Posted on 10/21/2010 5:15:46 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated.
Out of 70 major wind farms that received the $4.4 billion in federal energy grants through the stimulus program, public records show that 11, which received a total of $600 million, erected their wind towers during the Bush administration. And a total of 19 wind farms, which received $1.3 billion, were built before any of the stimulus money was distributed. ( See a list of the projects here.)
Yet all the jobs at these wind farms are counted in the administration's figures for jobs created by the stimulus.
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What’s unusual about this story isn’t the fact that Obama’s taking credit for Bush’s successes (happened with Iraq, etc.)....but that MSNBC is reporting it was Bush’s success and Obama is falsely taking credit.
I’m sure many of us are doing a double-take when looking at the source.
Sure, 'temporarily' parking the funds in an off-shore account.
My question is this. How did 70 wind farms create 50,000 jobs? Did I incorrectly read the article? That’s 714 people working at each wind farm. What do they all do there?
I’ve read several times that a wind turbine will not produce enough electricity during it’s serviceable life to offset the carbon footprint of it’s manufacture, installation and maintenance.
Seems common sense is the only thing that ever has been successfully flushed down a 1.5GPF toilet.
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