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Governor announces environmental job training program
Daily News, Los Angeles ^ | 8/31/09 | Rick Orlov

Posted on 09/01/2009 8:14:50 PM PDT by Haddit

Billing it as the largest state-sponsored green jobs training program in the nation, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday announced a $75 million program to train 20,000 workers for environmental jobs. "We will need more workers to install the solar panels and insulate the homes and do all those things that we will need," Schwarzenegger said at an announcement at Los Angeles Trade Technical College.

"We have two major problems in this state," he said. "We have high unemployment. That is crisis No. 1. Crisis No. 2 is the environment. This Clean Energy Workforce Training Program attacks both those problems."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; green; schwarzenegger
Why do we need 20,000 solar panel installers? Are they going to be licensed contractors or are they going to be union as our green czar wants. My guess is because Villiaragosa is involved it will be unions because they don't e-verify.
1 posted on 09/01/2009 8:14:51 PM PDT by Haddit
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To: Haddit

“Environmentalism” even if it provides employment, is always an open financial attack on businesses and taxpayers.


2 posted on 09/01/2009 8:18:52 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Haddit

I feel better now.


3 posted on 09/01/2009 8:19:46 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Wait a minute. Isn’t this state broke? Didn’t the Austrian Retard claim we have no money for anything anymore and taxes just have to be hiked?? But suddenly they have $75 million to train solar panel installers?? The state that is raising my payroll taxes next month and already raised our car fees under the claim of having absolutely nowhere else they could cut spending is going to spend 10s of millions to train people to install solar panels on the homes of Malibu, Santa Monica, West LA and Marin County liberal freaks? Here’s an idea—let the solar panel industry train their own installers! ELECT ME TO BE FRIGGIN’ GOVERNOR! Gawd am I living in Wonderland here???


4 posted on 09/01/2009 8:20:12 PM PDT by MissesBush
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To: Haddit

Just so they know they’ll be paid with IOU’s.....


5 posted on 09/01/2009 8:21:55 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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bump


6 posted on 09/01/2009 8:33:19 PM PDT by lowbridge
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Don’t blame me; I voted for Tom McClintock!

To all the so-called Republicans in California who just had to have Arnold, THANKS A BUNDLE!!! Those of us supporting McClintock were crapped on by the CA GOP. Now just look at this mess!!

I call him Schwartzenkennedy. Republicans in this state owe Gray Davis an apology.

Sheeeeeesh already!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 09/01/2009 8:35:12 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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Wegoddagetridahthejerk.


8 posted on 09/01/2009 8:35:21 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Saundra Duffy

I call him Governor Shriver.


9 posted on 09/01/2009 8:49:53 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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Crisis No. 2 is the environment

This man is truly an idiot.

10 posted on 09/01/2009 9:42:42 PM PDT by Prokopton
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‘Cause we can totally afford it, Dude!


11 posted on 09/01/2009 9:46:21 PM PDT by rbbeachkid (The ONLY ones able to fix the economy - Small Business Owners!)
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Another government make-work boondoggle. If there was a market for this amount of jobs in this area they would be hiring already.

Incredible stupidity.


12 posted on 09/01/2009 9:50:25 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Question Marxist Authority)
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To: MissesBush

I propose a new poll... “Who is more delusional? M. Sanford or Arnold.”


13 posted on 09/02/2009 12:17:47 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: originalbuckeye

LOL. I like that!


14 posted on 09/02/2009 12:24:30 AM PDT by elizabethgrace (WORLD CHAMPIONS - Park View Little League - Chula Vista, CA !!!!!!)
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To: Haddit
Let's just train the 40,000 prisoners to be released from Kalifornia's prisons to be solar panel installers.

I am still so glad I did not vote for Arnold. Those who did must be feeling like quite the fools. Perhaps they just wanted hope and change so bad that it didn't matter what principles their candidate had or if he even had principles at all.

15 posted on 09/02/2009 1:01:51 AM PDT by William Tell
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Idiocy reigns in CA politics!

They want to spend $3750 each for 20,000 people, to train them on how to use wrenches and connect wiring, just to satisfy the “green” voters. WTF???

Meanwhile, the environmentalists in CA have caused massive unemployment (perhaps 50-60,000) by depriving the food producers of water to save a meaningless little fish; resulting in many of the farmers going out of business and the food prices in the country rising.

I’m in favor of internment camps for greens and enviros just to remove them from their adverse impact on everyone else in the country and the country’s economy. Let them grow their own food in the camps and live like people did before we had electricity, gasoline and other evil things.


16 posted on 09/02/2009 1:55:42 AM PDT by octex
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To: Haddit

this guy’s an idiot...


17 posted on 09/02/2009 8:50:23 AM PDT by wny
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