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Posted on 08/19/2011 6:25:19 PM PDT by passionfruit
Industrial Policy: The fact that President Obama's "green jobs" campaign has been an enormously expensive failure is now so glaringly obvious even the New York Times can't ignore it any longer.
In a surprisingly candid article headlined "Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises," the Times' Aaron Glantz reports that "federal and state efforts to stimulate creation of green jobs have largely failed, government records show," and that Obama's goal of 5 million new green jobs in 10 years is a "pipe dream."
Glantz notes, for example, that Obama's much-heralded weatherization program "never caught on."
California still has spent only about half its $186 million in federal weatherization funds, creating a grand total of 538 full-time jobs. He also points to the $59 million spent in California on green job training that resulted in just 719 placements.
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Great vid. Pass it around.
It’s to be UNexpected with a “green horn” for pResident.
fixed it for you.
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Thank you.
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The only element missing from this title is “and the taxpayers get the red azz for being forced to subsidize this crap.”
It should be called ‘green jobs red politics’ because ‘green’ means socialism.
What’s green on the outside and red on the inside?
The Obama administration.
Bada-Bing!
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