Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:22:36 AM
What Obama got wrong with his initial stimulus packadge and the program buried within to seal up your home was that he didn't force it. Over at
Planet Gore, we get the tally of green home fixes that have happened so far, which is not many.
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.
You mean to tell me a government program is not working? How is that possible? Especially one that the chosen one came up with. And we are going to trust them with our healthcare? Oh yeah, thats right, they didn't give us a choice. Which is why his green jobs program didn't work; Obama and congress didn't force it down our throats.