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Green Jobs Promises Dwindle As Policies Backfire
jackconrad Offline
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Once touted by the Obama administration as the wave of the future, green stimulus programs are rapidly falling out of favor with the administration as jobs fail to materialize, says the Heartland Institute.

About $92 billion in taxpayer funds -- more than 11 percent -- of President Obama's original $814 billion stimulus package, enacted in early 2009, went to an assortment of renewable energy projects.
But the jobs that were supposed to be created never materialized -- at least not in the United States.
According to the White House, last year's stimulus created 190,700 green jobs, but the administration's own Department of Energy puts the figure at only 82,000.
Additionally, as much as 80 percent of some green programs, including $2.3 billion in tax credits, went to foreign firms that employed workers primarily in China, South Korea and Spain.
Other problems have arisen.

In 2007 the newly elected Democratic Congress and the Bush administration enacted an energy bill which, among other things, provided for the phase-out of traditional incandescent light bulbs.
However, their replacement, the compact fluorescent light, can be manufactured much more cheaply in China.
As a result, 200 workers at a GE light bulb factory in Winchester, Virginia, recently lost their jobs.
"The public has caught on to the Obama administration's ruse concerning green jobs," says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. "Multiple analyses from Europe and the United States show that the expensive, taxpayer-subsidized push for green jobs... costs more jobs than it creates."

"In addition," Burnett explains, "many of the jobs created by the big green bailout are in China and not the United States."

Source: Bonner R. Cohen, "Green Jobs Promises Dwindle As Policies Backfire," Heartland Institute, October 4, 2010.
HockeyDad Offline
#2 Posted:
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I work for one of those foreign firms.

Scoreboard, bitches!
DadZilla3 Offline
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jackconrad wrote:

"The public has caught on to the Obama administration's ruse concerning green jobs," says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis."


...about two years too late, I'd say.
Stinkdyr Offline
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the sheeple will never catch on....


they will simply nod off into their bowl of Cheetos while watching Oprah.
HockeyDad Offline
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Stinkdyr wrote:
they will simply nod off into their bowl of Cheetos while watching Oprah.



Not if they had a job to go to. Well, that's not gonna happen. Nobody has a reason to create jobs.
DrafterX Offline
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We could creat jobs by growing more hemp.... somone will have to pick it..... or do we just eat off the plant..??
HockeyDad Offline
#7 Posted:
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Democrats wouldn't give up welfare to take hemp picking jobs. We would have to import illegals from Mexico.
DrafterX Offline
#8 Posted:
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sounds like a hassle... let's just pay them to grow it there......
RobertJ Offline
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Heck, if you can't stack your conscience high enough to think about American workers and families first you need to resort to it being illegal I guess.
Just like it's illegal to play the lottery in any other country while in America, shouldn't depend on what lottery you play. Anxious
Brewha Offline
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The Heartland Institute?
Time for a mushroom tea party . . . Laugh LOL Laugh LOL Laugh LOL Laugh

jackconrad Offline
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(")(") My pellets are green
donutboy2000 Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 11-20-2001
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47% of the population receives government aid.

Let's go for 60%!!!
Brewha Offline
#13 Posted:
Joined: 01-25-2010
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Aw, cough it up Daddy Warbucks – we’s knows ya gots da coin . . . .
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