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One thing might be worse than the Obama administration's stimulus funds used for worthless projects and near-bankrupt schemes. That would be stimulus funds taken out of the economy then left sitting there unused. Among the worst offenders are the so-called "green initiatives." By October of this year, about 45% of the $35.2 billion set aside under Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had actually been used.

The prissy Barack Obama has probably never actually seen an instrument as crude as a shovel, so it's likely he had no idea what he was selling when he talked about all that money that was going to go to shovel-ready projects. He just loves the color green. Greenbacks taken from the taxpayers to produce green energy that won't happen for two or three decades. The only shoveling he has ever done is strictly metaphorical. It has something to do with male cattle manure.

You don't have to take my word for it. Department of Labor General Inspector Elliott Lewis and Department of Energy General Inspector Gregory Friedman provided the facts to a House panel investigating green job creation. Lewis testified that his agency received $500 million in stimulus funds for its Employment and Training Administration for competitive grants for research, labor exchange and job training projects to prepare workers for careers in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries (Green Jobs).

The problem is that there are no jobs ready for the trainees. In addition, much of the training would have been for jobs that don't even yet exist. So training for jobs which don't exist in industries which have not yet been developed has been given to 52,762 enrollees (42% of the projected 124,893 jobs). 40% of the funds set aside for assessment, case management and job placement have been used. 10% of those trained have actually found jobs, and of those, only a small percentage remained employed after six months. And that doesn't even count the out-of-work Solyndra employees.

Over at the Department of Energy, the situation is very similar. In its case, about 45% of its stimulus funds have not been spent. Friedman suggests that in its situation, the state and local governments have been unable to create or even find jobs for potential recipients, and adds that the infrastructure and personnel were not in place to handle the federal pie-in-the-sky proposals. He put it very simply: "There are few shovel-ready jobs. The federal funds allocated are vast, but state and local resources are few, so he compared it to "putting a lawn hose on a fire hydrant."

Friedman says that the majority of grants and loan guarantees were set aside for green technology programs or research, including energy efficiency and renewable energy and "environmental management." He also called them "high risk areas." Like the train to nowhere, maybe? Of the funds spent, they weren't spent well. Friedman estimates that of the nearly $5 billion set aside for weatherization programs, much of it was wasted. "The weatherization work was often of poor quality. In a recent audit performed at the state level, 9 out of 17 weatherized homes we visited failed inspections because of substandard workmanship."

Whatever it is that Obama is shoveling, he's shoveling it against the tide.
So Much For Shovel-Ready Projects
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One thing might be worse than the Obama administration's stimulus funds used for worthless projects and near-bankrupt schemes. That would be stimulus funds taken out of the economy then left sitting there unused. Among the worst offenders are the so-called "green initiatives." By October of this year, about 45% of the $35.2 billion set aside under Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had actually been used.

The prissy Barack Obama has probably never actually seen an instrument as crude as a shovel, so it's likely he had no idea what he was selling when he talked about all that money that was going to go to shovel-ready projects. He just loves the color green. Greenbacks taken from the taxpayers to produce green energy that won't happen for two or three decades. The only shoveling he has ever done is strictly metaphorical. It has something to do with male cattle manure.

You don't have to take my word for it. Department of Labor General Inspector Elliott Lewis and Department of Energy General Inspector Gregory Friedman provided the facts to a House panel investigating green job creation. Lewis testified that his agency received $500 million in stimulus funds for its Employment and Training Administration for competitive grants for research, labor exchange and job training projects to prepare workers for careers in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries (Green Jobs).

The problem is that there are no jobs ready for the trainees. In addition, much of the training would have been for jobs that don't even yet exist. So training for jobs which don't exist in industries which have not yet been developed has been given to 52,762 enrollees (42% of the projected 124,893 jobs). 40% of the funds set aside for assessment, case management and job placement have been used. 10% of those trained have actually found jobs, and of those, only a small percentage remained employed after six months. And that doesn't even count the out-of-work Solyndra employees.

Over at the Department of Energy, the situation is very similar. In its case, about 45% of its stimulus funds have not been spent. Friedman suggests that in its situation, the state and local governments have been unable to create or even find jobs for potential recipients, and adds that the infrastructure and personnel were not in place to handle the federal pie-in-the-sky proposals. He put it very simply: "There are few shovel-ready jobs. The federal funds allocated are vast, but state and local resources are few, so he compared it to "putting a lawn hose on a fire hydrant."

Friedman says that the majority of grants and loan guarantees were set aside for green technology programs or research, including energy efficiency and renewable energy and "environmental management." He also called them "high risk areas." Like the train to nowhere, maybe? Of the funds spent, they weren't spent well. Friedman estimates that of the nearly $5 billion set aside for weatherization programs, much of it was wasted. "The weatherization work was often of poor quality. In a recent audit performed at the state level, 9 out of 17 weatherized homes we visited failed inspections because of substandard workmanship."

Whatever it is that Obama is shoveling, he's shoveling it against the tide.
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One thing might be worse than the Obama administration's stimulus funds used for worthless projects and near-bankrupt schemes. That would be stimulus funds taken out of the economy then left sitting there unused. Among the worst offenders are the so-called "green initiatives." By October of this year, about 45% of the $35.2 billion set aside under Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had actually been used.

The prissy Barack Obama has probably never actually seen an instrument as crude as a shovel, so it's likely he had no idea what he was selling when he talked about all that money that was going to go to shovel-ready projects. He just loves the color green. Greenbacks taken from the taxpayers to produce green energy that won't happen for two or three decades. The only shoveling he has ever done is strictly metaphorical. It has something to do with male cattle manure.

You don't have to take my word for it. Department of Labor General Inspector Elliott Lewis and Department of Energy General Inspector Gregory Friedman provided the facts to a House panel investigating green job creation. Lewis testified that his agency received $500 million in stimulus funds for its Employment and Training Administration for competitive grants for research, labor exchange and job training projects to prepare workers for careers in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries (Green Jobs).

The problem is that there are no jobs ready for the trainees. In addition, much of the training would have been for jobs that don't even yet exist. So training for jobs which don't exist in industries which have not yet been developed has been given to 52,762 enrollees (42% of the projected 124,893 jobs). 40% of the funds set aside for assessment, case management and job placement have been used. 10% of those trained have actually found jobs, and of those, only a small percentage remained employed after six months. And that doesn't even count the out-of-work Solyndra employees.

Over at the Department of Energy, the situation is very similar. In its case, about 45% of its stimulus funds have not been spent. Friedman suggests that in its situation, the state and local governments have been unable to create or even find jobs for potential recipients, and adds that the infrastructure and personnel were not in place to handle the federal pie-in-the-sky proposals. He put it very simply: "There are few shovel-ready jobs. The federal funds allocated are vast, but state and local resources are few, so he compared it to "putting a lawn hose on a fire hydrant."

Friedman says that the majority of grants and loan guarantees were set aside for green technology programs or research, including energy efficiency and renewable energy and "environmental management." He also called them "high risk areas." Like the train to nowhere, maybe? Of the funds spent, they weren't spent well. Friedman estimates that of the nearly $5 billion set aside for weatherization programs, much of it was wasted. "The weatherization work was often of poor quality. In a recent audit performed at the state level, 9 out of 17 weatherized homes we visited failed inspections because of substandard workmanship."

Whatever it is that Obama is shoveling, he's shoveling it against the tide.

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