Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/04/2011 7:40:39 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
A close second to Detroit/Michigan.
How many assistant vice administrator’s assistant secretaries are being paid by this $2 million?
If we took all the money spent on so called “green jobs” since Soetoro was imposed on the country, we could give every taxpayer a tax holiday. Think of how much that would stimulate the economy.
With its very moderate climate, Seattle is the last city that ought to get this grant. Insulating Buffalo or insulating Phoenix makes some sense in terms of energy savings.
But gosh, gotta keep those bureaucrats employed.
Info - The report is a couple of weeks old but still very informative: Seems that people get “bored” with multimillion dollar federal programs, until they see the actual results as “3 houses and 14 jobs”
Seattle is like the Palestinian authority where the main industry is being a government paid bureaucrat.
Seattle opened up BIKE trails down town, using up whole lanes.
It is Obama Heaven and I bet after his landslide defeat in 2012, Obama will move to Seattle. He would be right at home.
just imagine if cap and trade had of passed and every other dumb green idea,wow, all the 10’s of billions + that would be wasted
Actually, weatherization isn’t a bad idea, although as noted Seattle is not the best place to do it.
There’s no reason why they couldn’t have done numerous houses, schools, public buildings, and the like by now. If they haven’t, it’s because the program is being run by total incompetents.
Which isn’t really a surprise. Idiots who want to sit around and talk, talk, talk, instead of just going ahead and doing it. And, of course, it has to be directed toward designated minorities, rather than to the houses where it will do the most good. That could include minorities, but the first consideration should be the houses, not the color of the owners’ skin.
Greenwich said the energy retrofit market has turned out to be extremely complicated, with required hammering out of job standards, hiring practices, wages and how best to measure energy benefits.
So, almost 2 years into the program ...
And they haven't figured out how much insulation to throw into a ceiling.
How much to pay people.
How to measure how much energy is saved. (Hint: Have they tried comparing the electric and gas bills before and after? )
Only thing green about these scams is all the government cash that flows around them.
I wish I’d known about this program - I would’ve personally weatherized twice as many homes for half the cost (yeah, I’d settle for $10 million) , and shoot, I’d even fly out to Seattle at my own expense to do it!
Thanks very much for posting. DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
The link you provided does not go to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website.
“Greenwich said the energy retrofit market has turned out to be extremely complicated, with required hammering out of job standards, hiring practices, wages and how best to measure energy benefits.”
LOL.
I’ll bet none of the bureaucrats hired to run this program have ever managed or owned a business.
Do a little math.
That says when everything is eventually up and running it will take 10 to 20 workers a whole month to do a single house.
Government efficiency at it's finest.
It is Seattle, perhaps they just schedule in a 50 minute coffee break each hour...:^)
Or perhaps it's one worker and 19 paid supervisors and community activists...
Sounds like it’s a crapshoot over who gets insulation, but a good guess is whoever is willing to campaign for Barry gets a million dollar insulation job for their attic. Best quote in the article is:
“’A triple win,’ is how Biden characterized it.”
The problem is they don’t have enough hands in the pot. They need more organizations interested in social justice and financial equality to get it off the ground. /s
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