Mike posted about this on Saturday, but I was reading an article this morning and came across the most amazing point.
"It's a smart thing to do for the economy and a strategically wonderful thing to do for the environment," said David Foster, executive director of the Blue Green Alliance, a partnership between the Sierra Club and United Steelworkers that works to develop green jobs. His group points to a University of Massachusetts report earlier this fall that said a $100 billion investment in clean technology could create 2 million new jobs in the next two years.
"It leads us down the path for energy independence," he said. "It's a historic opportunity."
That's 1/7 of the bank bailout, or roughly 10 months in Iraq to create 2 million new jobs. I think Obama needs to get rolling on this while he's got support in congress. Can't we inaugurate him now.
Green New Deal
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Amen brother! It can't happen fast enough. It always amazes me that we can spend a trillion dollars putting out fires like Iraq and Wall Street, but we can't invest, that's INVEST in our future. I say invest, because we'll actually get something positive out of the monetary outlay.
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