Bonuses given after raises at Solyndra .....

So once again, we give bonuses to "great" people we just "can't" afford to lose to the "competition"....and these same "great" people run the damn Company into the ground....on the taxpayer DIME!

Several of the nearly two dozen employees at bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC who were approved for bonuses Wednesday had months earlier received pay raises as high as 70 percent, a fact the company never disclosed in its request for bonus cash.

The company’s bankruptcy attorneys sought permission for the bonuses in a court hearing, arguing that the extra cash is needed to keep key employees from fleeing only to be replaced by more expensive outside consultants.