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.
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.
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.
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
Before the city got the $20 million, some local agencies, including Got Green, had received funds in a government push to train workers in weatherization.
I’m sure local contractors were already trained in “weatherization & insulation”.
I'm just wondering.
Here's something I would recommend. We do this down here in my little part of Florida, and I recomend that FReepers, TEA Partiers, 9-12ers and Constitutional Conservatives everywhere do this.
First, do a bit of research. Do you city council members and mayor have an oath of office? Does it include language similar to "I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States and of the State of ...?" I pasted that directly from the Florida oath of office for all elected officials, by the way.
I suspect that your officials in Seattle, Washington have to take a similar oath. If they do, get some FRiends together, take some pocket constitutions with you, and ask your City Council and Mayor how accepting this "Federal Grant" squares with their oath of office. Ask them to point out specifically where within the enumerated powers in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Consittution do they believe that the United States Congress has the authority to tax the people of the states of Florida and North Dakota to pay for "weatherizing" private homes in Seattle.
Show up at all your City Council meetings, School Board meetings and County Commission meetings and be prepared to ask this question of your elected representatives often. Make them aware that they have voters in their city, county, and district who actually thinks the United States Constitution means something, and they expect even local officials to hold Congress to stay within the limits of the enumerated powers laid out in the Constitution.