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To: Alighieri who wrote (495598)	7/16/2009 11:45:09 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573430

>> After they are built and installed...but you knew that didn't you?.... What bull. Building LED lightbulbs is not a labor-intensive process and you damned well know it. But what labor there is, as was pointed out by someone else, is largely in China. It is safe to say the jobs involved here are minimal. Minimal as in SUBSTANTIALLY ZERO. There will be NO hiring for the installations. These are done as time is available by existing city/county employees. They're not going to hire new people to install these lights. It is a bogus argument from the ground up. It save labor going forward and it saves energy. I will point that the REASON localities are moving slowly on these replacements is the cost of the LED bulbs is so high as to make the energy savings worth it, but not hugely. The principal driving force behind replacements given current pricing is the cost of the labor to replace the bulbs. Thus, the effect on unemployment is actually COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE. It is just typical of how poorly thought out this so called stimulus bill was.