Question by : What do you think of these GREEN JOB myths?
Myth 1: Everyone understands what a "green job" is.
Fact 1: No standard definition of a "green job" exists.
Myth 2: Creating green jobs will boost productive employment.
Fact 2: Green jobs estimates in these oft-quoted studies include huge numbers of clerical, bureaucratic, and administrative positions that do not produce goods and services for consumption.
Myth 3: Green jobs forecasts are reliable.
Fact 3: The green jobs studies made estimates using poor economic models based on dubious assumptions.
Myth 4: Green jobs promote employment growth.
Fact 4: By promoting more jobs instead of more productivity, the green jobs described in the literature actually encourage low-paying jobs in less desirable conditions. Economic growth cannot be ordered by Congress or by the United Nations (UN). Government interference in the economy – such as restricting successful technologies in favor of speculative technologies favored by special interests – will generate stagnation.
Myth 5: The world economy can be remade by reducing trade and relying on local production and reduced consumption without dramatically decreasing our standard of living.
Fact 5: History shows that individual nations cannot produce everything its citizens need or desire. People and countries have talents that allow specialization in products and services that
make them ever more efficient, lower-cost producers, thereby enriching all people.
Myth 6: Government mandates are a substitute for free markets.
Fact 6: Companies react more swiftly and efficiently to the demands of their customers/markets, than to cumbersome government mandates.
Myth 7: Wishing for technological progress is sufficient.
Fact 7: Some technologies preferred by the green jobs studies are not capable of efficiently reaching the scale necessary to meet today's demands.
source…watch the video..its under oath…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2012/06/07/rep-issa-exposes-the-obama-administration-green-jobs-scam/
Best answer:
Answer by Scooterpoop, esquire
Today Darrell Issa drilled Eric Holder on exactly what a “green job” was. It will likely be all over the news.
Bus driver: yes
Bus driver mechanic: yes
Bicycle shop salesman: yes
Garbage truck recycler: yes
Antique dealer: yes
(The antique dealer is considered a “green job” because they recycle old stuff.)
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