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Any of them go to work for Solyndra or Solar One?
Any of them go to work for Solyndra or Solar One?
The number of projects providing solar energy more than doubled in the U.S. from 2008 to 2010. In that time, the amount of solar energy generated increased from enough to power 1.4 million homes in 2008 to 3.2 million homes in 2010. Wind energy has increased 1.5 times in capacity over the same time, able to power 39 million homes in 2010, up from 25 million in 2008.
Renewable energy has been growing fast in Ohio. The number of new projects approved by the state in the first 10 months of 2011 is more than triple that of all of 2010. And of the 2,797 new constructions approved this year, all but 24 were solar power arrays.
No idea. Why? Did you think the green energy field would be the first in the history of the world that didn't count failures among its successes?
Why? Because if they did they would be unemployed today.
If solar energy is so good then let the private sector develop it, not the Federal Govt. It is easy to point out gaudy numbers when the base is so low to begin with. Solar has its place just not now and certainly not with taxpayer dollars.
What is it about liberalism that creates such loyalty.
Come on J-mac....it's pretty obvious to anybody that those guys are doing some form of counter protests to the occupy crowd which is why the lady comes up and points out that you can't feed a family on the majority of those adds.
The fact is, beyond partisan stunts like this (I can show you plenty of people going around making Tea Partiers look like idiots and racists) there are many more unemployed people than jobs in this country. Maybe if we had low unemployment rates you could make the argument that people just don't want to work. The fact is most people are stuck with part time jobs so the number of unemployed and underemployed is huge in this country.
You worked at a job and moved up the ranks. Cases like yours is what made this country great. The fact the new generation isn't experiencing that is a shame and you'd think you support them getting their opportunity.
Its funny to watch the liberals who were just OUTRAGED...OUTRAGED I tells ya!!! over Bush's connection to oil companies (while the conveniently ignore democrats investment with oil...banks...brokers...and having unions balls deep in those democrats) now easily dismissing the Obama connection to campaign contributions and the different loans to the failed green companies. Funny...comical...and yet...pathetic...all at the same time.
You know, I hate to say this, but you're closer to being right than most would admit.
In previous generations, you found a job, worked hard, moved up the ladder of success and retired. That was the norm. Anything else was the exception.
Nowadays, if you're lucky enough to get a job, it will be a low wage position with no upward mobility. You could literally be answering phones at a receptionist desk for 30 years. 30 years ago, that was unheard of. You might start at receptionist, but you'd eventually move into office management. My neighbor, who is a staunch republican/christian church going lady, actually told me that our generation is the first generation to not have it better than our parents. My dad, at his age, was making more 30 years ago than I am today. He got one job, and kept moving up, now he's been there 42 years and has been promoted to second to the top. His salary reflects it, too. He has a college degree in engineering.
Me, I got a college degree in finance and insurance. I couldn't get a job and the one I got was punching numbers on a computer for 8 dollars an hour. It didn't pay the bills. I wound up moving back in with my parents because of underemployment. I got another job, pumping jet fuel at an airport, for even less, 6.15 an hour to start, moved to 7.15/hr after I finished training. Well, low and behold, that didn't pay the bills either. So I had to move back in with my parents and saved up and went back to school. NOW, at the age of 32, I'm finally making a living wage but working extremely long hours to do it. The job is ok, benefits are decent, but the hours and lack of a schedule that I can work around are ripping me apart. I have friends I haven't seen since I began working here as I'm always here.
But at least I was able to purchase a house and move out on my own.
You know, I hate to say this, but you're closer to being right than most would admit.
In previous generations, you found a job, worked hard, moved up the ladder of success and retired. That was the norm. Anything else was the exception.
Nowadays, if you're lucky enough to get a job, it will be a low wage position with no upward mobility. You could literally be answering phones at a receptionist desk for 30 years. 30 years ago, that was unheard of. You might start at receptionist, but you'd eventually move into office management. My neighbor, who is a staunch republican/christian church going lady, actually told me that our generation is the first generation to not have it better than our parents. My dad, at his age, was making more 30 years ago than I am today. He got one job, and kept moving up, now he's been there 42 years and has been promoted to second to the top. His salary reflects it, too. He has a college degree in engineering.
