Green by the numbers

Paul Taylor, LA Ecopolitics Examiner, August 10, 2014

It is widely recognized that the Obama administration has transparently directed government money to secure his partisan voter blocks in every election. No where is this cronyism more evident than with his “green” environmental constituency. And, names like Solyndra, First Energy, Abound Solar, SoloPower and others have become synonymous with President Obama’s buying votes and expanding the perverse co-dependency of evermore Americans and American businesses on government gifts such as loans, grants and tax credit, particularly in the myopic renewable energy arena.......The actual costs of environmental initiatives are both illusive and pervasive. Here are some recent accounts of government costs for implementation and enforcement of various environmental regulations and programs:
 
• Federal agencies now impose $1.9 trillion in annual regulatory compliance costs on American businesses and families according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. These regulations are linked to our economic shrinkage by 2.9% the first quarter of 2014 -- where 7.5 million Americans have been forced to accept lower-quality, lower-wage, low-benefit part-time jobs;... Read more