Making my skin crawl - get them while they are young
Nothing like filling the minds of our children with
Watermelon Environmentalist crap while they have not yet developed powers of discrimination and logic.
From
CNS News:
U.S. Education Secretary Vows to Make American Children 'Good Environmental Citizens'
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan vowed on Tuesday that his department would work to make American children into "good environmental citizens" through federally subsidized school programs beginning as early as kindergarten that teach children about climate change and prepare them "to contribute to the workforce through green jobs."
�Right now, in the second decade of the ST century, preparing our children to be good environmental citizens is some of the most important work any of us can do. It�s work that will serve future generations--and quite literally sustain our world,� Duncan said at the Education Department�s "Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy."
�This week�s sustainability summit represents the first time that the Department is taking a taking a leadership role in the work of educating the next generation of green citizens and preparing them to contribute to the workforce through green jobs,� said Duncan. �President Obama has made clean, renewable energy a priority because, as he says, it�s the best way to 'truly transform our economy, to protect our security, and save our planet.'
What Green Jobs -- there are no Green Jobs. Haven't they read this 53 page PDF report:
Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources
Written by Gabriel Calzada �lvarez PhD. of the University Rey Juan Carlos and published in March of 2009 it outlines Spain's attempts to build an alt.energy infrastructure with government backing starting in 1991 and continuing through 2009. In 2004, at the height of this craziness, Spain was
generating 49% of its electricity from Oil, 18% from Gas, 15% from Solid Fuels (Coal), 12% Nuke, and 6% from renewables. And this is at the peak of the campaign to adopt alternative energy sources.
Some of the facts from the report (there are 23 bullet points at the beginning -- I am cherry picking a few of them. The rest of the report is the data with links to back up their facts.):
3. Therefore, while it is not possible to directly translate Spain's experience with exactitude to claim that the U.S. would lose at least 6.6 million to 11 million jobs, as a direct consequence were it to actually create 3 to 5 million �green jobs� as promised (in addition to the jobs lost due to the opportunity cost of private capital employed in renewable energy), the study clearly reveals the tendency that the U.S. should expect such an outcome.
A wonderful thing to be looking forward to isn't that.
Here is another:
10. Each �green� megawatt installed destroys 5.28 jobs on average elsewhere in the economy: 8.99 by photoelectric, 4.27 by wind energy, 5.05 by mini-hydro.
Take money away from small business (taxes) and piss it away on a feel-good project like PV and you are certainly going to have a major effect on the economy. The small business will not be able to grow or to hire more people so there is an overall job loss for each "unit" of alt.energy deployed.
Thank you! May I have another:
16. The high cost of electricity due to the green job policy tends to drive the relatively most electricity-intensive companies and industries away, seeking areas where costs are lower. The example of Acetonic is just such a case.
And one more:
18. These schemes create serious �bubble� potential, as Spain is now discovering. The most paradigmatic bubble case can be found in the photo voltaic industry. Even with subsidy schemes leaving the mean sale price of electricity generated from solar photo voltaic power 7 times higher than the mean price of the pool, solar failed even to reach 1% of Spain�s total electricity production in 2008.
And don't get me started on the
Department of Education. It
only began operation in 1980. Another thing to thank Jimmy Carter for -- the moron. It now has 5,000 people with the 2010 budget projected to be $56B (the 2009 budget under Bush was $32B and 2011 projected is $71B).
And where is it enumerated in the United States Constitution that Education is a Federal responsibility? I thought this was a State's Right -- if Delaware wants to try some radical new educational program and it flops, the other states can look at the results and add that to their
do not try list. If it succeeds amazingly, they can ring up the Delaware Department of Education and inquire about course materials. It is that simple.
Oh yes:
Watermelon Environmentalist = Green on the outside, Marxist Red on the inside...
Posted by DaveH at September 24, 2010 8:08 PM