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FBN's Gerri Willis on the costly spending on green energy jobs and the reclassification of jobs as trash collection as 'green energy.'
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Statement might -- you are president loves Green energy -- it doesn't shock you in fact he loves everything Green.
Green energy Green jobs Green projects Green eggs and ham a -- -- about the last one.
He loves Green so much is that a gold creating five million Green jobs in the stimulus disaster provided eighty billion dollars to help do just that so.
How do you do.
Well according to the Labor Department only about three million Americans are employed in Green jobs which accounts for about two and a half percent of the nation's total employment.
In other words I don't see these jobs being the turnaround for the market especially if more boondoggles like the -- keep happening.
There's nothing like spending 528 million dollars to lose 11100 jobs.
Also the report makes no assessment of when the jobs were created but did say the bulk of them are in the private sector.
But what exactly is a Green -- the manager even the manager of the Labor Department's Green jobs project admitted there is no widely accepted definition.
Here's a look at some of the jobs around the country that are classified.
As Green.
An Indiana steady state of the fastest growing Green occupations work.
Truck drivers.
Engineers.
Sales representatives.
Maintenance workers -- -- what part of any of these categories qualifies -- Green.
A report out of Hawaii says -- fastest growing Green energy -- construction and government soon.
The same is true in Iowa were construction workers and -- -- made up the bulk of its Green jobs.
And several states are classified trash collection is a Green industry.
-- mystify me.
These are not -- bank -- new jobs not solving our nation's unemployment crisis for the most part these are individuals who took a class or two and got certified.
Meaning now while in -- same position as before now let's agreeing to up its all smoke and mirrors and a waste of money.
Another Labor Department report on Green jobs from September that its training program which costs taxpayers 435.
Million dollars.
Only produced about 8000 jobs.
And the kicker in all of this to report from the Labor Department today has been in the works for weeks.
Costing us you know what eight million dollars you can see it's already -- -- From hoping pipelines pushing -- mills.
And useless electric cars this administration made going Green it's silver bullet for fixing the energy problem and the jobless problem.
At the same time.
And fortunately neither have worked the benefits of going Green have been way oversold.
I wish I wasn't the only idea the president hats.
