....but if it saves one polar bear... Would have been cheaper and created more jobs to properly insulate the houses of the poor. And it would have reduced carbon emissions by more.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Good point Fred... we could have also given 910 qualified entrepreneurs 10 million each to start new green businesses.. We would probably get more bang for the buck.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
The Department of Energy estimated that 82,000 jobs have been created and has acknowledged that as much as 80 percent of some green programs, including $2.3 billion of manufacturing tax credits, went to foreign firms that employed workers primarily in countries including China, South Korea and Spain, rather than in the United States.
Peter Morici, a business professor at the University of Maryland, said much of the green stimulus funding was "squandered."
"Large grants to build green buildings don't generate many new jobs, except for a few architects," he said. "Subsidies for windmills and solar panels created lots of jobs in China," but few at home....