Me, I got a college degree in finance and insurance. I couldn't get a job and the one I got was punching numbers on a computer for 8 dollars an hour. It didn't pay the bills. I wound up moving back in with my parents because of underemployment. I got another job, pumping jet fuel at an airport, for even less, 6.15 an hour to start, moved to 7.15/hr after I finished training. Well, low and behold, that didn't pay the bills either. So I had to move back in with my parents and saved up and went back to school. NOW, at the age of 32, I'm finally making a living wage but working extremely long hours to do it. The job is ok, benefits are decent, but the hours and lack of a schedule that I can work around are ripping me apart. I have friends I haven't seen since I began working here as I'm always here. Unfortunately, there is no upward mobility here either, the guy I answer to is part owner of the company. The only way I'll make more is if they expand and thus give me more responsibility.
But at least I was able to purchase a house and move out on my own.
No idea. Why? Did you think the green energy field would be the first in the history of the world that didn't count failures among its successes?
Let's hear of some of those successes among its failures and how much each job cost.
There have been far more jobs, unsubsidized jobs, created in the energy sector related to gas and oil then there have been in the Green sector. How much does it cost the American taxpayer for each of these "green' jobs?
:2funny: :roll: :roll:Actually there is quite a bit of Marxist philosophy involved. Or, if you prefer Marxism-Leninism.
The progressive income tax is Marxist. Most of this nation has embraced it, knowing nothing else. In the long run it is the way to move the nation from individual responsibility toward central planning, small scale socialism, then European style socialism, then European style economic collapse.
Why? Because if they did they would be unemployed today.
If solar energy is so good then let the private sector develop it, not the Federal Govt. It is easy to point out gaudy numbers when the base is so low to begin with. Solar has its place just not now and certainly not with taxpayer dollars.
What is it about liberalism that creates such stupidity.
Oil is a limited resource.
But it's AOK with you that federal subsidies to the oil and coal industries dwarf green energy subsidies, right?
All of the oil and gas jobs are subsidized in one form or another.
I don't have the answers for your green energy questions, and they wouldn't matter much to me if I did. I think we need to invest in green energy for security and environmental reasons. That it creates some jobs is a bonus.
Barrack Obama just cost the US economy upwards of 20,000 real jobs.
Sure he did. If you uncritically swallow the ridiculous claims made by the pipeline company. I understand that cigarettes are good for you, too.
You only buy what you are told from the leftwing zealots? What is it about liberalism that creates this kind of loyalty?
TransCanada’s claims that an estimated 20,000 construction and manufacturing jobs would be created if the Obama administration approves the controversial Keystone XL pipeline are “significantly inflated,” according to a new analysis of the project released today.
The assessment, by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute, concludes that “the construction of Keystone XL will create far fewer jobs in the U.S. than its proponents have claimed and may actually destroy more jobs than it generates.
What is it about conservatism that makes people so incredibly gullible?
Fuel Fix » Report: Keystone XL job claims are exaggerated
Sure he did. If you uncritically swallow the ridiculous claims made by the pipeline company. I understand that cigarettes are good for you, too.
What is it about conservatism that makes people so incredibly gullible?
Fuel Fix » Report: Keystone XL job claims are exaggerated
What is it about conservatism that makes people so incredibly gullible?
Fuel Fix » Report: Keystone XL job claims are exaggerated
In a statement, API called the Cornell report’s conclusion “preposterous.” The trade group added:
“The Keystone XL pipeline promises to be a massive job creator, and to attempt to stop its approval is an affront to the 25 million Americans who are either unemployed or underemployed.”
. . .My dad, at his age, was making more 30 years ago than I am today. He got one job, and kept moving up, now he's been there 42 years and has been promoted to second to the top. His salary reflects it, too. He has a college degree in engineering.
Me, I got a college degree in finance and insurance. I couldn't get a job . . .
Perhaps it is time to protest against Big Education for providing so very little at such a great cost.
Engineers are in demand. They almost always are. And when the USA is done there will be other countries where an engineer can go and still earn a good living. You got a worthless degree in finance. My oldest daughter got a worthless degree in Mass Communications. You both had the same experience after graduation.
If schools told potential students that their proposed degrees would be essentially worthless perhaps more students would pursue hard skills.