Sounds like the ranting of another conservative who thinks the only good job is in the stinking military or the fucking pentagon. To bad 911 did blow the pentagon to smithereens.

check out what a university study from Spain has reported about the economic effect of an aggressive "green" policy.
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Ph.D. Gabriel Calzada Alvarez.
They calculate an average of 2 job losses for each job gained by going green.

It was very hard to read what Neal wrote with a visual of his wrinkled white butt in my head. I think I'm gonna be sick.

The unemployment line isn't just for Philosophy majors anymore.

What will be even better is the ones with 'Green' degrees and absolutely no job experience. You know, parents paid for everything their entire life. Never had to earn money for a car, gas, or insurance. Joined a frat or sorority and partied during college. Never worked a day in their life - you know the type.

That reminds me of the college graduate who couldn't find a job and finally gave in to working at a restaurant. It was closing time and the owner told their new employee to mop the floor. The newbie protested, "But I am a college graduate!". The owner promptly apologized and said, "Let me show you how."

Not to worry though... I am sure there is a government union who will welcome them with open arms.

Now, now, let us be fair. The resumes won't be thrown in the trash!

They'll be put in the recycling bin!

Hey don't look at me I'm a CJ major, and a Libertarian, the level of liberalism on my campus drives me nuts!

Obama made much out ot the notion of creating "millions of good paying jobs" in the promised new "Green Economy" during his campaign. He and his administration now seem bent on "going green" with a kind of religious zeal with no regard to the consequences of such a move. While its true that some jobs will be created in the term as a result of government spending at least in the medium term, the real question is at what cost? As noted in Nealz Nuze yesterday, a recent Madrid based study took a look at the Spanish experience with alternate energy sources and finds the opportunity costs for so called "green jobs" wanting.

The author of the Madrid study, Gabriel Calzada, showed that, ".. For every new position that depends on energy price supports, at least 2.2 jobs in other industries will disappear." How's that for a new green jobs program slogan? Wait, It gets better... How about the fact that "..The premiums paid for solar, biomass, wave and wind power - - which are charged to consumers in their bills -- translated into a $774,000 cost for each Spanish “green job” created since 2000, noted the author" Why not just mail a check for ~$750K to each prospective employee and call it even? Folks, you can't make this stuff up.

All this type spending for a notion, that is scientifically unsubstantiated, that man-made CO2 is the primary cause of so-called "global warming". For one to believe in it one must believe in three basic criteria, first that "global warming" is real, second that it is caused by man's activities, and lastly that it will have catastrophic effects on the earth and on mankind.

That's a tall order for one that has any kind of scientific bent. Fortunately for those that are proponents of this notion, their fervent beliefs and not science serves as the basis for a "virtual religion", one that has morphed into that wonderfully nebulous term called "climate change".

These new climate religionists ignore any evidence that does not fit their orthodoxy, specifically any relationship of the earth's warming to the sun's activities. They completely ignore the fact the sun, in the last few years, has been in its quiet modest in the last ~100 yrs, with virtually no sunspots even today. The sun's current "relatively low output" correlates very well with the world's record cold temperatures and record snowfall in the last few years.

When it comes to so called global warming, it really still is pretty much all about that big yellow thing in the sky.

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination." ... Mark Twain - Author / Humourist

Oh, those jobs will eventually be there, just not in any time span useful to those going to college now.

We've actually seen this before. In the late 70's and early 80's everyone was predicting a huge explosion in IT jobs (sorry, it was just known as "computer programming" back then). Sometimes it seemed that half the population of the college I was going to was shifting their major from whatever to "computer programming." Four years later, no jobs. When the explosion in jobs actually occurred several years later (the early 90's), these folks found that their degrees were stale and they needed just as much school as someone who got a straight science or math degree to catch up.

In the meantime, they had been working low paying and/or menial jbs to get by, where those who had straight degrees were working better jobs.

Take the good advice given below. Don't get a specialized "green" degree, get a science or math degree.

....investing huge amounts of money on an absolute scam. Why won't these poor bastards read some research from some people who oppose this stuff...and actually consider sun activity to be a factor. *sigh*

A green studies degree will be as worthless as ethnic studies, women's studies and sociology degrees. How useful will it be to the proud owner when the next ice age is upon us?

Come on Neal. You know these people will just end up with government jobs. There is no way the private sector is going to hire people with no useful business skills.

It also doesn't help that none of these student's parents are stepping up to the plate to give their kids a little something called a 'reality check'. Fortunately I am one of those parents that raised someone who will be an achiever and know that they will get out of college in a couple years with skills that will lead to a promising future.

Unsustainable jobs for "sustainable" energy. Government at work.

I am a civil engineer who has been working a plethra of "Green" type jobs. From Geothermal Energy to a Ethanol Refinery to a Solar plant. These are up and coming right now. But if anyone reading this is considering getting a "green" degree let me give you some advice. Get a degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Civil/Environmental engineering. You can use these degrees to get into the "green" field but if there is no opportunity there for you you can easily switch over to another industry. Please don't pigeon hole yourself with a "green" degree. Be flexible.