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U.S. will train 50,000 veterans to install solar panels
CTV News / The Associated Press ^ | September 18, 2014 | Josh Lederman, The Associated Press

Posted on 09/20/2014 3:21:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday.

The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: economy; employment; labormarket; solarpower; vet; veteran; veterans; vets
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1 posted on 09/20/2014 3:21:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh great!

Wonderful idea,,,,

Job security for a lifetime....lol...


2 posted on 09/20/2014 3:23:14 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Cold Heat

When I was a veteran’s career counselor it was all about asbestos abatement. Haven’t heard much about that lately.


3 posted on 09/20/2014 3:25:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What idiocy.


4 posted on 09/20/2014 3:26:53 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They still have business...

Even if they demolish a structure or do controlled burn, most jurisdictions require a asbestos clearance or removal. A lot of them have it in the floor tiles..


5 posted on 09/20/2014 3:31:02 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course not many people can afford to buy solar panels.
And what happens when climate change causes 7 months of cloudy days? /s


6 posted on 09/20/2014 3:31:11 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Time for torches and pitchforks.)
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To: Cold Heat

Training unemployed vets for this is a good idea.

However, until the solar panels operate in microgrids, they won’t have much impact. When that day comes, and it will, this program might work for the vets.


7 posted on 09/20/2014 3:35:52 AM PDT by sakic
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To: FreedomGuru

I am planning to put a small array at my place in the country in Alabama.

I want a degree of self sufficiency and there is not much sense in running a generator to power some small loads like lighting or rechargers..

Just a simple system with storage batteries and a inverter..


8 posted on 09/20/2014 3:35:56 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: sakic

I don’t see solar ever competing dollar for dollar with nuke or nat gas, much less coal.

Right now and for the foreseeable future it is going to be a niche business without heavy subsidies, and this country is flat broke, any way you cut it. As is most of the Western world.


9 posted on 09/20/2014 3:39:07 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: sakic

Unemployed vets are put at the head of the line at all state unemployment agencies..have been since Vietnam and even going back to WWII it was a general gratuity to veterans to give them priority.

I don’t see this jobs program as anything more than unadulterated politics.


10 posted on 09/20/2014 3:42:39 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Cold Heat

It goes without saying that training someone to do something only starts with the trainees ability of aptitude of basic skills to accomplish a said task.

Some people were just not equipped to turn a screw driver or manipulate a multi-tool. Just making a blanket statement like they did is nothing more than more of their posturing behind the curtain. Just another of “Hey! Lets come up with something to show the vets we are on their side!”, while at the same time they cannot get into a VA Hospital.

Then like another poster said in referencing the available workload to sustain a paycheck, these unicorn chasers in the White Hut have no friggin idea.


11 posted on 09/20/2014 3:44:16 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I knew a guy who was running a solar water heater business. His business model was to hire a new salesman. The salesman would sell a heater to all his friends and family. He’d then fire that salesman and hire another. This is in a similar vein.


12 posted on 09/20/2014 3:51:03 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another way of Obama funneling fed money to his cronies, keeping them afloat.

So many of Obama’s GREEN ENERGY companies got gobs of fed money then went bankrupt, you know......


13 posted on 09/20/2014 3:51:37 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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And who`s going to pay for all of it, panels, installers, and equipment? Grab your wallets people, or grab your ankles!

I call more green BULL SH!T!

14 posted on 09/20/2014 3:54:59 AM PDT by nomad
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To: FreedomGuru

How about Alaska with months of dark?


15 posted on 09/20/2014 3:55:54 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We played this game already during the bad old days of the stimulus funding for training people for “green/energy savings” jobs. Saw it first-hand, large waste of money and time.


16 posted on 09/20/2014 4:05:25 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hasn’t the Taxpayer been snookered enough by Obama’s beloved Solar Panel Companies? I doubt any state has 50,000 new solar energy system customers a year. I doubt many states have more than 5000 new installations a year. It might do fair in western states or even for about six months a year in Alaska. For most places it usually falls into the better than nothing for remote cabins etc where residential powerline installation cost is in the tens of thousands of dollars and up.


17 posted on 09/20/2014 4:05:34 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Cold Heat

When everything hits the fan, having spent a premium dollar on some level of self-sufficiency on solar power will prove cheap indeed.

Unless you don’t believe that wont happen.


18 posted on 09/20/2014 4:09:01 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Compare these Obama Green jobs to real jobs in Fracking.

Thackney posted this the other day. The Fracking Business has found our Vet's and realizes they are top shelf employees and are snagging as many as they can.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205399/posts

19 posted on 09/20/2014 4:25:33 AM PDT by taildragger (Not my Circus, Not my Monkey ( Boy does that apply to DC...))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In this Obama Nation, the winners are the Crony Socialists. In this case the Crony Socialists are the Obama friends that do the training. Look for huge government grants to Obama friends who set up training classes.


20 posted on 09/20/2014 4:25:53 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age didnÂ’t end because we ran out of stones)
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