Posted on 08/04/2009 5:05:33 AM PDT by Scanian
Creating ex nihilo -- literally, out of nothing -- used to be a theological concept, God's prerogative. Today it seems, President Barack Obama and certain Western politicians claim to possess the ability to do it. Against all the laws of economics and the marketplace, they believe they can create millions of ‘green' real jobs, out of thin air, or at least air without carbon dioxide, via cap and trade.
If Obama & Co. were to remove their green-tinted glasses for just a moment and take a long hard look at the European experience they profess to cite as ‘proven', they would discover those glasses have been rose-tinted all along.
The basic assumption is that technology per se generates jobs. Mostly, it does not. Rather, technology enables jobs -- real and sustainable jobs -- based on how useful the technology is to the marketplace. To generate real industrial jobs, however, one needs a basic commodity to trade, and in the energy business this has meant oil, gas or coal. Yet ‘green' politicians and eco-lobbyists expect to create a revolution in green jobs based on ... alternative energy sources. The trouble is that alternative energy sources remain and will continue to be appallingly inefficient, offering a very poor to mostly negative return on investment. Cut off the flow of massive public subsidies and the alternative energy industrial revolution would grind to a halt tomorrow -- as the European experience already bears out.
What the EU experience shows is that for every green job created per installed MW power, a real job is destroyed elsewhere in the economy. Not to mention, it aids the reduction of competitiveness, investment in expansion and, ultimately, promotes the relocation of major companies to countries without draconian carbon regimes that cause energy price hikes.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
There are however, drilling jobs, coal mining, lumbering jobs etc...if the government would remove some of the stops....
and THESE JOBS will solve some of our other problems...
Closing these markets down is the biggest mistake they have made. They're killing the economy!!
Pelosi: ‘I’m trying to save the planet’.
Much of Congress could care less about jobs. They kneel before the alter of Al Gore and his global warming nonsense.
“Green Jobs” = Grind grampa into Soylent Green.
There’s a series of interviews with Bezmenov on youtube. It’s instructive to view them from time to time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcZiNt6ypI&feature=related
Great post. Intuitively, anyone who has a brain knows that if “green jobs” made sense economically, we would have them. This article states that case very well.
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Unemployment data for July, 2009 is to be released August 7th at the site listed. The U6 numbers are already at 16.5%!!
Watch out below!!
If Obama & Co. were to remove their green-tinted glasses for just a moment and take a long hard look at the European experience they profess to cite as ‘proven’, they would discover those glasses have been rose-tinted all along.
This statement by the writers assumes that Obama’s intent actually is to create jobs and improve things for America, while simply being wrong about how to do that.
After 7 months, Obama’s real intent seems painfully clear. The complete and utter destruction of the America our fore fathers left to us..
Government take over of private business.
Government take over of the auto,banking housing industries.
Government take over of our health care and health.
Government take over of the energy industry.
Its not about jobs, the economy,helping America(ns)
Its about power. The absolute control of every aspect of your daily life by the Federal Government.
“Closing these markets down is the biggest mistake they have made. They’re killing the economy!!”
If their intent is to destroy the economy and especially the US dollar, which I believe to be on of their main goals, then this is not the biggest mistake they have made. It is one of their tactical successes.
Precisely. Anybody who thinks Bambi actually cares about green jobs rather than power need only look at the commie who is now our “Green Czar.”
well, if you are going to destroy the auto industry you need to promise your union supporters SOMETHING to keep them bamboozled for a few more years....
If it’s not one rat scam, it’s another.
Aren't the europeans already grinding grampa into soylent green?
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