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Obama Announces Plan to Train 75,000 Solar Workers
nbcnews.com ^ | April 3, 2015

Posted on 04/03/2015 10:38:17 PM PDT by PROCON

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To: PROCON
No clue about basic ecomonics... when there is a profit motive in producinga good or service, business will growand add more jobs that will have competitive salaries and potential employees will clamor for the positions... attain the education required for the position... on their own because there is their own motivation to profit.

I now want to punch a liberal in the face.

61 posted on 04/04/2015 4:04:12 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: PROCON

Barack’s cronies need more tens of billions from the US Treasury. ISIS needs some fighter jets.


62 posted on 04/04/2015 4:10:35 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: PROCON

He sucks in the veterans with this scam.


63 posted on 04/04/2015 4:11:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PROCON
Solar workers?
Crazy Crowded Beach in Rio De Janeiro - that is Insane!

64 posted on 04/04/2015 4:16:09 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: PROCON

Why not train 100,000? Or a million? Or 25 million? After all, the home energy auditor training program worked so well as part of porkulus.


65 posted on 04/04/2015 4:19:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: PROCON

Showing people where the plug is on a solar panel should be helpful.


66 posted on 04/04/2015 4:27:20 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: PROCON

He may actually believe SOME of this claptrap he pushes. Still does not make him a good man, or worthy of respect. He really is a commie-lite.


67 posted on 04/04/2015 4:27:49 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PROCON

Meaning he will dole these jobs out to innercity black males, a no show imaginary job and the check is in the mail


68 posted on 04/04/2015 4:30:50 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: PROCON

The article is just a bit misleading.

The plan isn’t to train actual solar technicians, the goal is to create a cadre of community organizers to teach “solar instructors”, whatever the hell that means.

It appears to be a way of funneling money to community colleges and “tech schools” via useless programs for which students will receive government backed tuition loans or grants. The Velvet Jones Community College for Solar Training would provide certificates for attendance in exchange for Obama Bucks, all on the up and up and in accordance with low expectation “course work”.

See DOE site:

http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/solar-instructor-training-network

Here’s a graphic to show the scale of the network across the various regions.

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/styles/media_energy_gov_wysiwyg_fullwidth/public/SITN-Map-update-web.png?itok=AP1a6PHa

There’s also a nifty organization pyramid graphic that shows nothing but cadre members. Nice work if you can get it.

So the primary beneficiaries will well paid deadwood at the top and the politicians who will use these newly minted government solar experts to set solar industry regulations, assist congress in crafting crony capitalism outlays, set up and control changes to building codes compliance and enforcement.

What a deal!


69 posted on 04/04/2015 4:41:32 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Zeppo

I guess he and his minions are planning on still occupying the White House in 2020.


70 posted on 04/04/2015 4:44:12 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the '17th amendment.)
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To: PROCON

All I know is, is that whoever takes over after this rake leaves office, is going to have a big mess to clean up or cover up, whichever.


71 posted on 04/04/2015 4:51:18 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: PROCON

being paid to clean solar panels decreases the cost efficiency of panels that increasingly become coated with dirt


72 posted on 04/04/2015 4:53:23 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: PROCON

Real purpose: turning military personnel into crony capitalism leftists.


73 posted on 04/04/2015 5:04:16 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: kearnyirish2
Remember, they were calling the lower employment and down economy, the "new normal" during the first term. Now nobody is shocked at how bad it's gotten because they lowered expectations.

At least these guys have dumped that phony baloney rationale of the impossible to verify or track, "jobs SAVED" mantra they used in Obama's first term.

Socialist and communists are experts at creating confusing euphemisms to fool the low information voters, as in, "you're doing better than the numbers indicate."

74 posted on 04/04/2015 5:13:09 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: PROCON
The reason Jimmy Carter failed at this is because they only had this to drink:

Nowadays, the Regime has the real deal.


75 posted on 04/04/2015 5:18:43 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Crim

Re holes in the roof: LOL, but I’ve been thinking along similar lines. It seems to me that the right system is a metal roof with standardized mounting brackets, properly spaced. Have there been frequent complaints of leaking with current installations? It seems they would be very hard to fix.


76 posted on 04/04/2015 5:19:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Crim

Some guy came to my door and dropped of info on solar. It said as long as there are no curling shingles, they can install solar panels.

Let’s see, the average roof lasts 20 years, solar cells have a 25 year lifespan, the break even point on solar is usually close to 35 years, oh, and where I live, the solar radiation charts show that on a 1-10 scale (10 best) we are a 4 for UV efficiency.

Sure dude, let’s go for it.

Nobody mentions that solar cells need to be clean to work at their peak. I’m not going on my roof once a week to wash the windows.


77 posted on 04/04/2015 5:26:00 AM PDT by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: HotHunt

As the communists have always known, it doesn’t work until the last people that remember our heyday are gone. For the time being we are just silenced/ignored.

I work with blacks that for a decade or two had lived middle-class lives, and now they are frustrated/depressed as they are cutting costs like everyone else. The new cars and annual cruises are gone, and they seem to know as much as we do that they won’t be coming back in the foreseeable future. The few that hung Obama pictures when he was elected have long since taken them down...


78 posted on 04/04/2015 5:26:20 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: PROCON
This is just another way to transfer money from my pocket to the plantation.

a bunch of new gub'mint workers to administrate, commie groups getting the money, some token vets "trained". The program will fail but still be funded.

79 posted on 04/04/2015 5:31:05 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: PROCON

AmericaWorks,by Frank Underbama.


80 posted on 04/04/2015 5:32:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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