22 Sep
Spain’s Green Jobs have FAILED so why is Obama Praising them and Copying them?
Going Green/Alternative Energy has failed in SPAIN and yet the Democrats in the Congress, Senate and even the Democrat President are copying this failed plan.
Spain has over an 18% Un Employment Rate and the Green Jobs didn’t create JOBS they added to the UN EMPLOYMENT RATE.
WHY?
Why can’t the Democrats in our Government use our Natural Resourse and stop going with a FAILED PLAN?
Below is the LINK:
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2009/06/24/will24.ART_ART_06-24-09_A11_MLE94UP.html?sid=101
Let’s not envy Spain’s green jobs
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:00 AM
By George F. Will
Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating "green jobs" in "alternative energy" even though Spain’s unemployment rate is 18.1 percent — more than double the European Union average — partly because of spending on such jobs?
Calzada, 36, an economics professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, has produced a report that, if true, is inconvenient for the Obama administration’s green agenda.
Calzada says Spain’s torrential spending — no other nation has so aggressively supported production of electricity from renewable sources — on wind farms and other forms of alternative energy has indeed created jobs. But Calzada’s report concludes that they often are temporary and have received 2,000 to 0,000 each in subsidies — wind industry jobs cost even more, .4 million each. And each new job entails the loss of 2.2 other jobs that are either lost or not created in other industries because of the political allocation of capital. Calzada says the creation of jobs in alternative energy has subtracted about 110,000 jobs from elsewhere in Spain’s economy.
The president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was asked about the report’s contention that the political diversion of capital into green jobs has cost Spain jobs. The White House transcript contained this exchange:
Gibbs: "It seems weird that we’re importing wind turbine parts from Spain in order to build — to meet renewable energy demand here if that were even remotely the case."
Questioner: "Is that a suggestion that his study is simply flat wrong?"
Gibbs: "I haven’t read the study, but I think, yes."
Questioner: "Well, then. (Laughter.)"
Actually, what is weird is this idea: A sobering report about Spain’s experience must be false because otherwise the behavior of some American importers, seeking to cash in on the U.S. government’s promotion of wind power, might be participating in an economically unproductive project.
It is true Calzada has come to conclusions that he, as a libertarian, finds congenial. And his study was supported by a like-minded think tank (the Institute for Energy Research, for which this columnist has given a paid speech). Still, it is notable that, rather than refute his report, many Spanish critics have impugned his patriotism for faulting something for which Spain was praised by Obama and others.
You can find similar conclusions in "Yellow Light on Green Jobs," a report by Republican Sen. Kit Bond, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy.
What matters most is not that reports such as Calzada’s and the Republicans’ are right in every particular. It is, however, hardly counterintuitive that politically driven investments are economically counterproductive. Indeed, environmentalists with the courage of their convictions should argue that the point of such investments is to subordinate market rationality to the higher agenda of planetary salvation.
Still, one can be agnostic about both reports while being dismayed by the frequency with which such findings are ignored simply because they question policies that are so invested with righteousness that methodical economic reasoning about their costs and benefits seems unimportant.
For fervent believers in governments’ abilities to control the climate and in the urgent need for them to do so, believing is seeing: They see, through their ideological lenses, governments’ green spending as always paying for itself. This is a free-lunch faith comparable to that of those conservatives who believe tax cuts always pay for themselves by stimulating compensating revenues from economic growth.
Windmills are iconic in the land of Don Quixote, whose tilting at them became emblematic of comic futility. Spain’s new windmills are neither amusing nor emblematic of policies America should emulate.
Posted by William F on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Because his goal is to get America to fail so we can be absorbed into a new global government.
Posted by Captain Awesome on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Because only Democrats are dumb enough to tank the economy in order to make a power grab and line the pockets of their cronies.
Posted by Healthy Person on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr8yyvxcMzM&feature=related
Posted by Jared (RIP MJ) on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
What a compelling argument. I will look into it.
