Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25:54 PM
When talking about job creation, "green" jobs or any other jobs that are government jobs - or rely on government funding - don't count. The only government jobs I'm happy to see more of are police and military ones.
The Left thinks these jobs count because they think jobs are all about providing people with another way of acquiring self-esteem (and, getting women away from the horrible life of actually raising their own kids who made it out of the womb without being aborted).
But the real reasons why more jobs is better than fewer jobs include: 1) they generate wealth; 2) they help provide goods and services. Most government jobs consume wealth or impede the generation of wealth, and don't provide good or services, or at least not ones that couldn't be provided more efficiently and better through free markets.
It is absurd to say - as RINO (and now former) Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger did - that legoslation that hinders legitimate private businesses creates green jobs because it funds the installation of solar panels.
(This is a repost)