Well, Obama has hit a level of stupidity that surprises even me. And that is not an easy thing to to do given that I believe his "spend your way out of a recession" economic policies are totally idiotic to begin with. But check this out:
The Obama administration decides to spend millions of dollars from his massive pork barrel spendulous bill to build a "clean energy wind farm in Texas". Well it turns our that building this wind farm will create 2,000 to 3,000 manufacturing jobs - in China. Yep, all of those wind turbines are going to be built in China. And how many permanent jobs will it create in Texas? A grand total of thirty (30).
Is it any wonder that we have the biggest deficits in America's history and our national unemployment rate is 10.2% and climbing?
Irish Mike
OK folks, our phone lines are open and the tenth caller will win... The Nobel Peace Prize!
On Nov 8, 12:05 am, "K9way" <ad14...@webnntp.invalid> wrote:
> On Nov 7 2009 11:45 PM, Irish Mike wrote:
> WRONG AGAIN DICKHEAD .. THE TURBINES ARE MADE IN NORTH TEXAS
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I'm pretty sure just the blades are made in North Texas. I know they cause traffic troubles whenever they are going down US 82. I don't know where the actual generators are built.
> WRONG AGAIN DICKHEAD .. THE TURBINES ARE MADE IN NORTH TEXAS
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I'm pretty sure just the blades are made in North Texas. I know they cause traffic troubles whenever they are going down US 82. I don't know where the actual generators are built. *** Someone didn't know how many american jobs it would create either....
In a blinding flash of protectionism, New York Senator Charles Schumer has written a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, asking Chu to block federal funding for development of a huge $1.5 billion Texas wind farm which will be build using turbines manufactured in China. The project is expected to create 330 jobs in Texas and 800 jobs in the Chinese factory which will build the turbines. "The purpose of the Recovery Act was to jump start the economy to create and save jobs - American jobs," Schumer wrote. "American taxpayer dollars should not be used to finance those Chinese jobs."
Walt Horniday, president of one of the U. S. partners in the project, responded, "This project will not take place without the planned benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Any characterization of this planned project as anything other than an economic development lifeline to the wind industry during tough economic times is just inaccurate."
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn of Texas used the wind farm project as one example of a failure of Obama administration economic policies. "This just shows how ridiculous this whole stimulus proposal was," Cornyn said, acknowledging, however, that "Texas would like to have the investment." Cornyn seems to forget that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was crafted in Congress, and apparently passed without much thought by Senators and Representatives as to what American businesses would do with the $787 billion they were doling out
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