In Thursday night’s Vice Presidential debate, the Administration’s green agenda was, once again, part of the verbal sparring. The exchange ended with Congressman Ryan’s unanswered question: “Where are the 5 million green jobs…?” Moderator Martha Raddatz cut him off mid-question, steering the conversation elsewhere: “I want to move on here to Medicare and entitlements. I think we’ve gone over this quite enough.”
Ryan didn’t finish his question. Vice President Biden wasn’t pressed into an uncomfortable answer that would have wiped the smile off his face.
Had Ryan not been interrupted and been allowed to finished the question, he likely would have continued: “…Candidate Obama promised in 2008 when he pledged to jumpstart the economy with an influx of green jobs. Many times, he specifically stated: ‘I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create 5 million new energy jobs over the next decade—jobs that pay well; jobs that can’t be outsourced; jobs building solar panels and wind turbines and a new electricity grid; jobs building the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow, not in Japan, not in South Korea but right here in the U.S. of A. Jobs that will help us eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years and help save the planet in the bargain. That’s how America can lead again.’ Where are those green jobs?”
Had Biden answered, he might have tried the same line Obama used in the “60 Minutes” interview clip that didn’t air on national television: “We have tens of thousands of jobs that have been created as a consequence of wind energy alone”—though that hardly adds up to 5 million. Try as he might, Biden couldn’t have smiled his way through a recitation of green jobs created through the proposed $15 billion a year. It is not a happy story. In fact, through the 2009 stimulus, more than $15 billion a year was allocated for green energy projects—which in his four-year term would have added up to $60 billion. Instead, while the numbers quoted vary, $80-90 billion has been made available for green energy projects.
With the assistance of researcher Christine Lakatos, I have been chronicling Obama’s stimulus-funded green energy failures. First, we looked at the companies that have gone bankrupt, and then those that are heading that way—or at least have financial issues. Within those reports, we frequently addressed specific green jobs failures. For example, regarding Fisker, the electric car made in Finland, we say:
ABC reported: ‘Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department’s $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright, new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs.’ Those jobs didn’t materialize—at least not in America. … Two years after the loan was awarded, the Washington Post stated that Fisker ‘has missed early manufacturing goals and has gradually pushed back plans for U.S. production and the creation of thousands of jobs’… Now, in 2012, Fisker Automotive is laying off staff in order to qualify for more government loans. So, President Obama’s ‘green’ energy stimulus was supposed to create jobs; now it’s destroying jobs so that companies can get more stimulus?
Read more at EPA Abuse. By Marita Noon.
Photo credit: terrellaftermath
Related posts:
- Obama’s Green-Jobs Fraud Exposed Industrial Policy: For a $9 billion investment, the administration created…
- How Many Americans Hold “Green” Jobs? The Labor Department says at least 3.1 million Americans are…
Get Informed! Read More About this topic::
- Green Energy Triumph: $11 Million Spent Per Job Created “Without much fanfare, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently updated...
- Video: Taxpayers Green For Obama’s Green Cronies Obama has flushed billions of dollars in hard-earned taxpayer money...
- Green Fuel Company Awarded $23 Million In 2010, Shutting Doors In 2013 Rentech Incorporated received $23 million from the DOE for a...
- DNC Lie: It’s Not 4.5 Million Jobs, But Less Than 300,000 (CNN) — Anyone watching the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday...
- Video: Another Obama Green Energy Stimulus Company Going Bust Fox News reports that another company, A123, received energy stimulus...
