Hoax.
Posted on 07/28/2009 2:40:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Obama devoted nearly $60 billion of his stimulus package to building a new green-based economy rich in renewable energy and strategies to cut carbon. But despite the price tag, not one green job yet exists. No one can yet agree on what a green job actually is. The working definition paints a broad stroke: a job that's good for the economy while simultaneously healing the earth. But that leaves lots open to interpretation—natural gas is technically a cleaner fuel than crude oil, but it's still unsustainable—making it difficult, if not impossible, to measure whether eco-based jobs are being created and whether, as the administration has claimed, they're the saviors of a sagging economy.
In large part, the very idea behind a green job ensures there will never be a full definition, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics agreed in April to start measuring data on them. (Critics, in response, quickly suspected that the BLS, an agency supposed to measure objective data, could soon help carry water for an administration eager to show the stimulus is working.) Several environmental advocates polled by NEWSWEEK defined green jobs the way Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously defined obscenity: I'll know it when I see it.
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Hoax.
they are the jobs that the Counterfeit’s “straw men” work.
The H0ax has greened up plenty of his cronies wallets.
There is no definition of a green job. Talking about green jobs is feel-good rhetoric.
Demoncrats: The party of the unintended consequence.
Or are they really unintended???
Obama the Liar makes Carter look brilliant!
It speaks volumes that his Green Jobs “czar” is a communist. I’m sure all activist (read: ACORN) jobs will be classified as GREEN.
A Green job is mucking out a stall at the pig farm.
In Portland, Or. a green job includes the welder working on anything mass transit oriented...but, hydroelectric power isn’t considered green sustainable power so those welders are evil environmental destroying scum.
“green jobs” is the underground cash going to FOO’s....
Click onto: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Report on the upper right.[excel sheet]
Lots of green jobs/sarc.
There’s loads of lawn mowing and landscaping jobs [that would be done anyways]- some solar stuff for barely used national park buildings - you know, Green stuff.....
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