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White House: Health, green jobs growing quickly (AP)

AP - Health care and environment-focused jobs will drive a jobs recovery, the White House predicted Monday even as it cautioned that the work will require better training to give workers greater skills. » Full Story on Yahoo! News

the facts do not support this "news release" ...

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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RW

What facts? When the news is bad they don't add it to the article..If it were Bush there would be a long list of negatives.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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What jobs and where? This is the same BS that Obama put out during the campaign. Going green will create millions of jobs and a new health care system will also create millions of jobs. People by the millions bought this crap and voted for this guy. Here's your change and I mean nickels and dimes while the banks, wall street and insurance companies get billions. Enjoy!

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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I love how they're going to talk about the report on Facebook...

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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AP is part of Obamas propaganda machine, this is nothing but bs, it's like Obama saying My economic plan has created or saved 150,000 jobs in May, when the data shows there was 400,000 jobs lost. But you will have kool aid drinkers who will read and believe. There is only one news source who challenges Obama, the rest are propaganda outlets for Obama

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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What happened to those 4 million new jobs Obama promised? Was that just another one of his campaign lies?

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Notice how the story, all of 4 little paragraphs, mentions "the reports PREDICT"? Yeah right. If they couldn't PREDICT the freaking mess we are in and the collapse of our economy, how in the hell are they going to PREDICT accurately when it will bounce back? If they has used the word "HOPE" instead, this article would make sense...but WAIT--that word "HOPE" has now become a JOKE, hasn't it???

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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The world’s industrial nations have pumped unprecedented amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere in the last seven years. During this same period, global temperature charts (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH and RSS) indicate the earth’s temperature to be entering a cooling trend. Clearly, this data contradicts the theory that man-made CO2 is causing global warming.

Based on this inconvenient lack of global warming in the last seven years, it is idiotic for Congress and those who drank the Kool-Aid to rush forward with CO2 legislation that, in all cases, will further burden Americans with higher costs for energy, services and goods. If they want to get us off foreign oil, just say so and focus on more drilling here in the US. If to develop alternative sources for use in fifty to one hundred years that are cheaper and cleaner than our present fuels, then just say so and provide reasonable incentives over an intelligent time frame instead of sending us more Weapons of Mass Deception!

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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The only thing that's growing quickly is the size of Government. If any jobs are being created, they're Government jobs.

We're supposed to believe this propaganda, pushed by Obama and his ilk, and obediently printed by State run media? This is garbage. There is no proof of so-called jobs saved. Let's see the numbers this week, and how they try to spin it.

There's new spin on the stimulus. Now's it's going to take two years to take effect. The purpose of stimulus is to get money into the economy quickly, so it has an immediate effect, of stimulating the economy. Not two years! Recessions normally don't last two years. We're still in this mess, because of Obama's meddling. We would have been on the road to recovery. The private sector isn't hiring, because they have no faith in Obama's policies.

2010 dump incumbents
2012 dump Barry the blamer

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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For all those interested in facts instead of empty rhetoric and baseless opinions, go to the following internet site. It conclusively shows the Earth's temperature to be dropping while CO2 levels have been increasing. Clearly, CO2 has no effect on Earth's temperature one way or another!

http://64.233.169.132/search?q=cache:g
3OSJRDtddsJ:rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2008/10
/22/global-cooling-continues/+global+cooling&hl=
en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=us

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Well, let's see...if by health care they mean they damn flu shot, there might be some increase if people get the damn thing.
My daddy always spread the manure in the spring of the year to green up the pastureland. And with all the bullschit that's being fed us by the government something surely is going green.
Nice try to the author of this article...I don't buy it!

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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The medical field has been understaffed for the last 20 years. This has nothing to do with Obama and his agenda on "health care ". The reason the "green" job are growing is look at all the money be given away to "reasearch and development" it is nothing more than federal welfare like all other grants.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Lies, Lies, and more Lies..........!

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Let's see....AP (Amerikan Pravda) article with a Whitehouse source. Anyone else more than a little skeptical?

