Most road construction jobs are skilled union jobs. New employees will have to start with scut work, and they won’t stand for that.

Concrete forms? That’s the carpenter’s union.

People will be “employed,” just for subsistence wages that will make Wal-Mart pay look extravagant.

But that’s OK, the Feds will be providing food, housing and medical care anyway, right?

Yes, the direction B. Hussein obama and his cronies want to drive us, straight into socialism, or as it’s known, communism light.

I thought that’s what our fine public school system was doing.

Seem to recall that the average teacher’s salary in Chicago is over $100K. Surely those fine educators, with the additional boost from the Anneburg Challenge, have produced hundreds of thousands of eager, highly trained workers eager to bring us into an enlightened Green Age.

Sure sounds like those fine “green” jobs, and certainly all the infrastructure jobs would be lower paying manual labor. Government health care is not going to pay well and we are constantly told how poorly teachers are paid…

All those manual labor jobs won’t be filled by welfare recipients, out of work financial types, hi-tech layoffs, realty sales persons, unionized auto workers (ok- maybe the auto workers). Look who are the preferred workers on infrastucture and building projects currently.

Where are those new workers coming from?

Opening up our borders to new Democrat voters from our southern neighbors – amnesty to all illegal workers that are here already. I’m sure Mr. Obama will be able to co-opt John McCain into forcing rallying the nation to the cause…after all the money the government will put out there for these programs to save our economy, they certainly can’t let it fail because of insufficient workers!

The revolution of change needs all the proletariat, oops, I mean workers it can get.

Viva el Presidente!

Someone was on Rush the other day making a similar point. Where are all the skilled workers hiding who will be able to give us this much improved infrastructure?
The one way they could find workers (to train) is the one thing they would never consider – ending welfare. This nut job thinks that it makes sense to expand entitlement programs along with starting a huge public works program? Who the heck is going to sign up to work? Or is their plan going to put so many private contractors out of business that the skilled, trained workers have to go to work for the government?

Well, close, but not quite the misery involved that the left prefer. Instead, think “The Matrix”, all of us in cocoons underground providing heat energy for the few, with computer programs to replace our otherwise miserable lives. Don’t any of you laugh at me now….

Funny…$4 trillion of debt back in 1992 and today it’s more than $10….and if anyone out there thinks it only be an elephant thing…..think again!

Spend a little time on Michael Hodges “Grandfather Economic” series and your see……..quote*In the 1990s $2.8 trillion of new debt was created; more than created in the nation’s entire history prior to 1990*end quote!

There is no change coming…….jus more of the same O’…..print more money and never educate the taxpayer.

Well, his brilliant analysis consists of describing the market as nothing but a series of uncontrolled crashes due to lack of regulation. He fails to mention, after each crash correction, the market continues to grow past previous highs. They are called business cycles.

FDR pulled a bunch of marginalized anti-capitalists out of Academia just like this clown. They tinkered with the economy, creating misery. History repeats itself.

There’s a handful of those around, I know of a custom made van in England like that, and Fox had something about a car with solar panels/windmill the other day.

A couple of things hold back these “green” power initiatives, such as lack of a perfect dielectric (way to store electricity), and an efficient way to transmit power around the world or from space. That way we could be buying solar power from the Mid-East or Africa during night and/or dark weather. Yahoo, imagine the world peace that would bring. Or we could mount solar power stations in space out of sight of all those liberals and their McMansions, but the only way I’ve heard they might transmit the power would be by microwave, which wouldn’t be good for the birds flying overhead.

But what annoys me most is there’s simply no !$^%$! plan, Obama just wants to give money to a bunch of small businesses and hope for a miracle. We need to have major research without politics, have scientists finding out what can make energy and how much, and decide how we’ll do it.

not quite. They caused the problem.

Barney Franks (Harvard), Chris Dodd (Georgetown), Franklin Raines (Harvard), Jim Johnson (Princeton).

Now that they have reduced the wealth of the country 20%, they are working on the other 80%.

Am I getting this right?

We force people to buy things they don’t particularly want … and that will save the economy.

No that can’t be right.

Ah! We pay people to make things that nobody wants, and then force other people to buy them. That will save the economy.

No that still doesn’t sound right.

We need more wealth, so we’ll pay people to build more bridges and schoolrooms.

Nah …

Let’s see … Hmmm … The accumulated folly and wisdom of 350 million people with every imaginable sort of talent and experience wasn’t quite good enough to keep the good times rolling, so we’ll replace their judgment with that of a couple of thousand bureaucrats, politicians and ivy-leaguers.

Hmmm … Those bureaucrats, politicians and ivy-leaguers were part of the original 350 million crowd, but none of them did anything notable to stave off the problem before.

Could that be it? Doesn’t look quite right.

I’m running out of ideas here.

How exactly is this supposed to work?

Pay people to flap their arms and huff, puff and fart. The flapping and huffing will create the wind we need for clean energy. We capture the farts and shoot them into space to prevent global warming.

But Obamy probably has already thought of it in the 46 years he has spent in his dorm room..

Is it the same way solar panels produce electricity when the sun isn’t shining?

I’m just not smart enough to understand the amazing alternative energy sources that will be transforming our country in a few short months.

But I can’t wait to get a car with a windmill on it.

When we build a bridge in Minneapolis, upgrade the levee system in New Orleans or retrofit public buildings and private homes to raise their energy efficiency, virtually every dollar is spent within our economy. By contrast, only 80 cents of every dollar spent in the oil industry remains in the United States. The figure is still lower with the military budget

First of all, get rid of ridiculous regulations that prevent drilling and expanding refineries and every dollar spent on the oil industry would remain in the US. Secondly, when we increase energy production domestically, energy prices remain low so we can expand the economy. It is a concept foreign to liberals known as creating wealth. Dumping confiscated tax dollars into infrastructure and energy efficiency is a sinkhole that creates little wealth.

Here is an example of some of those clean energy jobs BO plans to create:

Defects stop turbines at Iron Range wind farm
Associated Press

DULUTH, Minn. – A wind farm on Minnesota’s Iron Range was fully online this summer, but seven of the 10 wind turbines have been shut off in recent months for repairs.

For that reason, Taconite Ridge wind farm isn’t producing as much electricity as Minnesota Power anticipated.

The $50 million project overlooks U.S. Steel’s Minntac mine and covers about 450 acres.

http://www.startribune.com/local/35654849.html?

We’ll have about 2 million people repairing windmills – in the dark.