Quote Originally Posted by Total_Blender View Post
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Van Jones resigned in September 2009, and a replacement for him has not been named, so I don't see what the "Green Jobs Czar" has to do with any of the contracts that have been handed out. One might even say that had Van Jones been able to do the job he was appointed to that the situation might have been different and the turbines would be sourced using as more US labor.

2.) You left out the part of the article that discusses how the US only has 2 companies that can produce wind turbines, and that those two companies also contract a lot of their manufacturing to foreign companies. Not to mention one of the companies not selected is GE, the owner of MSNBC. If GE/MSNBC is in cahoots with the socialists/czars/welfare cheats in the current administration, why wouldn't they GE be chosen for the contract?

3.) It makes sense to use foreign contractors who can produce tested/reliable equipment to get the ball rolling on wind power. Set up a few wind farms as a trial to see how the infrastructure works so that we know what we are doing when we go into the manufacturing phase for ourselves.

4.) The guy says "But that's in addition to 2,000 manufacturing jobs -- many of them in China," but he doesn't say all 2,000 manufacturing jobs are in China. Also, even if all 2,000 jobs are in China its not really that big of a deal when you consider what the average Chinese manufacturing worker gets paid, which is about $100 a month. We're getting a bargain
Fact: The contracts were setup long before Van Jones resigned. Of course, that does not mean that he personally picked them, signed the contracts, etc. I'm not blaming him, just pointing out that this is happening exactly as it was predicted and warned about, but Congress did not make provisions to prevent it.

Fact: We have wind turbine technology that works here. We make wind turbines here in the US. Go out to Texas and drive to California on I-10. There are lots of wind farms there.

Fact: They are sending large amounts of American taxpayer money to foreign countries to create jobs in those countries. Those jobs pay their local workers. Their local workers do not spend in large amounts on US produced goods. Bluntly, that is plucking money out of the American public's pockets, and giving it away to foreign governments.

You really don't seem to understand world economics. Or you are just blindly ignoring it.