Posted by regular american on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Exactly. Obama also praised Schawrzenagger and Calif. for good leadership . What’s up w. that ?
Posted by subwm4bush on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
They have been working here. We have a lot of new windmills already up and they are being developed by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. CAPITALISM!!!
Posted by Darwin on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
George Will, a shill for the Republicanazi Party, is not a good source for facts.
Posted by Proud Dittohead on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
HE DOESN’T CARE! Don’t you get it? He is doing what HE wants to do, not what is best for our country. It’s the old saying, "don’t confuse me with the facts!"
Posted by cap on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Why dont you move to Spain and repair their problems….?
Posted by goo_head_83 on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
They aren’t counting on people like you knowing how to do research. Good job.
Posted by Coty on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
They only failed cause of Bush.
Posted by old_quilt on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
He is trying to cripple the nation and take over, make us totally depend on the government for everything ! Wake up folks the road to hard core socialism is paved with this bill ! Congress hasn’t even had time to read it it’s 1400 pages and they got it last night !
Posted by DAR on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
You are correct. Two lost for every one gained and all gained heavily subsidized.
Call your reps U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202)224-3121
Posted by GlobalWarming on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
WOW! You must be getting paid good to write all that!
Posted by Stinky Joe on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Libbies, when they discover they are traveling in the WRONG direction, STEP ON THE GAS.
Posted by Kristien on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
United states doesn’t need to copy anything from anywhere.
If this plan is the copy of Spain’s "Green jobs" so its going apply here on US.We don’t need failed stuff.President Obama has lots of plan behind this plan.
Posted by Sean on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Why is the big question, what do the liberals get out of failure
Posted by krollohare2 on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
The Dems want the economy to fail wholesale. The first economic crash didn’t do enough. They’re going to cause a 2nd crash in the stock market, at least another 3000 points. Its going to happen.
With unemployment rising to insane levels, they will revel in more spending until we’re bankrupt and then try and reform the system to fix it so that they will always be in power.
Don’t you get it? They don’t want America to succeed, they haven’t for over 20 years.
They want Americans to be dependent upon whatever it is that the government gives them, just like Communism in the old Soviet Union.
These people need to be put out of power. If I were you I’d vote against them in 2010 and put them out to pasture already before they do any more critical damage.
Posted by Erich M on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Cap and trade was designed, tested and proven here in the United States, as a program within the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. The success of this program led The Economist magazine to crown it "probably the greatest green success story of the past decade." (July 6, 2002).
The market-based approach enshrined in the U.S. Acid Rain program has demonstrated that environmental protections need not compete with economic well-being.
Markets provide greater environmental effectiveness than command-and-control regulation because they turn pollution reductions into marketable assets. In doing so, this system creates tangible financial rewards for environmental performance.
Because cap-and-trade gives pollution reductions a value in the marketplace, the system prompts technological and process innovations that reduce pollution down to or beyond required levels. This point is not theoretical; experience has shown these results.
An active cap-and-trade market enables those who can reduce pollution cheaply to earn a return on their pollution reduction investment by selling extra allowances. It enables those who can’t reduce pollution as cheaply to purchase allowances at a lower cost than the cost of reducing their own emissions. It enables all participants to meet the total emissions cap cost-effectively. And it gives all emitters incentives to innovate to find the least-cost solutions for total pollution control.
Posted by Paul Grass on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
0bama ia an idiot when t comes to being a decider! He ia good for a campaign promise later to be broken and a celb but thats it, he does not think things through
Posted by Mr. Wolf on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Since I read your question i have been reading about the unemployment rate in Spain and the only person that contribute it to green jobs the man that wrote that editorial. All reports I have read so far states it is because of the world wide recession due to the global economic collapse.
Posted by Will on 22.09.09 at 9:56 pm
Wills can’t even confirm that the report is true. Considering Will’s conservative anti Obama stance. He seems to be more than willing to find anything that remotely slams all things Obama. When and if this report by Calzada can be substantiated I will take note. At this point it is still nothing but conservative rhetoric.