"The green jobs subsidy story gets more embarrassing by the day. Three years ago President Obama promised that by the end of the decade America would have five million green jobs, but so far some $90 billion in government spending has delivered very few. A new report by the Labor Department's Office of Inspector General examined a $500 million grant under the stimulus program to the Employment and Training Administration to 'train and prepare individuals for careers in "green jobs."' So far about $162.8 million has been spent. The program was supposed to train 125,000 workers, but only 53,000 have been 'trained' so far, only 8,035 have found jobs, and only 1,033 were still in the job after six months. Overall, 'only 10% of participants entered employment.' In the understatement of the year, the IG says the program failed to 'assist those most impacted by the recession.' The jobs record is even more dismal when you consider that many of the jobs classified as green aren't even new jobs, much less green, according to a report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. They include positions that have been 'relabeled as green jobs by the [Bureau of Labor Statistics].' This means that bus drivers, Environmental Protection Agency regulators, university professors teaching ecology, and even the Washington lobbyists who secure energy loan guarantees count as green employees for the purposes of government counting. The Oversight Committee finds that even a charitable assessment of the Labor program puts the cost of each green job at $157,000. The silver lining is that the IG found that as of 'June 30, 2011, $327.3 million remained unexpended' from the Labor program's appropriation. The IG urges that all funds 'determined not to be needed should be recouped as soon as practicable and to the extent permitted by law.' That ought to be the deficit supercommittee's first $327 million in savings." --The Wall Street Journal It is getting damn near impossible to continue to carry water for the epic failures of the Obama presidency, yet I am confident there are koolaid drinkers here who will chime in their blind support for this miserable excuse for a president. Combine this with the Solyndra, Fast and Furious illegal gun running, etc. and I have to expect that anyone still suporting Obama is brain damaged.
I'll settle for a 500k grant so I can fail at a green start up...where do I apply? ..on another note...where do I get a bus ticket to Canada?
I was looking at Canada's immigration policy its tough, you have to have a family member there, a proven job, or political asylum.
I'm pretty sure that Canada's government, er uh, the Harper government is run by they same euro-oligarch bankers that own the US. These policies will be generally the same globally.
oh how wrong you are, you both should really get your facts straight before posting such dribble... obama voters (hell, most voters) never had brains to start with...
Epic comment! That is hilarious...accurate AND hilarious. No, maybe sad but true. I am confused. Maybe it is all rolled into one.
Whether you are serious or not (haven't been around here long enough to know), why is it that anytime someone is against Obama they are racist? That is like the only defense there is for the man. But, I guess when everything you utter is bullshit, the racism defense is all there is.
Green jobs? That's a joke, green and white collar jobs don't produce revenue, not the big kind anyway. raw resources such as mining, dirty energy, and agriculture do, in a huge way.
Fuck that im moving to the philippines, hiring a fucking body guard, and living in peace when everything goes to shit. Thank goodness the US doesnt have military involvement there anymore.
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