THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XII, Issue # 6, January 9, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE LIES ABOUT GREEN JOBS
By Alan Caruba
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA, THE THREAT THAT THIS POLICY AGENDA POSES TO THE
AMERICAN ECONOMY, & THE DUTY OF AMERICAN VOTERS IN THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF 2010: FACTS
WORTH SERIOUS CONSIDERATION EVERY TIME PRESIDENT OBAMA CALLS FOR AN EXPANSION OR INTERCESSION OF THE
U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AS THE SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS -- U.S. ENERGY POLICY & THE
CURRENT PROBLEM OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT -- ECONOMIC REGULATORY POLICIES BASED ON THE FRAUDULENT THEORY
HUMAN-INDUCED "GLOBAL WARMING" -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO STOP & REVERSE THE GROWING ECONOMIC
CATASTROPHE BEING CREATED BY THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, SUPPORTED BY A CONGRESS UNDER THE CONTROL OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & ITS HARDCORE LEFT?
FULL STORY:
“I was impressed as never before by the utter lack
of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise
knowledge of things that he was talking about, by
the gross inaccuracies in his statements, by the
almost pathological lack of sequences in his
discussion, by the complete rectitude that he felt
as to his own conduct, by the immense and
growing egotism that came from his office, by his
willingness to continue the excoriation of the
press and business in order to get votes for
himself, by his indifference to what effect the
long-continued pursuit of these ends would have
upon the civilization in which he was playing a
part.”
No, this was not a judgment of President Barack Hussein Obama, though the description eerily fits him. It was the view
of Raymond Moley, a Columbia University professor and member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust”
who often wrote or helped write FDR’s major speeches. FDR’s policies extended the Great Depression for ten years.
Here are some facts worth considering every time Obama calls for an expansion or intercession of the U.S. government as
an answer to the current financial crisis:
Social Security, a cornerstone of FDR’s administration, was established in 1935. After 74 years, it is on the brink of
insolvency because Congress gave itself access to its funds.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 to facilitate home ownership. It has been around for 71 years. Congress has had to
seize control of it and of Freddie Mac, established in 1970. Together, they presently own or guarantee about half of the
United States’ $12 trillion mortgage market.
The War on Poverty started in 1964. One trillion dollars has been transferred to “the poor,” and it has not worked.
The Department of Energy was established in 1977 to lessen dependence on the import of foreign oil. With 16,000
employees and an annual budget of $24 billion, the United States has imported more oil with every passing year, while
denying U.S. oil companies access to vast national reserves in ANWR and off our continental shelf. It is an abysmal
failure.
All of these programs were put forth by Liberals, now calling themselves “Progressives,” initiated by Democratic Party
presidential administrations to advance what the Leftists call “social justice.” The Obama administration is hell-bent on
“health care reform” that will put one sixth of the U.S. economy under the control of the national government, whose
interventions in the free market have been the cause of the previous recessions.
In 2010, the Obama administration says it intends to relieve the job shortage by creating “green jobs” in the sectors of
wind and solar power and biofuels. It has announced a program that will cost $2.3 billion, costing approximately $135,000
per job.
“Show me one other industry that requests and receives a nearly 30 percent taxpayer subsidy,” says Thomas J. Pyle,
President of the market-based Institute for Energy Research. “If the President really wants to create an environment that
will foster economic growth and job creation, he need not look any further than the domestic oil, gas, and coal industries.”
In November, 2009, a Washington Times editorial said, “’Green energy’ is proving to be no miracle solution to the
nation’s monumental unemployment problems, and it is doing little to help the economy emerge from its deepest recession
in decades, economists say.”
A large part of the administration’s $786 billion dollar stimulus bill was devoted to green or renewable energy projects, but
the rate of unemployment continues to rise, the cost of gasoline and heating oil continues to rise in the face of the coldest
winter on record in decades, and real jobs in energy industries are thwarted by Obama administration restrictions on the
exploration and development of our national energy reserves.
Similar green jobs programs in Spain, Germany, and other nations that signed onto the UN Kyoto Protocols limiting carbon
dioxide emissions have demonstrated that such jobs cost too much to create and eliminate other jobs in the process.
Following recent Climategate revelations, it is abundantly clear that socalled greenhouse gas emissions do not cause a
non-existent “global warming,” which was and is a massive science-based fraud.
Despite this, a Cap-and-Trade bill awaits a vote in the U.S. Senate that would impose a huge tax on energy use. At the same
time, the EPA is claiming that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that must be regulated.
The lies simply do not stop.
Socalled green jobs depend on two of the most impractical and unreliable sources of electricity generation. Solar and wind
farms require backup by coal-fired and nuclear power sources for the blatantly obvious reason that the sun does not shine
full-time, nor do the winds blow full-time. These, plus biofuel producers, are parked on the doorstep of Congress to secure
the subsidies they need just to be in business; subsidies that are derived from our taxes
Biofuels divert valuable crops like corn to create ethanol, driving up the cost for a gasoline additive that incongruously
produces less mileage and increases the cost of the many food products that utilize corn.
America, the home to centuries-worth of massive amounts of coal, has a President who has openly declared war on the coal
industry that currently provides half of all the electricity used by Americans. By contrast, solar and wind provide just over
one percent!
When the President talks of “green jobs,” he is lying to Americans who need real jobs. The stimulus bill was nothing more
than a political “pork” bill and is providing no real surge in job creation. Indeed, the administration has claimed to have
“saved” or produced jobs in non-existent Congressional districts.
Meanwhile, the members of the U.S. House and Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 in new raises at the same
time they have voted to deny a Social Security cost of living increase in 2010 and 2011.
The job of every voter in November, 2010, is to remove from office every Senator and Representative that voted for and
supported the Obama administration’s policies, that is, those Obama supporters who run for reelection to Congress.
Then, maybe, we can put America on an economic footing that will generate real jobs and put an end to the Green Lies
about “green jobs,” the proposed legislation inspired by environmentalists, and the existing Green laws and regulations
that are currently killing any hope of economic recovery.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, Special Interest Groups, & Political Corruption
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, business and science writer, he is the
Founder of The National Anxiety Center.
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