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Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.), on the lack of jobs created from the Administration’s stimulus spending, particularly on green energy.
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-- us now is the chairman of the powerful house oversight and Government Reform Committee.
He is congressman -- our allies -- congressman.
-- great to have you with this you are we would we have and go a great deal obviously to talk about you have said that you're going to look into this.
This administration's Green energy program.
And that includes some corporates of course salon draw and that half billion dollars.
Don't Bockwoldt.
Audit -- light square which no one -- quite understands the parameters of the dimensions.
Of those charges and allegations.
And obviously operation faster -- -- let's start with the Green jobs.
Issue and which are going to do in relationship to slander and told to light squared especially can tell.
Well Lou I think the important thing is tomorrow we're going to have what is part of our continued monitoring of all the Green spent and no jobs created.
Are hearing will focus on.
The Green energy initiative which was ideologically driven from day one by this administration.
Even in the face of an absence of job creation.
Obviously it's easy to focus and important to focus.
On a major bankruptcy and 500 million dollars lost.
But understand in stimulus alone we have about ninety billion dollars meeting a 180 times as much money imperiled.
That we're looking at tomorrow where so much Green is being spent so few permanent jobs ever created because this is an agenda not about.
Low cost clean fuel going to job creators in rather it's about an agenda of trying to make something happen.
Even if in fact it doesn't -- -- in our in the near term future.
Lot of people talking if you don't mind.
About Green jobs and they talk about it like Apollo.
If you adjust the entire Apollo program getting us to the moon and back safely in today's dollars it was only a hundred billion for the whole program.
We've spent that in the stimulus alone.
And it's important to is congressman Barack -- pointed out.
This this half billion dollars is more of -- the administration sent out of 35 states -- highways for refer.
For bridges.
This is astonishing that.
