FRESNO, Calif. - After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama's $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected.
In Indiana, state-trained workers flubbed insulation jobs. In Alaska, Wyoming and the District of Columbia, the program has yet to produce a single job or retrofit one home. And in California, a state with nearly 37 million residents, the program at last count had created 84 jobs.
The program was a hallmark of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a way to shore up the economy while encouraging people to conserve energy at home. But government rules about how to run what was deemed to be a "shovel-ready" project, including how much to pay contractors and how to protect historic homes during renovations, have thwarted chances at early success, according to an Associated Press review of the program.
Editor's notes: so there you have it. The Liberals with their regressive environmental concerns and lust for over regulation are being defeated by their own policies !! That is the story, here.
Our question is this: how long will it take to see completion of the thousands of "solar farms" Obama talks about and the hundred of thousands of related jobs? We're thinking "never." In California, two solar farms are being proposed for the central/coastal state. We are looking at a 6 to 10 permit process if, in fact, the environmentalists are defeated in their opposition to such farms -- jds.
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