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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For your Mark Steyn ping list.
Just, wow! Who’d have thought the green jobs program would be a failure?
Just, wow! Who’d have thought the green jobs program would be a failure?
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I really can’t think of the last time I disagreed with Mark Stein. Which of course is proof of his genius.
You seem to disagree with him on the spelling of his surname. ;-)
Heheh...
Are you sure this is a Steyn piece? It doesn’t really sound like his writing, and I can’t find an attribution on the IBD website.
“Green”, in and of itself won’t get us there. My experience has been that “green” usually costs more and doesn’t work as well.
There are some exceptions, LED’s, d-limonene and powder-coating for instance. But these are sorted out by a free market, as a rule and not government mandate or subsidy.
Stein, Stien, Styne, steinmynlayacka Oh LaYADEEE
I’m so confused.
D’oh , people are sooo green
Now all I got left is HOPE and CHANGE Hoping for some spare Change.
It’s to be expected with a “green horn” for pResident.
green prez spends lots of green for few green jobs
You may be right. I re-read it, and couldn’t find ANY author. I picked this up from a facebook friend, and it ran there with the same publicity photo that runs with Mark Steyn’s byline. Mods, can you please delete Mark Steyn’s name from the title and author line?
JLS, please don’t add this to your ping list.
Does anyone think that the green front money will be repaid?
bump
Fed up with Obama and Congress? SO AM I!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkyRZoHlTM
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The liberals can’t argue the points, and the conservatives don’t need to add anything to it.
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