Posted 03/21/2013
Solyndra looms, a new government report shows that by the government's own broad definition of a green job, more can be found in a coal mine than near a solar panel. The second annual Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on "Employment in Green Goods and Services," released Tuesday, will be the last, allegedly a casualty of the same sequestration that claimed the White House tours and may doom the Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn. That is probably a good thing, for if it were published as a book, it would deserve a place at the top of the New York Times best-seller fiction list. It is chock full of charts claiming millions of new "green" jobs being produced by President Obama's efforts to heal the planet and lower the rising seas. But if you have the eyes and the patience to actually examine it, it is full of lies, damned lies and government statistics…….. Under the heading "coal and petroleum products mfg." we find 3,278 jobs. So even in the BLS list of "green" jobs, coal and oil wins. So what about the "millions" of other "green" jobs claimed? The problem is in that definition…… "Many of these jobs being counted as 'green' are not green and not new,"…."BLS is counting green jobs to include bus drivers, trash collectors, radio broadcasters and movie producers.”……. To Read More….
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