Green jobs stimulus will cost $135,000 each - temporarily that is.

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President Obama’s announcement earlier today of an additional $2.3 billion in federal tax credits for creating approximately 17,000 subsidized temporary jobs in the green energy industry is drawing a less than enthusiastic response from Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research:

“Show me one other industry that requests and receives a nearly 30 percent taxpayer subsidy. That’s what the wind and solar industries require – at a minimum – to exist. All the president did today is throw more money at an unproven technology that is not economically viable in the marketplace. Unfortunately, the only winners in this latest taxpayer giveaway will be Wall Street money managers and corporate interests in the wind and solar industry.

“If the president really wants to create an environment that will foster economic growth and job creation, he need not look any further than the domestic oil, gas and coal industries. These three industries and energy sources built this nation. For the administration to continue to ignore this fact and to keep the vast resources that taxpayers own under lock and key at the Department of Interior is irresponsible and a disservice to the American people.

“The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), if opened for business, would create over 1 million high-wage jobs. It would reduce our dangerous dependence on hostile nations for their energy resources and spur economic growth across all 50 states. Development of these energy resources will create sustainable employment, not taxpayer dependent make-work jobs.”
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New Obama 'green jobs' to cost $135,295 each | Washington Examiner


A temporary, short term "solution" for a long term problem.
 
Yep, and still it's not a long term solution. There's an obvious and simple answer to all this.
 
kokonut said:
Man, read the article.

Again, an obvious answer.
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Yes, I am a man. Thank you for noticing.

I did read the article and the solutions, ideas, etc that were offered.

I am merely asking you a question.
 
....the clue is in the quote. Creating fake green jobs is obviously not the answer. Nor is it a viable solution over the short and medium term.
 
Temporary job is better than no job at all. A way to provide needs in the meantime. Perhaps that temporary job *MIGHT* provide a spawned job in the long run that eventually can become permanent?

Do you have any better solution?

Government IS NOT our provider, we are a provider of ourselves.
 
Raping our planet even further? Won't that tick Her off? :P
 
Cannot even guess what it might be? The answer is in the article quote at the top.

:)
 
LinuxGold said:
Temporary job is better than no job at all. A way to provide needs in the meantime. Perhaps that temporary job *MIGHT* provide a spawned job in the long run that eventually can become permanent?

Do you have any better solution?

Government IS NOT our provider, we are a provider of ourselves.
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And how is that change working out so far?

Sure, I have a better solution. And no, electric cars aren't the answer either. The article quote in my first post spells it out quite clearly what that answer is.
 
kokonut said:
Cannot even guess what it might be? The answer is in the article quote at the top.

:)
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I know what you are referring to. Still, it wouldn't hurt you to answer the question.

Besides, the answer isn't the answer.
 
several posts long and still no answer..... :hmm:
 
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