According to a report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Obama spent $9 BILLION of “green jobs” stimulus money to create a whopping total of 910 jobs.
Remember back when a “job” was something business-owners created to help MAKE money?
According to a report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Obama spent $9 BILLION of “green jobs” stimulus money to create a whopping total of 910 jobs.
Remember back when a “job” was something business-owners created to help MAKE money?
Obama has been pretty fuzzy on where jobs come from. There’s a passage in _The_Amateur_ that describes an early meeting between Obama and House Republicans:
Nuts to him.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is lying. WE spent $9 BILLION of hard-earned tax dollars to create a whopping total of 910 jobs…Obama doesn’t ever spend his own money.
I’m guessing those 910 jobs includes the guys that sweep the floor at the solar panel factory.
But that’s only $9.9M per job. Who says government isn’t efficient?
It’s safe to say that the only thing more retarded than windmills would be solar panels…..at least the wind blows AT NIGHT!
I bet the amount they generate doesn’t even pay for the Windex it takes to clean them. I wonder how many of those 910 jobs are $8/hr window washers?
Wonder if the gears & bearings in those wind turbines are lubricated with some sort of magical soy-based emulsion?
I mean… they wouldn’t use petroleum-based grease, would they?
Being in business, I know how that works. Get the money, skim 40% off the top for executive bonuses, hire idiots and pay them $10/hr., run the company into the dirt and file for bankruptcy. Move to another startup and repeat. Not that I’ve ever done that. It’s government-sponsored fraud.
Windmills are actually coal fueled, just like toy cars. They require huge amounts of electricity to: A:turn into the wind B:Stop turning when the magical winds are too high. Cut-out Speed – At very high wind speeds, typically between 45 and 80 mph…. (Imagine the brake on a 600′ wheel? O_O) and C: They HEAT them!! Ever had electric heat? So, on a windy day with freezing rain, both the brake and the heat would be on, a giant windmill probably consumes more energy in 24 hours than it generates in a week. What a great idea!!!
I gotta make this bumper sticker:
Retired Marine!
I was green before being green was cool!
I thought Obama believed that jobs grow in a cabbage patch and are delivered to “the folks” by storks.
@blarg: Nah. His daddy told him…
“Well, you see, when a socialist and a huge government bureaucracy fall in love…”
$9 mil/job???
Dear President Obama,
Just send me $8 million and you can claim you saved $1 million and we’ll call it even.
Sincerely,
Bob in Feenicks
Dear Bob in Feenicks,
Do I know you? Have you contributed to my campaign? It’s normal for green engerny loan applicants to have contributed millions already.
Besides, Feenicks is in Arizona, the 53rd State. You’re dead to me thanks to Sheriff Joe.
Sincerely,
President Barack Hussein Obama