doubt that eventually government will get its way and force the development of solar panel farms despite what common sense dictates but this is a good example of how little the demand for this apparent energy of the future actually is  