green jobs

BOHICA!! I won’t go into a description of the nomenclature on that one just now. Suffice that it means you’ve been had again and again and again. With magnificent disregard for reality the evil empire has struck again and voted itself fifty billion dollars worth of non-existent money.

Obama signs a twenty six billion dollar spending bill, watched by teachers and government workers.

But wait… those presses have to work overtime to print all that money. Government printers with government unions. That’s Obama’s idea of jobs growth. Fifty billion dollars to prop up teachers’ unions and other public sector unions. Doubtless, much of this illicit largesse will work its way into DeMarxist war chests before long.

This is where I tell you that now it’s no longer yours and my money they’re stealing… uh-uh. Your kids‘. That’s whose money and prosperity they’re stealing now. If something isn’t done to stop them, they’ll be into the lives of our grandchildren. So this latest tour de force by the triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi and Reid has most Americans really boiling.

To most of us, this latest government payoff to the unions just points out the abject failure of Obama’s entire policy, starting with the 800+ billion dollar extravaganza that brought us Government Motors and “green jobs”, at the rate of 350,000 dollars cost to the taxpayer per job. What we can say unequivocally is that it has been, and is, a colossal failure.

We now have eighty two days until the election. Tell us about what you’re doing to get yourself and your friends fired up and ready for the election… But then, most of us have been pretty disgusted for some time.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

Remember all the rage about "biofuels" being the answer to the energy crisis?

Remember all those millions of "green jobs" the President-elect is promising to create?  

Well, on the local level, we are moving in the opposite direction. A plant built to process biodiesel is shutting down in the wake of the failure of its corporate parent.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/11/29/news/a2-chbiofuels26.txt

The court-appointed receiver overseeing the liquidation of assets of a now-defunct Waterbury heating oil company said he will ask a Hartford Superior Court judge next week to allow the abandonment of a biofuels plant the firm was developing in Cheshire.

Carlton Helming said he will make the request of state Superior Court Judge Grant Miller because the plant “is not economically viable to maintain.”

Watch billions of taxpayer dollars be wasted in the next few years building white elephants like this all over the nation. We are just going to reprise the massive ethanol folly (now acknowleged by CBS news) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/24/tech/main4629581.shtml?source=RSSattr=SciTech_4629581 all over again

<!-- sphereit start -->In  future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom.

Right or wrong, that was when blame firmly settled on biofuels for the surge in food prices. The diversion of American corn from flour to fuel put the flat corn bread out of reach for Mexico's poorest.

Two years later, the search is on for ways to keep corn on the table rather than in the gas tank.