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Unemployed Construction Workers Trained For "Green Jobs"
KESQ News Channel 3 ^ | Jan 20, 2010 | By Nathan Baca

Posted on 01/23/2010 7:51:26 AM PST by Son House

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Shovel ready? Democrats just didn't say which shovel. It was the shovel to bury the economy.

They now have a 'forced sector', green jobs. It's the only sector Democrats will allow. All other job sectors to be cancelled ASAP

1 posted on 01/23/2010 7:51:26 AM PST by Son House
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Obama wants a depression so his government can become legion in the world. he wants to the pres of the world..


2 posted on 01/23/2010 7:54:07 AM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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Well if they’re going to be building all those green businesses, why are there unemployed construction workers?


3 posted on 01/23/2010 7:54:52 AM PST by whershey
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To: Son House
There are many steps between here and there, especially since the country is broke. Between finding the money and assuaging the nimby environmental wackoes, getting to "shovel-ready" may not be easy. If I were this guy I wouldn't be counting my solar panels just yet.
4 posted on 01/23/2010 7:58:55 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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Wind power is one of the more expensive forms of energy, solar is the most expensive of all.

Smashing the Greenhouse:
http://www.brayincandy.com/

Pray for America’s Freedom


5 posted on 01/23/2010 8:00:13 AM PST by bray (Can you hear the Tea Patriots Now?)
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To: whershey

Just how often are there repair issues with wind turbines and solar panels?


6 posted on 01/23/2010 8:01:20 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (Episode 2010: A NEW HOPE)
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So, to have all these "green jobs" we need supplies and materials to make these "green projects." Somehow, I get the impression the mining, manufacture, chemical processing, and transportation of the materials isn't so green.

How ironic.

7 posted on 01/23/2010 8:02:57 AM PST by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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$870 billion Stimulus bill and there are unemployed construction workers?

That money has disappeared with no stimulus effect. February 17, 2009, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 111th United States CONgress


8 posted on 01/23/2010 8:03:15 AM PST by Son House (The Learning Curve for Democrats on Macroeconomics is getting Exponential)
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"Wind Turbine Technician Training Program,"...???

I sometimes think the radical Greens are prepping us for a return to the Stone Age.

What's next?

Firestarting 101?

Spearmaking for Dummies?

9 posted on 01/23/2010 8:04:21 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Son House

Reagan’s rising tide lifted all boats but the selective ‘Rat ideology only floats the rubber duckies higher in their own bathtubs. Economic MORONS— no wonder why he have no new real jobs!


10 posted on 01/23/2010 8:08:04 AM PST by tflabo (II)
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Minnesota’s sick and poor, hospitals, brace for end of GAMC

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=836256&catid=391

“I’m worried for a lot of people out there that need psych meds and stuff,” said Chuck Hinshaw, an unemployed construction worker who attended a large rally outside Hennepin County Medical Center last fall.

He said he had been using GAMC while he looked for work, which has been a particularly tough search in the last year.

“I’ve put out over 1400 resumes since the since the first of (2009) and had three interviews,” he said.


11 posted on 01/23/2010 8:08:54 AM PST by Son House (The Learning Curve for Democrats on Macroeconomics is getting Exponential)
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And of course 100% of construction workers are college material ;-)

What a crock of shiite.


12 posted on 01/23/2010 8:13:57 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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“PALM SPRINGS - Unemployed construction workers may be able to get some new jobs fixing windmills and solar panels.”

What horseshit.

Government windmill factories next.


13 posted on 01/23/2010 8:13:59 AM PST by headstamp 2
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Ywa, I just imagine that California built all those windmills out in the desert and doesn’t have anyone to provide maintenance on them.


14 posted on 01/23/2010 8:13:59 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
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Windmills and solar panels are little more than boondoggles and these jobs will soon be gone.


15 posted on 01/23/2010 8:16:58 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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There ain't any friggin' green jobs. We have one windmill down the road that's been there for years and serves a small industrial building.

Everywhere else in the area is served by existing gas and electric...a few people still have oil...

If we want windmill electric, we have to pay extra each month. Why would I want to pay 25% more for the same product??

16 posted on 01/23/2010 8:17:43 AM PST by Sacajaweau (What)
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So, to have all these "green jobs" we need supplies and materials to make these "green projects." Somehow, I get the impression the mining, manufacture, chemical processing, and transportation of the materials isn't so green.

And to have enough jobs to employ all those construction works repairing windmills and solar panels, we're going to have to make a whole lot of really crappy windmills and solar panels - on purpose.

17 posted on 01/23/2010 8:18:48 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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WHITES NEED NOT APPLY!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxuUj6vFa4


18 posted on 01/23/2010 8:27:18 AM PST by Roccus (ABLE DANGER?????...................What's an ABLE DANGER???)
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“Unemployed Construction Workers Trained” for temporary ‘Green Jobs’ which do not exist, and even when they do those jobs will be far and few between.

‘Green Jobs’ cost $1,000,000 per job - at least in Spain - here in the US expect that number to be much higher., since the jobs will turn out to be union jobs...

The poor guys have been hoodwinked - the Dems did this to commercial salmon fishermen when Clinton was in office. Result was a bonanza for real estaters when the guy had to move and sell his home for pennies on the dollar - but had to leave the wife and kiddies behind making more work for divorce lawyers...


19 posted on 01/23/2010 8:35:13 AM PST by PIF
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So,

Now Obama says we have “jobs” and then we have “green jobs”.

“jobs” = BAD

“green jobs” = GOOD

Literally they are talking about spending your tax dollars training people to work on windmills. This is insanity. I defy anyone to find an ad seeking a qualified windmill repairman. These jobs do not exist.

20 posted on 01/23/2010 8:45:57 AM PST by Gabrial (ObamaCare: The efficiency of the Post Office, the compassion of the IRS, the costs of the Pentagon)
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