Posted on 09/22/2011 11:37:31 AM PDT by Nachum
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis admitted Thursday morning during a congressional hearing that she and the Obama administration believe driving a bus that happens to run on “clean energy” should count as a “green job.”
Florida Republican Rep. Connie Mack, questioning Solis during a House oversight committee hearing about why she and the Obama administration consider a man driving a “clean energy” bus to have a “green job,” pushed her on the absurdity of her argument. “Driving a bus is driving a bus, right?” Mack asked her. “I mean, you turn the wheel, you push the gas, you use the brake?”
Because the vehicles run on “clean energy,” Solis and the Obama administration classify the jobs of their drivers as “green jobs.”
“If you go back to the argument that’s being made about how you substantiate the green industry, the vehicles that were built there are hybrid vehicles, they’re fuel efficient,” Solis responded.
“If I’m sitting in a chair made out of ‘green’ material, does that make my job ‘green’?” Mack shot back. “I mean, he is driving a bus, and to count it as a ‘green job’…”
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And yet the lies will continue.
Ever notice the MORE jobs Obama (claims) creates or saves the higher unemployment #s goes?
We cant afford anymore Obama jobs.
Everyone should keep in mind that they DO know that “green energy” will never be capable of supporting a capitalist economy, and that’s the point.
>>> she and the Obama administration consider a man driving a “clean energy” bus to have a “green job”,
By the same token (logical argument), everybody currently still has a job ‘benefited from Obama’s America Recovery Act’.
Senator Klobuchar (D-Mn) 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goTYOjh2q9M&feature=related
Klobuchar “As Van Jones has said, who is a guy who has written a book about the green collar economy, when you think about the green economy, don’t think about Buck Rogers; think about joe six-pack putting on a green hard hat. Think about Rosie the riveter manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines. This is President Obama’s plan — jobs, jobs, jobs.”
These people are insane
Maybe they painted the bus green.
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