Green jobs equals green failure for Obama

President Obama promised that green jobs would pull us out of the Great Recession. Uh, where are the jobs? Politico elaborates:

President Barack Obama heads to an energy plant in North Carolina on Monday to talk once again about the job-creating power of a green economy.

The catch? Nearly three years into Obama's presidency, the White House can't point to much solid evidence that significant numbers of Americans are scoring the green jobs the president has been touting.

Monthly Labor Department employment reports say nothing about the new clean energy workforce, while an effort to document how many Americans actually make a living in the "green collar" field may not be done by November 2012.

Obama's Council of Economic Advisers suggests 225,000 clean energy jobs were either created or preserved through the third quarter of 2010 thanks to more than $80 billion in the economic stimulus package. But those are estimates at best.

The nationwide unemployment rate is creeping up again--it's now 9.1 percent. The White House promised that the unemployment rate would not exceed 8 percent when it was hawking its stimulus in 2009.

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