Open Thread: White House Admits There Are Few Actual ‘Green’ Jobs
Today's starter topic: It's not often that you see an Obama Administration official admit to making a mistake, which is why stimulus creator Jared Bernstein's remarks on so-called "green" jobs are worth preserving. According to Bernstein, the Administration didn't realize before the stimulus money was being allocated that operating solar or wind plants doesn't really employ a large number of people. In other words, the promised green jobs turned out not to really exist.
Full quote from Bernstein is below:
BERNSTEIN: I was very active in the implementation of the Recovery Act, and one thing we found about clean energy was that you build a solar plant, you're gonna hire a lot of people. You run a solar plant, it doesn't take a ton of people to run some of these plants. Some of these firms don't employ as many people as you might hope.
Video below courtesy of the Rush Limbaugh Show:
On his program yesterday, Limbaugh interpreted Bernstein's remarks as meaning that the jobs haven't materialized due to the large number of bankruptcies of such politically well-connected "green" companies, however, it's actually worse than that.
Even if the companies don't go bankrupt, Bernstein has admitted that they don't employ that many people once operational. That's a pretty stunning admission. And one would think that if anyone at the White House had bothered to do some adequate research before doling out the billions, they would have realized that solar power plants have consistently employed small numbers of employees over their entire history. Why would President Obama have to spend billions of dollars to figure out such a basic concept?
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Are the chances really that
Submitted by bretzysdude on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:03am.
Are the chances really that strong for Texas to go winner-take-all?
*crosses fingers*
The comrade Dear Ruler doesn't give a flying...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:05am.
...fornication about 'green' jobs, or any other kind of jobs, for that matter, as creating jobs was not what the "stimulus" was about.
All Obama was after was a slush fund to enable him to get reelected so he can finish his task of screwing this country into the ground once and for all.
That is all his "presidency" has been about from Day One.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
'There are people wearing
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:27pm.
'There are people wearing frowns who'll screw you UP, but they would rather screw you DOWN'!!!! And Boy Baraka will do it with that stupid phony-ass smile on his dumb mug.
For some, not such a good Friday.
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:06am.
Prayers.
Definately
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:56am.
Definately
Open thread
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:07am.
Didn't Jay Carney say the other day, while flying cover for Obama's attack on the SC, that Obama is a 'law Professor' and is that not a falsehood?
Yes he did, audaciously enough
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:09am.
And that he went so far to say that he's too smart for us and we didn't understand him.
-Jon
Jay Sekulow was on Fox this
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:58am.
Jay Sekulow was on Fox this AM. He called Holder's letter, this is my words, BS. Jay wouldn't say something like that.
I think we've had such a warm winter
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:10am.
because all of these solar panels are drawing heat to the earth. So I've changed my tune on AWG: It's the green's fault.
The comrade Dear Ruler is rapidly arming the federal government
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:15am.
...at just about all levels.
The question is, what is he up to?
And once again I will ask, just where the Hell are the repubs?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
And....
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:17am.
People still think we're going to have elections come November? Really? This government is preparing for the event that the bogus potus won't get re-elected and they are getting ready to do something, anything to seal deal.
-Jon
Jon and Dave, do ya think ya
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:57pm.
Jon and Dave, do ya think ya might be a bit paranoid? I will grant ya the thought has often crossed my mind but I still find it hard to believe it will come to pass. The only scenario I see is a false flag and martial law, otherwise it wont happen.
I wish, but....
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 4:18pm.
I seriously don't believe it, especially when these things keep happening like we fear it. As to this government agency, it's the department of agriculture. Why would they need to be armed like this? As well as the IRS with the shotguns and so forth? That is a lot of ammo, and I mean a LOT.
I wish I could agree with you that it couldn't come to pass, but look at the past 3.5 years and all the things, the unconstitutional acts he's committed, and then of course this week wherethe bogus potus threatened the SCOTUS(I don't see how else to take it, otherwise, he should have just kept his trap shut), these are the acts of a dictator. There's no other way to look at it.
Each month we get closer to the election, and each month he gets bolder and bolder with a spineless Congress to watch from the sidelines and those departments are doing his bidding with very little oversight from Issa who someone apparently cut hit balls off and he's as docile as can be compared to how he was in the beginning when he started doing his hearings.
I wish it were just paranoia. I keep thinking about history repeating itself instead.
-Jon
What's new?
Submitted by bmac32 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:19am.
We have an administration full of people that have never been in any type of business. We have tax cheats, liars, thieves, and pay backs but few REAL jobs with tons of money wasted. Green may be in the future but it will come from private not the government.
Debbie Shultz of the
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:50am.
Debbie Shultz of the Wasserman crime family is smacked down on LA radio.
She is entitled to her opnion but not her facts. I have to laugh at her everytime she opens her mouth. She is so predictable.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=50595
I don't know who is hosting Glenn Beck's radio show today but the brought up the fact that Little Debs was a main cheerleader for the plug to be pulled on Terry Shivao. So much for the war on women.
