Joe Biden's Green Math

Vice-President Joe Biden says the $150 billion dollars that the government is investing along with $500 million in stimulus money for "green jobs" will make you rich.  And thanks to his inability to calculate math properly, unions see the path to green as well.  That's a lot of green dollar bills coming from new union members making $50 an hour according to the VP.

Last Friday, at a summit in Philadelphia, Vice-President Joe Biden said people who make $20 per hour before a green jobs training program can make $50 per hour after.  He says that, on average, the clean-energy jobs pay 10 to 20 percent more than similar work outside the field.

Let me get out my abacus and do some calculating here...10% of $20 is $2 and $20% of $20 is $4, so move that over, carry the one and hey that's not $50, it's $22 to $24.  Missed it by that much...VP genius.

Now, let's see my wind and solar stocks are tanking because those companies have cut staff and stalled new projects.  Why? Because the credit crisis has tied up all the money and no banks are able to invest in renewable energy.  Nice going...

And comments in the press like this don't help, "Even if there's trouble in the short term, jobs are needed to fight climate change and spur economic growth."--CNN article.

Wow, here's your diploma Timmy, and now look on Monster.com for the jobs titled "Fight Climate Change paying $50 per hour."  Don't forget that the construction on any green industry projects receiving federal funding has to be done by union construction workers per mandates already executed by Obama, thus cutting out millions of existing nonunion construction employees.

So that 10 to 20 percent extra that math-wiz Biden promised, well that might cover your dues money that you will owe to all the unions controlling this massive "green" shell game.  It seems like the unions and its 16 million members will benefit way before the 160 million workers that actually make up the middle class.