and how you need to lose to win sometimes..
Just because his "Bain experience" has taught him how to win even when "his companies" lose.. doesn't mean that is in any way a government "model" to follow...
Mitt Romney's Tesla Diss Triggers Fierce Reactions Quote: "[D]on’t forget," Romney addressed his debate audience, "you put $90 billion, like 50 years’ worth of breaks, into—into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I mean, I had a friend who said you don’t just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers, all right? So this—this is not—this is not the kind of policy you want to have if you want to get America energy secure."
Elon Musk on SpaceX, Tesla, and Why Space Solar Power Must Die - Popular Mechanics Quote: However, he says, SpaceX isn’t just in it to make money on those contracts. Ultimately, Musk envisions a self-sustaining civilization on Mars—thus his remark about becoming an interplanetary species. That way, in case the worst happens and Earth is obliterated or used up, "the light of consciousness is not extinguished." But his vision requires tens of thousands or even millions of people on the red planet. "We’d need really big rockets launching a lot," he says
Musk’s other big current venture, Tesla Motors, isn’t quite making money yet. But Musk said today that its newest vehicle, the Model S sedan, will be making money within a month or so. PM already awarded the first model of Tesla, the Roadster, a Breakthrough award. Musk brought a Model S sedan and one of the new Model X SUV prototypes to the awards today.
Why did he start Tesla? "People were operating under the illusion that an electric car needs to be aesthetically challenged, low performance, low range, but these things don’t have to be true," Musk says. When people still didn’t believe him, he went ahead and did it himself. "So we decided to just make a car—that’s harder to ignore."
Musk’s newest innovation on the car front is the supercharger—he wants to build a nationwide network of ultra-fast chargers. The supercharger is free when you buy a Model S. "You can charge your car with the same level of convenience as putting gas in it. Charge for an hour, drive for 6 hours," he says. "The tagline is: Drive anywhere for free on pure sunlight forever."
Sorry Mitt it IS what the gov. should do............ just because you took out most risk for yourself and passed it on to others doesn't mean "we" should do it that way.......