My latest letter to the editor
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:48am.
http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/bill-105553-obamacare-code.html
One of our resident lefties tries to tell me that Sebilius is not writting the code. That is pure BS. It was her that wrote the code for contraseptions,. Sebilius never met a pregnant woman she didn't want to cary to have an abortion.
It is a rainy, cool and nasty
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:55am.
It is a rainy, cool and nasty day here in eastern NC. I hope this weahter has not plagued Augusta. It would be more like a British Open.
Did anyone see O's speech this a.m.?
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:01pm.
The one about "women's issues"?
I swear, it may be just me, because I've watched so many of his little faux pas (pi? plural, LOL)....but his "tell" that something he thinks is cute and that the audience will like is just jumping off the screen to me.
He did it this morning, too. He kind of tilts his head, and gives his fake shy smile (Di style, head down, eyes up)....and then he delivers his line(s). While he's delivering the line(s), he gets a self-satisfied little smirk going, that he just can't control. Today the first tell was "there are a majority of women in this country"....Followed by "there are a majority of women in my household" (Smirk gets started)...."including my mother-in-law" (Smirk Gets Bigger)..."and I NEVER forget my mother-in-law". Then the grins like he just realized he said something funny. Oh yeah, the plants in the audience then react!
I first saw this when he did his little Al Green imitation, and I blogged about it. Check it out again, and then watch for it as you see him as he
campaignstalks about anything & everything. If you don't see it the first time as you watch that video, watch it again with the sound off (I do this often with both Obamas....for the obvious reason!).Once you see it clearly, the tell will jump out at you every single time. Then you can explain it to the liberals of your aquaintance....show them exactly how phony Obama is, our Emperor with No Clothes.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
B:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:14pm.
The stage was strewn with panties, and half the audience had fainted before he even walked on.
The tell is there in that clip, as well, SickO
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:44pm.
I've kind of gotten to watch The Won like the e-trade baby. Only the baby is a better actor.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Jeez, what a self-absorbed,
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:33pm.
Jeez, what a self-absorbed, tedious, phony-ass DOPE!!!! The audacity of dope!!! And the guy can't get though ONE sentence without ooooohing or ahhhhhing or stuttering or stalling...................this guy makes me sick - and that doesn't even take into consideration about what he's doing to our country.
You're a better woman than I Blonde.
Submitted by dyardley on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:18pm.
I seriously cannot watch Obama. I had a bad feeling (woman's instinct) the very first time I listened to him. My red alerts were screaming 'fake' and haven't stopped. I really hate his ideology and where he wants to take our country and most of all our culture. I don't trust anything he says and have come to the point where I can't stand the sound of his voice. He is against, or has tried to destroy everything I hold dear. I pray often for his conversion and against the success of his policies. I'm glad NB and you watch and report, because I really don't want to. My hats off to you.
Why thank you, D.
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:46pm.
I am just immune to the outrage any more, after coming up with 120 gaffes! It's actually been quite therapeutic.
As I said, try watching him with the sound off....it's even easier to find the little rehearsed moments of spontaneity...if you don't have to listen to him drone.
Make a game out of it, trust me, you'll feel better. Then spread the word. If you can open one closed mind to his fauxniness.....we win!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I couldn't watch or listen to
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:41pm.
I couldn't watch or listen to der Schlickmeister either, once I figured out what a low-life pathalogical liar he was - but he was around for so long that I forced myself to pay attention to him once in a while.
I haven't been able to do that with Boy Baraka, for a number of reasons. We allready know what a phony he is - even compared to Clinton. The guy's whole life has been a LIE, so he is basically a living LIE. But I can't stand his affected style of speaking - I still can't figure out how he came to where he is with that stupid small-town midwestern radio-host accent, except for when he starts tryin' to speak to the 'folks', or his homies back in the ghetto, where he NEVER has been in his entire life.
And his arrogance and condescension, which ARE a part of his DNA, are enough to make me want to kick my TV, and I can't do that - because I just bought a new one!!!
Plus, in reality - I find the guy to be extremely boring and tedious, and torture to listen to.............I have yet to figure out what all the hullabaloo is or was about this drone being some kind of world-class orater. Hell, he can't string together a coherent paragraph if it isn't written for him.
Inalienable right to..., dry cleaning
Submitted by CarlosS on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:25pm.
Is this where he asserted women's inalienable right to affordable dry cleaning?
Exactly, Carlos
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:42pm.
I didn't watch him THAT far, I was busy rewinding (we have DISH) to show my mother about his "tell".
If an 89 year old can see it, anyone can!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
That is beyond political pandering
Submitted by CarlosS on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:48pm.
My guess is that NoBlama has lost is Soros' funded handlers and is trying to wing it along with his Chicago thug cronies, that's why he's been in such a tail-spin the last couple of weeks. Every time he talks anywhere the gaffe machine goes nuts
You may be correct
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:08pm.
