Posted on 05/13/2012 7:40:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Calls Trash Collecting a ‘Green Job’
Federal Report: ‘Green Jobs’ Include Trash Collectors
A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report counts 3.1 million green jobs in the U.S. economy, but the BLS defines these jobs so broadly that it includes even school bus drivers and trash collectors as “green” workers. “Cheerleaders for the president’s program of green jobs mandates and spending point to the study as confirmation of green jobs’ economic importance,” said David W. Kreutzer, Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation.
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So the unskilled minimum wage guys working at the local bottle & can redemption center must be Double Green Plus.
Anything to boost the numbers.
PATHETIC.
Not a bad gig 15 bucks an hour and all you can eat
We all have green jobs listening to his B.S.
I guess running a junk yard is a green job too - all those guzzling internal combustion dreadnaughts safely off the streets.
When Obama smokes Weed , it’s so GREEN
The only really “green” job is the one that puts money in someone’s pocket.
That definition makes George Zimmerman part of the green economy—taking out the trash.
Case in point: The stimulus included a program to subsidize electric golf carts as green urban transport, or some such. The subsidy was so much that you could get a cart for free. Our neighbors got a cart. Before, their son and mine would ride their bikes to the neighborhood pool. After they got the 'green' golf cart, they drove the cart to the pool. How is that green?
Hmmmm....I would have thought that it fell under health care....
If I were owner of a trash collecting company I would not hire mac daddy, not trust worthy enough.
They will add abortion providers next.
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