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Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises (NYT outs green jobs fraud)
New York Times ^
| 8/19/2011
| AARON GLANTZ
Posted on 08/18/2011 11:58:53 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop
Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises Who, WHO I ask, could POSSIBLY have predicted this?
Perhaps if we all get together and hope like we've never hoped before, even MORE change will come our way...
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posted on
08/19/2011 7:15:56 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Isn’t the ‘market mechanism’ which ‘helps drive new technology’ supposed to be a little thing called DEMAND?
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posted on
08/19/2011 7:21:14 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: Zeppo
Non-partisan Brookings Institute
Peace-loving Palestinians
Objective Journalism
Bi-partisan support
Internally consistent oxymoron
Journalists will say the darnedest things.
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posted on
08/19/2011 7:31:54 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: Eleutheria5
“A study released in July by the non-partisan Brookings Institution found clean-technology jobs accounted for just 2 percent”
Would love to know what Job titles fall into this 2%, I'm guessing Trash Man is one, which is probably 80% of the 2%. Of course these jobs predate the Green initiative by about 100 years. Yep a staggering success. /s
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posted on
08/19/2011 8:23:30 AM PDT
by
DAC21
To: guitarplayer1953
Great point! It doesn’t make economical sense to outsource coal or natural gas jobs.
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posted on
08/19/2011 8:41:14 AM PDT
by
MNDude
(so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
To: MrShoop
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posted on
08/19/2011 8:51:51 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: MrShoop
Green Jobs Fraud bump for later.......
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posted on
08/19/2011 8:58:38 AM PDT
by
indthkr
To: george76
Cash for Clunkers took a lot of them off the streets!
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posted on
08/19/2011 9:18:49 AM PDT
by
bfree
(The revolution is coming - OBAMI IS THE ENEMY OF FREEDOM)
To: MrShoop
do I really have to say it???
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posted on
08/19/2011 2:44:57 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: MrShoop
At Asian Neighborhood Design, a 38-year old nonprofit in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, training programs for green construction jobs have remained small because the number of available jobs is small. The group accepted just 16 of 200 applicants for the most recent 14-week cycle, making it harder to get into than the University of California. The groups training director, Jamie Brewster, said he was able to find jobs for 10 trainees within two weeks of their completing the program. Mr. Brewster said huge job losses in construction had made it nearly impossible to place large numbers of young people in the trades. Because green construction is a large component of the green economy, the moribund housing market and associated weakness in all types of building are clearly important factors in explaining the weak creation of green jobs.
Et tu NY Times?
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posted on
08/19/2011 2:55:14 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: MrShoop
It all boils down to one prominent fact that distinguishes “green jobs” from other private sector jobs - the green sector can’t survive without subsidies!
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posted on
08/20/2011 3:35:25 AM PDT
by
REPANDPROUDOFIT
(General, Sir, it is perfectly ok to call me "Ma'am"!)
To: fluorescence
(The green agenda).... achieves: the appearance of cleanlinessHow true! How true! We were on vacation in Vermont recently at a house on Lake Champlain. I asked a local if there were hydraulic power plants on the lake. The response - "Oh no, we don't have any power plants in VT. We are shutting down our nuclear plant and will buy most of our power from CANADA!"
Vermonters pride themselves on the state's minuscule production of wind energy (oooooh) and the cleanliness that results from buying the rest of their energy from another country.
Talk about hypocrisy!
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posted on
08/20/2011 3:49:11 AM PDT
by
REPANDPROUDOFIT
(General, Sir, it is perfectly ok to call me "Ma'am"!)
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