Obama Adviser’s Green Manifesto: Americans Will Be Better Off When They Work, Produce and Earn Less

humanevents ^ | 8/3/10 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[Nachum]

When the Commerce Department reported Friday that the economy had grown at a humble 2.4 percent in the second quarter, even the liberal Washington Post suggested President Barack Obama’s policies were not leading to the sort of economic growth necessary to reduce unemployment, which has risen from 7.7 percent to 9.5 percent since Obama took office.

“The recovery is fading, and a troubling pattern is setting in: economic growth that is too slow to put Americans back to work,” said the first paragraph in the Post’s report on the new GDP numbers.

But in the worldview presented in an early environmentalist manifesto co-authored by Stanford University’s Paul and Anne Ehrlich and John P. Holdren—who is now director of Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy--sluggish growth would not be seen as the “troubling pattern” the Post perceives it to be. In fact, it might be viewed as a positive.

[chris_bdba]

Great idea! Yep starving people will make them happier! Who wrote this fiction?

[Buckeye McFrog]

if Paul Ehrlich was right then jobs would not be getting outsourced to India (since he predicted that they would all starve to death by 1985)

[DustyMoment]

“In the longer term, it may be that the solution to the employment problem will require a reduction in the amount of work done by each worker in order to create more jobs,” wrote Holdren and his co-authors.

Earth to morons -Lead by example. You cut your work week down, take the pay cut that comes with a 20-hour work week (and the loss of benefits that go with part-time work) and tell us how that works out for ya!!

I never cease to be amazed at the idiot ideas that looney leftists cook up for everyone . . . . but THEM!!!

[Timocrat]

Astonishing that Paul Ehrlich even has a job. He has been wrong so many times before. Whatever he says the opposite is probably the truth.

[fortunecookie]

Obama Adviser’s Green Manifesto: Americans Will Be Better Off When They Work, Produce and Earn Less

Will Obama's green advisers, Holdren and the Ehrlichs, lead by example?

[dalebert]

in other words when the USA looks like Haiti

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m with Abe! :)

[Ciexyz]

America is looking more like France every day!

[Ciexyz]

My Democratic relatives still have their hands out waiting for Obama to pay for the college education of their little darlings. For which they have not saved nuttin.

[ballplayer]

I can see all Of Hollywoods elites going for these ideas,Hey Bill Gates start dishing it out pal,time to give it up ,all you Millionare PUBLIC SERVANTS give it back and join our Obamacare plan,Jump in the waters fine.
You have to love these people ,First question to these paragons of Virtue,Sir When do you plan to turn over the deed to YOUR property ,your Bank accounts,your Automobile etc?