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The Spectacle Blog
Just when the discussion in Washington turns inescapably to reckless spending of the sort that earned Spain the title ‘The Next Greece’, President Obama goes to Pennsylvania today for an ‘energy town hall’ to promote policies he used to regularly admit he borrowed from Spain’s socialists. Yet these are policies Spain, Germany and the rest of his models are actually sprinting away from.
Specifically, the president will strike the ‘green jobs’ pose again at a plant owned by Spanish windmill producer Gamesa, rather incredibly reprising his cheerleading for this subsidy-dependent industry - all of whose manufacturing jobs will flee when the subsidies run out. That is, they are not - wait for it - ‘sustainable’.
Remember, in Spain, it cost the taxpayer $750,000 per ‘green job’, 9 of 10 of which were temporary. Obama’s ‘stimulus’ green jobs, per his own Council on Economic Advisors, came in at $474,000 each. Those jobs would not have existed without the wealth transfer, and disappear when the wealth transfer ends. And, at that rate, they have to end sooner rather than later. You don’t make it up in volume..
So, amid the discussion in Washington among the few serious people left turning to a budget and deficit reduction, this is what Obama pushes. We’re in trouble, folks.
And, no, for those who see the prospect of getting one of them high-paying windmill jobs as a silver lining, no.
From the report, “Yellow Light on Green Jobs: A Report by the Senate Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy”, Spring 2009:
“Gamesa pays its production workers as low as $13 per hour or up to 28% less than the average national manufacturing wage.” p. 23
Whatever this is, it isn’t about what he says it’s about. Like some guy named Alinsky used to tell his acolytes, when pushing their schemes, the issue isn’t really the issue.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 4.6.11 @ 8:18AM
Sadly, our President wouldn't recognize Truth, if it bit him in the butt.
He does recognize lies though. He reads them right off his teleprompter.
Mimi| 4.6.11 @ 8:44AM
" WE WILL TRANSFORM THIS NATION" ..... So it was said in 2008. They have destroyed, laid it bare.....Everything they do makes things worse..... never did a recession last this long...All they have done should should make them ashamed....BUT they have NO SHAME. Today their stuck in an "Old News " world.
I'm convinced either they have no "LUCK", providence has abandoned them OR...... OR..... OR They destroy knowingly to build it up into their idea of UTOPIA. Someone needs to answer this QUESTION and "IF" , the latter is true, DO SOMETHING about it!!!!!
FastJohnny| 4.6.11 @ 9:07AM
Mimi, the utopia they seek is called dystopia. Undue repression for what they see as the common good.
grant1863| 4.6.11 @ 9:14AM
Ken(Old Texican)
Are they lies if THE ONE believes them? He's lived in a bubble his whole life. He also wouldn't know a real job if it bit him on the rear.
uncle curmudgeon| 4.6.11 @ 9:44AM
Hey, Grant
I think a real job finally did (bite him in the rear). But we're the ones with the sore butts.
Roscoe| 4.7.11 @ 1:28PM
I watched a bit of the video from this event, to see for myself whether the empty suit really did laugh about the guy's earnest question about the cost of gasoline. (He did laugh, and mocked the guy.) But in his answer, there was another telling part. According to the empty suit's logic; since A) US presently consumes 25% of world oil, and since B) US only has 2-3% of world's proven oil reserves, then it follows that C) US can't drill enough oil domestically to provide for itself currently. Now this guy is - they tell us - a Harvard-trained lawyer. If you've looked at the LSAT, it's all about logic. So I deduce that either, a) he's lying about what he's saying on the stump, or, b) he believes what he's saying, & he's just incapable of reasoning at about a 5th-grade level logic, and we've got affirmative action to thank for this idiot.