The existence of China lays waste to the myth that green jobs are the future for America. They are for China, not for the US. Solyndra is a perfect example. We innovate here. They build there. For the same reason that manufacturing is a dying employment sector here,permanent green jobs in solar and wind which are manufacturing heavy will not take root here.The innovative Solyndra can testify to that. Once the technology is developed here, the permanent jobs will wind up in the China. In all fairness China should be funding Obama’s green jobs stimulus fantasy, not the US taxpayer.
That would not be true if the Chinese paid human-being wages to their workers.
Zero safety, zero benefits, grinding hours, draconian management, noodles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and hurry up about it!) -- and wages based on convict slave labor and Malthusian labor-market mathematics.
How does anyone on the face of the earth compete with that?
Creativity and quality control are the two factors the Chinese have not mastered yet. They may never get over their lack of creativity -- their school system and traditional Chinese educational methods are potent impediments -- but for now it's enough for them, to steal our ideas, flout our patents and copyrights, and just grind out the fruits of our inventiveness in their sweatshops.