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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Central Planners sending a hint about what jobs they think will be in high demand in the future. Their track record is very spotty. But when you can create new money out of thin air, any government program costs you nothing, so why no try things that sound good and have great “optics” with your leftist base?
Near-infinite money buys near-infinite government.
https://www.google.se/#safe=off&q=irish+growth+7.7%25
Scotland and America are not part of Ireland.
The burden of a huge national debt like that of America or Greece is detrimental to a sound economic development, guess we both agree.
On the other hand, I doubt having zero national debt is the best way to go for all countries.
I'm Swedish and my country has a rather modest national debt compared to other countries. Our currency, SEK (the Krona), is strong but do we wish to make it even stronger through reducing our national debt?
Perhaps not, as this would hurt Swedish exports and therefore all of Sweden's economy.
Neighboring Denmark boasts an even stronger currency than we do but also slower GDP growth.
Switzerland is yet another example of a nation that hardly would gain from an even stronger currency. Ask any economist of that country and they'll agree the strength of the Swiss franc poses a severe threat to their economy.
I believe my nation has achieved a healthy balance. We have somewhat of a national debt but still an AAA-rating.
Could the US one day accomplish this? Yes, probably. Especially if Europe (as well as certain other allies) would begin contributing to the defense of the Free World more than we Europeans presently are doing. On that account Europeans are more indebted to American tax payers than Americans are to European bankers..
Right now I have 9 employee’s taking care of all of our production, everyone is a Veteran. Several of these men had no experience in the field but they had already proven a loyalty and determination that cannot be taught, I’ll teach them the rest. I only hire Veterans!
Didn’t ISIS put out an order for local muslims to find our veterans and kill them? Is this government trying to get them in groups for the local muslims to kill?
I suppose this will be paid for from Obama’s stash
Eco-nut policies remain the biggest bad joke ever.
If 0 and mooch would quit going on vacations in separate aircraft, they could cut that much emissions. Austin has a solar facility just to the east of the city and the power cost is much higher than from the coal fired plant a few miles further east.
Coal ash is the New Asbestos for the wealth transfer industry.
I have been seeing the old asbestos lawsuit ads being replaced by fly Ash ads. Ambulance chasers making a buck off the War on Coal.
Just more of government training its citizens for jobs that do not exist. Started with Clinton I believe.
What happened to training 50,000 to calk cracks in houses?
Or climate change causes it to get dark every night.
There afe going to be 49,900 unemployed solar panel installers come of this. If the market needed 50k solar panel installers the market would produce them. The government trains people for skilled unemployment.
Oh, that’s easy...In Alaska, they have what are called polar panels...When there is no more sunlight and energy to heat is running low, the polar panel gets together and decides who to feed to the polar bears...It’s quite economical and one never has to worry again about losing that person’s vote...
Think I’ll apply for that training...see if age discrimination is in their dictionary. :>)
How about training them to fix cars or do plumbing - professions that won’t be gone the minute RATIONAL economics is applied.
WE are going to bite the bullet and put in a plug and play system for our mountain place when we get up there fulltime. At some point the grid will go down either from too much stress, hackers or physical sabateuge. $15,000 so I don’t have to wash clothes over a fire in the front yard and haul water. I’m no pioneer. :-)
And they will have to train tree cutters, can’t have trees blocking the sunlight. The tree huggers will protest.
A few years ago in California, a homeowner installed solar panels, then took his neighbor to court because the neighbors Redwood trees were blocking the sun, the court ordered the trees to be cut down. Of course if the Redwood tree owner wanted to cut them down he would’ve been prohibited.
I think you will find that the Irish number will be revised downward.
It does not align with the other data they are reporting. They still have a 11.2 unemployment rate.
Obama’s bean counters do the same here in the US, during election cycles in particular. Every now and them they have to make major corrections which in the US was last quarter where we posted a negative rate.
I have also been to Ireland. I think people in the US would be shocked at how they live. Not just in Ireland and Scotland, but much of the Eurozone.
Yes, Switzerland and Sweden are outliers in comparison. Sweden with it’s default currency and Switzerland’s banking system. Both have a superior education system as well. Much better than the US.
But the Eurozone as a whole, is a financial cesspool.
As of a couple of years ago it couldn't. One production plant was going to be built in my county. It would have taken the total generation capacity of Norris Dam just to power it.
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