“Green jobs” means jobs for salespeople selling solar panels made in whatever country has the absolute least environmental regulations.
The whole “green economy” agenda is nothing more than a scam designed to shut down any remaining western industries so that all the “pollution” can be moved to the filthiest countries on earth. This achieves: the appearance of cleanliness, taxes for redistribution to pet constituencies, increased dependence on government for transfer payments, more political donations to secure the arbitrary ‘exemptions’ needed for any business to survive), and warm fuzzy feelings for liberals.
In short, it is the way to get from here to a corrupt command economy.
And part of the sales pitch is about the tax credits the buyer can get from the federal government (paid for by the USA taxpayer, yay team!)
How 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!