IIRC, around March 21st I only had 108 gaffes. It's been a banner couple of weeks.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I refuse to listen to
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:47pm.
I refuse to listen to anything he has to say. How do you stomach.
Was this the speech you refered to?
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:54pm.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/06/obama-defends-federal-funding-for-pla...
You know,
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:03pm.
I'm literally at a loss for words. Shocking.
You DO know where this is BK?
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 12:09pm.
Right here in Deep Dark Blue Broward County, Florida
Sawgrass is a development way out west (referred to as East Naples by us natives)....that was built on the very edge of the Glades. It's where the nOObs from "up north" land, as well as the wannabes. So of course their sensibilities were outraged when the photographer put a black smiley on the black child's head.
Maybe the guy should have used a puppy or something.
Liberal outrage rules the day, huh?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Romney Position
Submitted by djaymick on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:39pm.
This is exactly where Romney needs to hit the President. During the whole "green energy debate" most conservative pointed to the data supplied by Spain and their failures on green jobs. The report informs people that 2 jobs are destroyed for every temporary job created. It also can work with the ObamaCare argument, where he will say he was following a GOP idea. But, when the facts are presented and you still plan to go that same path, it shows you the type of idiot or ideologue this President is.
Romney needs to take ownership of RomneyCare, but point out that he never expected the highest insurance premiums in the nation and rationing that happens every year in Massachusetts. He should tell people if he was still governor, he would try to abolish it. However, just because it was passed by a GOP governor doesn't make the facts go away.
Pastor Timmy Tebow at Easter
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:53pm.
How cool is that?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Good evening Blonde
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:05pm.
Thanks. The comments expose the idiots that elected the POS residing in the white house.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
About half, Coco
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:24pm.
I down arrowed all the idiots, and up arrowed the good guys.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Shame on Bobby Petrino
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:28pm.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=AmQlKMc63Jhpa5vsIljgSYQc...
Razorback fans would forgive this if he wins the SEC.
Augusta: Female fires shots.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:46pm.
Authorities say incident possibly related to woman being denied golf club membership for 17th time.
Other causes being investigated are the throwing of a ketchup packet; general jive talking; or an improperly cooked waffle.
President Obama is expected to make a statement shortly.
Phil Mickelson climbs back to even par
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:54pm.
That puts him within 6 shots of the leaders and he still has a chance to catch them by Sunday.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
And Freddy Couples is now in a three-way tie for the lead
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:22pm.
Wouldn't that be something.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Freddie at the top at -5
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:44pm.
I don't know if that will hold up for today because conditions are improving. Still, heck of round for a 52 year old.
I swear, if Tiger Woods was to pick his nose and eat it...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 4:50pm.
...they would show it on TV.
He is six shots off the lead, is playing like crap, and they still can't take a camera off of him.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
The Buffett Rule
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:16pm.
in a chart.
What a shame
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 6:28pm.
It appears that Tom Watson won't make the cut at Augusta. He would be an inspiration to all us dudes over 60.
Uncle Ted, the Motor City
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 6:52pm.
Uncle Ted, the Motor City Madman. takes on Piers Morgan on Trayvon Martin. When will Morgan learn he is outgunned by Ted Nugent?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-nugent-responds-to-piers-morgan-inter...
Well, he's English,
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 7:19pm.
Well, he's English, Rick.................so ol' Long Walk/Short Piers probably doesn't mind having his pathetic British Bum spanked hard by the Motor City Madman.
Expat anyone?
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:11pm.
Expat anyone?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:54pm.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLONDE!!!!!!!!!!
Here is to another 6 years at NewsBusters!!!!!!!!!
BLONDE'S 39????? WOW!!! Hey,
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 1:29am.
BLONDE'S 39????? WOW!!! Hey, Blonde - I have a Hawaiian flower lei to give you.............you can get 'lei-ed'!!!!!
Happy Birthday Blonde!!!!!!!!
Submitted by dyardley on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:11pm.
I had one last month, the 2nd anniversary of my 33rd birthday. Hope you had a great day.
Wo wo wo wo wo, Ms. Luvly
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 1:30am.
Wo wo wo wo wo, Ms. Luvly Yardley!!! Wait just a gul-darn minute!!! I'm having trouble with the 'math'..................you're on the '2nd anniversary of your 33rd birthday'???? Is there some figure that it works out to be??? Can I use that equation for myself??? They way I compute it...............you're either 35, or....................................well, yeah, you're 35!!!! Hahahahahhaa!!!
Somehow, that doesn't work out the same way for me.......................
Hey Killa,
Submitted by dyardley on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 9:36pm.
I like your number just fine, lots better than mine. Yes my children, I am 66 (33 x 2.) Of course, I only look 35....just a little gray around the edges.
Ms Yardley*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 10:27pm.
It seems that 33x2 yrs ago was a great year. Though you are 2 mos older than me., I am all gray.
It must be all that south La sunshine....;-)