$2.3 Billion for Clean Energy Jobs

[Overstreet]

By Julianne Pepitone, staff reporterJanuary 8, 2010: 5:03 PM ET

..........Advantage was given to "shovel-ready" projects -- those that have state and local permits in place and are ready to go, senior officials said. ..........

Sounds like start up but not really if the projects are already permited "shovel ready".

[BridgeTroll]

Slow down Faye... I'm still trying to figure out your definition of "corporate welfare" which you say you are against.  If you are for "corporate welfare" for start ups but against "corporate welfare" for profitable companies just say so.

Faye?

[FayeforCure]

Slow down Faye... I'm still trying to figure out your definition of "corporate welfare" which you say you are against.  If you are for "corporate welfare" for start ups but against "corporate welfare" for profitable companies just say so.

Faye?

Yeah, giving corporate welfare to hugely profitable companies is like giving major amounts of foodstamps to a millionaire. It's a HUGE waste of monies.

Start-ups that are well-screened and vitally important in terms of innovation and our nation's economic sustainability, should be nurtured to allow them to grow to the point where economies of scale are feasible. That way we won't lag so much behind China and Europe in terms of reaping the benefits of solar, wind and geothermal energy production.

http://www.our-energy.com/energy_facts/geothermal_energy_facts.html

That is what's called government INVESTMENT in our nation's infrastructure, similar to the economic value of government investment in our nation's highway system in the 1950s. President Wight Eisenhower justified the project through the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 as essential to American security.

Green Recovery: A New Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy
Source: Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Helen Scharber, Center for American Progress, September 9, 2008

From an article:
A new report released today shows that the United States can create 2 million jobs over two years by investing in a rapid green economic recovery program.

The new report shows that, in addition to creating 2 million jobs nationwide over two years, this $100 billion green economic recovery package would:

• Create nearly four times more jobs than spending the same amount of money within the oil industry and 300,000 more jobs than a similar amount of spending directed toward household consumption.
• Create roughly triple the number of good jobs--paying at least $16 dollars an hour--as spending the same amount of money within the oil industry.
• Bolster employment especially in construction and manufacturing. Construction employment has fallen from 8 million to 7.2 million jobs over the past two years due to the housing bubble collapse. The Green Recovery program can, at the least, bring back these lost 800,000 construction jobs.

The report is accompanied by state-by-state fact sheets showing the potential impact on each state in terms of investment and new jobs.

http://www.afscmeinfocenter.org/infrastructure/?limit=10&offset=40

[BridgeTroll]

Still not answering I see... but from your responce I am guessing you are for corporate welfare as long as they are not currently profitable, new, well screened, innovative, and green.

Am I right or just confused...?