Jerry Shugart
Well-known member
"Joe Biden unveiled another key pillar of his “build back better” economic revival blueprint on Tuesday, promising to boost growth and create millions of jobs by fast-tracking trillions in clean energy infrastructure spending should he win the White House in November.
Speaking near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee pledged to invest $2 trillion over his first four-year term in office to promote a clean energy economy, advance environmental justice and turbo-charge the nation’s pandemic-ravaged labour market."
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/20...-jobs/?gb=true
Speaking near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee pledged to invest $2 trillion over his first four-year term in office to promote a clean energy economy, advance environmental justice and turbo-charge the nation’s pandemic-ravaged labour market."
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/20...-jobs/?gb=true
That is the same promise given in 2008 by the Obama-Biden administration but it didn't work out too well:
"Three years after Obama launched a push to build a job-creating “green” economy, the White House can say that more than 1 million drafty homes have been retrofitted to lower heating and cooling costs, while energy generation from renewable sources such as wind and solar has nearly doubled since 2008.
But the millions of “green jobs” Obama promised have been slow to sprout, disappointing many who had hoped that the $90 billion earmarked for clean-energy efforts in the recession-fighting federal stimulus package would ease unemployment - still above 8 percent in March.
The high-profile failures of companies that have benefited from federal backing, such as Solyndra and Beacon Power Corp., have given ammunition to Republicans who paint the effort as a costly boondoggle.
They also have targeted the $500 job-training program that aims to train workers for skills they would need in a new “green economy.”
The program’s initial results were so poor that the Labor Department’s inspector general recommended last fall that the agency should return the $327 million that remained unspent.
The numbers have improved somewhat since then, but the department remains far short of its goal of placing 80,000 workers into green jobs by 2013.
By the end of 2011, some 16,092 participants had found new work in a “green” field, according to the Labor Department - roughly one-fifth of its target. The program also helped employed workers upgrade their skills.
Republican Senator Charles Grassley said the program had reached too few workers to be deemed a success.
“The green jobs-training program just didn’t work. It was a poor investment of tax dollars,” Grassley said in a prepared statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-campaign-green-idUSBRE83C08D20120413
Now Biden is peddling this same failed boondoggle to the American public.
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."