Community | October 04, 2011 | 4 comments

Green Jobs Numbers Disappointing

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/green-jobs-numbers-disappointing_n_992996.html

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"A $500 million Labor Department program designed to train workers for green jobs has come up far short of its goals, with only 10 percent of participants finding work so far, the agency's assistant inspector general has found."

This article is flying around the internet and being republished in papers all around the country. It was written by SAM HANANEL, but there are few details, and no investigation into the business end of the jobs program. Where is the analysis of corporations creating the jobs that the government is providing the trained workers for? Why are corporations not taking advantage of trained people and investing in the future? How is it that we are so behind other countries in making green jobs happen?

Germany gets 20% of their energy from renewable solar power. The Netherlands is closing in on 20% renewable power from wind generation. Semens has become the worlds leader in solar technology, while GE is playing catch-up to the Netherlands in designing and building wind generators.

The press just likes to paint a biased picture that Obama's programs don't work. They do, it is just that corporations are not doing their part in creating jobs, or they are swindling money from the government and investors (since life is all about greed).

The AP used to be a good news source, providing analysis with their reports. Now it seems that they are becoming more and more like USA Today: info-graghs in words.
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4 comments // Green Jobs Numbers Disappointing

  • CreditFigaro
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      CreditFigaro  

    • Well? Wait, we trained people for jobs we were supposed to provide for them, then didn't provide the jobs so they didn't get placed?

      OK? It's not a failure of the program, it's the failure of the government to invest in clean energy.

      I'm sure those workers are adequately trained to run a green economy.

      Oh, and it isn't the private sector's fault. The private sector is like an angry child who wants its way, and government is the only adult in the room. It was the governments job to set up rules for the private sector to follow. You can't blame the child for doing B when you ask for A and don't provide the resources to accomplish A.

    • 1 year ago
  • kvb1
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      kvb1  
    • CreditFigaro:

      First off, it is the RIPublicans and the Tea Baggers that claim that the capitalist free market will always do the right thing. The old adage it takes money to make money should hold here as well. Yet with more cash in reserve than the entire US debt, I find it hard to take that the government gets blamed for not creating jobs, when the RIGHT wants the government out of our lives. Corporations should be creating jobs, American jobs, not shipping them overseas. Corporations have created the problem in this country by destroying the very base of the economy. Without jobs, people can not by the goods and services that companies provide.

      The government cannot do it all by itself. Corporations have to do their part as well. But they seem to be refusing by not investing their capital, and not loaning money to small business. If you want the government to provide the trained workers and to create the jobs, I think you are looking for a communist solution. A well regulated capitalist system will work fine, if the right regulations are in place and enforced, and if the tax system is structured fairly.

    • 1 year ago
  • thedirtman
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      thedirtman  

    • As long as Obama and congress have to bow to the oil cartel and the defense contracting moguls there will be no sensible self-management in America.

    • 1 year ago
  • tverdell
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      tverdell  

    • Obama blew it on the new cleAn air regulations.
      And on the yetnto come tar sands decision.

      These two alone would have been a boom to the green industry and new jobs at all levels.

      Sigh

    • 1 year ago

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