A few highlights from the report:
Since 2009, the wind industry has lost 10,000 jobs, even as the energy capacity of wind farms has almost doubled.
By contrast, the oil and gas industry have created 75,000 jobs since Mr. Obama took office.
"A $500 million job-training program has so far helped fewer than 20,000 people find work, far short of its goal." The program was so bad that "the Labor Department's inspector general recommended last fall that the agency should return the $327 million that remained unspent." They didn't.
And now, the department "remains far short of its goal of placing 80,000 workers into green jobs by 2013."
According to the Labor Department's own figures, the push for so-called " green jobs" has been an abysmal failure. "By the end of 2011, some 16,092 participants had found new work in a "green" field, according to the Labor Department - roughly one-fifth of its target."
The article also highlights the degree to which Obama's big jobs promises have fallen flat. For example, in 2008, Obama promised that "investing" $150 billion taxpayer dollars would create 5 million jobs over 10 years. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's past green jobs statements now read like punchlines:
"We'll put nearly half a million people to work building wind turbines and solar panels, constructing fuel-efficient cars and buildings, and developing the new energy technologies that will lead to new jobs," he said at a wind-turbine plant in Ohio the day before he took office. In December 2009, Vice President Joe Biden said the effort would create 722,000 green jobs.
None of this will come as a surprise to conservatives and Republicans. Indeed, the ream of failed green energy stories is endless. Still, it's encouraging to see a consensus among mainstream media begin to sprout--even if green jobs aren't.
It’s been a huge success with liberals because results don’t matter. Only your intentions do.
And fellow Democrats never have the instinct to think it through for themselves;
Senator Klobuchar (D-Mn) 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goTYOjh2q9M&feature=related
Klobuchar “As Van Jones has said, who is a guy who has written a book about the green collar economy, when you think about the green economy, don’t think about Buck Rogers; think about joe six-pack putting on a green hard hat. Think about Rosie the riveter manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines. This is President Obama’s plan — jobs, jobs, jobs.”
a complete failure
who’d a thunk it?
Obama is trying to manipulate both side of the supply/demand curve. He jacks up CAFE milage requirements, causing a demand for higher milage cars, and rescues GM, supplying the Volt. And he still fails.
What about the thousands of “green cowboys” hired to herd the thousands of herds of unicorns, raised on ranches out west purely for their unicorn farts? - Oh, and don’t forget the trillions of flapping butterfly wings in liberal dreams. La La La La La . . . .
All of the Obama jobs and stimulus actions, green or otherwise are money laundering schemes.
Nothing is free or green in this universe. To borrow an old slick willie campaign slogan, Its the physics, stupid.