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Green jobs? Wot green jobs? (pt 242)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/new…The story is the same in Obama's America, as described in this brilliant piece by Walter Russell Mead (http://blogs.the-american-inter... HT Chris Horner. The examples he cites of Obama's green jobs quest – what he calls "feeding the masses on unicorn ribs" – almost beggar belief.
150 green jobs created in Southern Michigan, at a cost per job of $2 million.
$700,000 city and state investment in Green Vehicles in Salinas, CA, which has failed to produce a single car
Even the New York Times admits that Obama's Green Jobs aren't working.
Federal and state efforts to stimulate creation of green jobs have largely failed, government records show. Two years after it was awarded $186 million in federal stimulus money to weatherize drafty homes, California has spent only a little over half that sum and has so far created the equivalent of just 538 full-time jobs in the last quarter, according to the State Department of Community Services and Development.
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Job training programs intended for the clean economy have also failed to generate big numbers. The Economic Development Department in California reports that $59 million in state, federal and private money dedicated to green jobs training and apprenticeship has led to only 719 job placements — the equivalent of an $82,000 subsidy for each one.
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- Moran... do you think it is
possible that Big Energy and
the Republicans are helping
kill Green Energy?utopian - bad popfodders! they fail because teh majority of states are run by gop governors idiot.74LEO
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