Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama Announces Plan to Train 75,000 Solar Workers
nbcnews.com ^ | April 3, 2015

Posted on 04/03/2015 10:38:17 PM PDT by PROCON

The White House has announced a goal to train 75,000 workers in the solar industry by 2020, many of them veterans. "These are good-paying jobs that are helping folks enter the middle-class," President Barack Obama said on Friday at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The plan will expand on the Department of Energy SunShot Initiative's Solar Instructor Training Network currently running at more than 400 community colleges. The White House also announced the Solar Ready Vets program aimed at helping veterans transition into the solar industry. A joint program between the Department of Defense and the DOE, it's currently being launched at 10 military bases across the country, including Hill Air Force Base and Camp Pendleton in California.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; globalwarming; obama; solarenergy; veterans
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121 next last
To: PROCON

More corporate welfare and more wasted billions


41 posted on 04/03/2015 11:47:21 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crim

lol


42 posted on 04/03/2015 11:48:24 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: hosepipe

The Three Stooges were patriots and shouldn’t be so besmirched.

The soetoro crew are foreign agents or just small “s” stooges.


43 posted on 04/03/2015 11:49:48 PM PDT by onedoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Has solar even cracked 1% of US electric generation yet.

After 40+ years...

Can’t be competitive economically unless you have cheap and abundant energy.

Facepalm indeed. Mega Facepalm.


44 posted on 04/03/2015 11:49:58 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: CitizenUSA

Definitely his first real productive work too


45 posted on 04/03/2015 11:52:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Foolish people ... have eyes and see not)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2; All

Going up on roofs in summer for anything can be brutal, especially applying hot tar on flat roofs.


46 posted on 04/04/2015 12:24:36 AM PDT by gleeaikin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
Barky’s just making noise. As the economy is showing signs of decline, he's grasping at something to show he cares. this is pure nonsense and he knows it
47 posted on 04/04/2015 2:27:27 AM PDT by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CitizenUSA

“That’s why “marriage equality” suddenly showed up about 2-3 years ago. “Equality” is selling so much better than gay marriage did. Infanticide? No, that’s pro-choice. Tax the rich? No. That’s paying a fair share.”

And the word “investment” is used in place of government spending.

“We need to invest in the infrastructure!”
“We need to invest in college students”
“We need to invest in the middle class!”


48 posted on 04/04/2015 2:40:04 AM PDT by lowbridge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Indeed.


49 posted on 04/04/2015 2:51:52 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
The White House has announced a goal to train 75,000 workers in the solar industry by 2020

2020, eh?

So the Obama White HousePolitlburo is now decreeing its five-year centralized economy plans.

How very Soviet of them.

50 posted on 04/04/2015 2:53:11 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Great. Now we can expect a hundred times more calls from telemarketers selling solar panels.


51 posted on 04/04/2015 3:01:32 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

“folks”

ya’ll want to enter the middle class, right? just like stasha and malaria obama


52 posted on 04/04/2015 3:03:13 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Paid by whom with whose money ?


53 posted on 04/04/2015 3:08:08 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CitizenUSA

Obama’s legacy will be a list of intangibles; as far as any accomplishments that can be verified (jobs, standard of living, urban quality of life, healthcare, etc.) he is a proven failure. Instead we’ll learn how he single-handedly changed Americans’ hearts about “gay equality”, provided health insurance (NOT HEALTH CARE) to all Americans, saved the environment, blah blah blah).

He is truly the president of lowered expectations.


54 posted on 04/04/2015 3:37:42 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: LMAO

See # 54; a fake president with a list of fake accomplishments...


55 posted on 04/04/2015 3:39:06 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: Cementjungle
The real problem is America using up more than our fair share of the Sun.
Using to much causes Man-made Warming and Women and Children will starve.
56 posted on 04/04/2015 3:43:44 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

A few years ago, I used to drive past a BP solar panel plant on the way home from work. I still drive past the same place sometimes, but the plant is gone. I guess it just wasn’t profitable.


57 posted on 04/04/2015 3:44:33 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
"The White House has announced a goal to train 75,000 workers in the solar industry by 2020, many of them veterans. "These are good-paying jobs that are helping folks enter the middle-class,""

Sounds elitist. I don't think the White House understands the demographics of their own military.

-->"Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers"

Compared to the average Obama voter, vets were pretty much middle class and upper class -- until the White House fired them.


58 posted on 04/04/2015 3:48:26 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Sooo, they stand around with solar cells in their hands and turn to keep them pointed toward the sun? GS 12 job?


59 posted on 04/04/2015 3:58:44 AM PDT by Vinnie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Has he no shame?


60 posted on 04/04/2015 4:00:05 AM PDT by expatguy (Donate to "An American Expat in SE Asia")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson