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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Gov. Doyle's Recovery Continuing In Wisconsin
He set the table for Walker, and the numbers would have been even better if the Milwaukee-Madison Amtrak line were under construction, and if Walker-canceled wind farms were also being built.
It is disappointing that so many people had projects shut down so the road builders and coal companies can fleece Wisconsin. It is amazing how unfactual AM talk radio is.
It's also disappointing how many people have bought into the hype that wind power is solution to every power generation question. Wind is only a part of the solution. Also people like the author of this blog are dead set against mining the raw materials that are needed to build wind farms.(ie iron, copper, aluminum etc.)
No one is saying wind power is the solution. We are saying it is part of the solution. It employes people with good-paying engineering, manufacturing, installation and maintenance jobs.
And yes, it receives subsidies, just like the oil, gas and other energy sectors receive, also.
A benefit also is that the energy generated is free of air pollution.
Very true- could have been upwards of 10,000 thousand more jobs with high speed rails and wind farms. Walker is very short sighted. Wind is not the only solution but one of them. We can't continue to rape our earth to provide power.
Ah - to improve our air quality from an F to maybe a C? We can only dream until the misguided road hugging, anti-green energy "leader" Walker gets done with his short sighted Koch drive agenda. What a tragedy! Recall him when the timing is perfect!
Let's not kid ourselves. Those jobs in the last month were in large part in low-wage, part-time, seasonal-style work like restaurants and janitorial services. Not exactly built for the long-term.
And that's if they were truly created at all- the workers' survey showed a loss of 12,500 and Wisconsin has seen its new jobless claims go up by more than 25%(3,000) over the last 2 weeks.
Keep smoking your weed and watching the existing boondoggled wind turbines going around, (well that is if they are working).
ReplyDeleteMaybe if you watch them long enough you will wise up!
Why people use their time to read things they do not like is a blogging mystery to me. Is the comment posting carthartic enough?
ReplyDeleteIt is disappointing that so many people had projects shut down so the road builders and coal companies can fleece Wisconsin. It is amazing how unfactual AM talk radio is.
ReplyDeleteIt's also disappointing how many people have bought into the hype that wind power is solution to every power generation question. Wind is only a part of the solution. Also people like the author of this blog are dead set against mining the raw materials that are needed to build wind farms.(ie iron, copper, aluminum etc.)
ReplyDeleteNo one is saying wind power is the solution. We are saying it is part of the solution. It employes people with good-paying engineering, manufacturing, installation and maintenance jobs.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, it receives subsidies, just like the oil, gas and other energy sectors receive, also.
A benefit also is that the energy generated is free of air pollution.
Very true- could have been upwards of 10,000 thousand more jobs with high speed rails and wind farms. Walker is very short sighted. Wind is not the only solution but one of them. We can't continue to rape our earth to provide power.
ReplyDeleteAh - to improve our air quality from an F to maybe a C? We can only dream until the misguided road hugging, anti-green energy "leader" Walker gets done with his short sighted Koch drive agenda. What a tragedy! Recall him when the timing is perfect!
ReplyDeleteLet's not kid ourselves. Those jobs in the last month were in large part in low-wage, part-time, seasonal-style work like restaurants and janitorial services. Not exactly built for the long-term.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's if they were truly created at all- the workers' survey showed a loss of 12,500 and Wisconsin has seen its new jobless claims go up by more than 25%(3,000) over the last 2 weeks.