Your socialist government at work

Here is a perfect example of the evils of government trying to
decide which companies and/or industries should be supported
instead of letting private industry do what it does best.
This is one of the companies that are getting money via the
"Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Program, established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 for projects that showed significant potential to produce new and cost-saving therapies, support jobs and increase U.S. competitiveness":
Hemispherx Biopharma Receives Therapeutic Discovery Project Grant
from U.S. Department of Treasury

Yes folks, a Penny Stock! (50 cents as I write this),
and one with a very long and very unsuccessful history:
(see the history of Ampligen).