Creating Jobs Is The New Green

I’ve noticed a new trend with our wonderful Governor. Anything she proposes now is ‘going to create jobs’. Case and point:

Granholm Signs Legislation Authorizing Nearly $2 Billion to Create Jobs, Protect Citizens

So, how exactly is she going to create jobs? Is she going to construct real coal fired or nuclear power plants that will employ people long term and make our state more competitive? Lower corporate and property taxes putting more money in consumers and employers hands? No, she is taking inflationary dollars from the Obama mafia and is going to spend $900 million dollars on public education, and other nonsense:

$900 million for public education in Michigan, including services to at-risk students, students with disabilities, and homeless students;
 
$248 million for sewer and drinking water infrastructure improvements and other environmental protection programs;
 
$235 million for worker training across Michigan, including additional funding for the state’s No Worker Left Behind program;
 
$190 million for community-based service programs and food assistance to help citizens who are being directly impacted by the struggling economy;
 
$244 million for weatherization programs to create jobs while helping citizens save money through energy efficiency improvements to their homes; and
 
$48 million for public safety programs, including efforts to protect children from internet predators and provide services to crime victims.

Come on Jenny. Taking the Obama money and paying off the teacher unions with a cool $900 million is not going to help the state. The rest of the spending is flat out stupid. Weatherizing homes? There are already plenty of qualified people out there that do that kind of work, and I really don’t think it’s an expanding market at this time.

Adding to the weatherizing work force is not going to help out of work electrical engineers. They are going to seize on the first opportunity out of state and leave. With their family’s. I thought that highly skilled workers leaving the state was a problem?

So, Governor, I ask again. How is this two billion dollars of inflationary spending going to help our state?

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