State unemployment fund hits bottom

With an unprecedented number of its residents out of work, the state of Minnesota is about to go on a jag of federal borrowing to keep unemployment compensation checks coming.

[Mr Right]

How about the state cutting spending, like LGA?

[LGA Larry]

Mr Right wrote:

How about the state cutting spending, like LGA?

like that'll ever happen...you're not from around here are you?

[Gimme ma stimulation]

Barack Obama said the Waxman-Markey carbon tax would help create "green energy" jobs in the U.S. He is now using taxpayer dollars to fund jobs in Spain.

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/...

Barack Obama sold the Waxman-Markey "American Clean Energy and Security Act" to Congress and the American people by saying that investment in so-called "green energy" would create millions of high-wage American manufacturing jobs. We received an E-mail from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (nonpartisan professional organization) that exposed Barack Obama as a blatant prevaricator who is shamelessly using our tax dollars to create jobs not in the United States but in foreign countries.

We wonder what rank and file union members--not union bosses who, to paraphrase Henry Ford, have never worked in a shop and whose ambition is to never have to work in a shop, but blue collar workers who actually put in eight hours of honest work every day--will do to the Democratic Party when they discover this. We encourage our readers to circulate this article as widely as possible so they will find out. From the September 2 2009 Wall Street Journal, "U.S. Doles Out Grants for Energy Projects,"

But while the wind farms and solar installations are in the U.S., the profits from these projects are flowing mainly to European companies and developers owned by private-equity investors. Iberdrola SA, the Spanish wind-power giant, was awarded $294 million for five projects. Spokesman Keith Grant said the grants are "crucial to pushing ahead" with U.S. wind projects.
Right, Barry, do you want to tell us again how you are going to create millions of "green energy" jobs for American workers? We don't see how giving $294 million to Iberdrola SA will create even one manufacturing job for American workers...



General Motors got 105 million in stimulus funds to help construct a plant to make batteries for the Chevy Volt.

The plant is being built in South Korea.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/...