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发帖数: 29846 | 1 June 21, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Well, after the news from the Obama administration of its “highly
successful 1603 tax program” the fantastic program that is responsible for
successfully creating literally dozens of jobs at a mere cost of 10 billion
tax dollars, why, I don’t want to hear you naysayers out there dissing the
big guy again!
The Washington Free Beacon brings us the good news of this great Obama
success having received a statement saying:
“The highly successful 1603 tax program has played a critical role in
the dramatic expansion of America’s renewable energy industry over the past
three years – supporting more than 30,000 renewable energy projects,
leveraging more than $25 billion in private sector investments and creating
tens of thousands of jobs in installation, construction and operation, as
well as up and down the manufacturing supply chain,” said DOE spokesperson
Jen Stutsman. “This program has helped to build infrastructure that will
spur economic development and job creation in the country over the long-term
and ensure the United States can compete in the global clean energy economy
.”
That settles it, right?
Well, let’s see how U.S. Representative Cory Gardner (R, Colo.) added up
the costs of this “success” at a recent House hearing.
Gardner asked the administration’s representative how many jobs were
created and was told 355 over each of the last two years.
“I just want to know how many jobs were created,” Gardner said during
the hearing.
“If you’re looking at the direct jobs, this one estimate has direct
jobs created at 3,666 in the construction phase, and direct jobs created at
355,” Sherlock said. “Direct jobs would just be the construction jobs and
the ongoing operations and maintenance jobs. But if you wanted to look at
the supporting jobs in other industries then you’d want to look at the
other figures.”
“So for direct jobs — just if we look at the first year, this is
average jobs per year, it’s 355 jobs per year — in two years, 355 jobs
created a year, $10 billion?” Gardner asked.
Man. I’m surprised there is any unemployment left at all with all this “
success” in creating jobs Obama is celebrating.
Hmmmm. Maybe this great volume of 355 new jobs the Big O created will help
offset the job losses he’s forced on the medical community already?
Probably not, eh? |
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