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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (77306)	1/10/2010 1:37:49 AM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

These are the sound bites that get taken out of context. Perhaps Reid hit on why Democrat Party chose to run Barrack Hussein Obama for POTUS. Obama was acceptable in their eyes. Seems that Reid called it pretty well. Of course the Primary Campaign had Obama playing the race card throughout------dwelling upon the blackness of his Kenyan, British Subject, presumed, father to gain votes. What was so fascinating about that primary race were the early debates between Hillary and Obama--------it was obvious that Hillary did not know what to do with Obama and his mixed heritage. Wonder how Obama and Hillary are getting along now?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (77306)	1/10/2010 5:11:15 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Obama's Green Jobs Program: $135,294 Per Job By Sean Higgins Fri., Jan. 08, '10 5:03 PM ET blogs.investors.com The White House announced Friday the awarding of $2.3 billion in tax credits — the money comes from last year’s stimulus bill — to companies to create “green jobs.” The announcement was rather obviously timed to counter the news that the nation lost 85,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate stayed at 10% — bad news for an administration that once promised to hold unemployment to 8% by the end of 2009. So the administration sought to change the tune by talking about all those green jobs in the pipeline. “Building a robust clean-energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future — jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced,” President Obama said Friday. Yes, but getting these jobs is burning a hole in the national wallet. The problem is that even advocates like Obama concede that these programs are not very cost-effective in creating jobs. Obama says the grants will create 17,000 cleantech jobs. Well, get out your calculator. $2.3 billion for 17,000 jobs equals $135,294 per job. (And that’s not including the eventual interest on this deficit spending). Those green jobs had better pay well over six figures to justify that expense. Not to worry, the administration has a plan to solve this, too. It wants Congress to approve another $5 billion for “tens of thousands” more green jobs.