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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I find it interesting that everyone here smells the same BS that has always been offensive.
Can we get a stimulus to study the shyt from the media?
It seems to be much more rancid than the pigs in Iowa.
I can't smell those pigs, but this shyt has drifted all the way to South Texas.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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pick a number,any number.In obama land every thing is good.But don't take off the Rose colored glasses.The TRUTH will hurt you dems.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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how much longer can yahoo go on carying water for this "OBOMINATION". I have'nt seen them call him on one damn thing yet! Yahoo news is as much a joke as Obama!

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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the article's title does not match the article information-growing quickly is not the same as growing more quickly compared to the rest of the economy, but after all, you not called the liberal media for nothing! the real question, liberal media-when will you desist being an advocate and try jounalism instead?

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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I am sick, sick of all of Obama insults to the American people's intellect, can't he see from his falling poll # that most people now do not trust one word he has to say, and that we are tired of him trying to shove his crap down our throats. Most Dem's as myself caught on to his garbage after the first month. Even his Town Hall Meetings are fake he has all the questions emailed in to him and he picks the question he wants to answer and then his office calls that person and tells then that their question has been picked the evening before the Town Hall Meeting. He does the same with the Press meetings, that is why you see so few American press called on with the exception of ABC & it Affiliates & they are so deep in his pocket they hurt. Obama we don't believe your press releases!

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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I call BS...there aren't any facts to back this up!

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Let's see. Obama has cap and trade looming, he's taken over GM and demanded higher mileage for autos, and he's just finished a world tour demanding that other countries lower their carbon footprint. These are very noble pursuits for which he should be applauded, but certainly not for any economic reasons. These measures are great for the environment, but absolute economic suicide for the country. There needs to be a balance that Obama's cabinet are completely ignoring. What a shame that the dems finally have the votes and the backing of the country and they're fcuking everything up.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Yay! I bet there are at least 5 new Green Jobs for every 5,000 the cap and trade bill will terminate!

Anyone who actually reads the cap and trade bill will see it was designed to End US jobs, not create them, and that it has nothing to do with the environment whatsoever.

The bulk of it is clearly intended to create new taxes on the citizens, and to force the remaining US manufacturing jobs to move to cheaper nations (China and India primarily) where there are No emission regulations so that polution actually INCREASES.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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I worked in media for over 20 years and 80% of the stories out there have very little research done in order to write a story for the purpose of benefiting themselves.
Green jobs are a waste of time anyway since the technology is not NEARLY ready to be effective. Just look at Spain. They tried to do what we are now doing with green tech and it failed. they have been doing it for 12 years. That is a fact unlike what the media tries to report on.

"The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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RB

Green jobs are growing as a result of direct funding by the US government. The government wants to create as illusion of a grass roots support to continue to waste taxpayers dollars.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Ada

Only thing I've seen growing is the health care worker's pocket books and the only green I've seen is the US dollars disapearing. Al Gore getting rich.
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES IS HURTING! When will we get help? We are all bankrupting.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON – The White House's economic advisers say jobs providing health care and helping the environment are growing more quickly than the rest of the economy.


OK so the "Economy" is dropping jobs at the rate of 600k a month so does that mean green jobs are dropping at a slower rate ? T Boone Pickens just scrapped the largest wind farms in the country .....OOPS.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Another lie from the obama administration. I work in a hospital and I get "low work loaded" about once every 2 weeks and my brother works on windfarms all over the country and he rarely gets work. Both of us worked fulltime and had chances for over time until about 3 months ago.
When will the lies stop? I love how obams now says its a "2 year" stimulus plan...since when?

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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Are these people in this administration smoking crack or what? I bet more then half did. Good job libs voting this wimp in who knows nothing thanks again.....

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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jj

My thanks to President Obama and his hard working administration - my state was one of the worst hit by the bush era economic policies and we are already coming out of it -
the neocons who blog here need to start looking at reality and get their heads out of the radio.... I think the complaining is already falling on deaf ears.....

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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A friend of mine is trying to develop affordable wind power for every home in America. He is an Engineer graduated from Oregon State, so far every attempt to secure financing from the stimulus on this New Green Jobs Stimulus, Has been a bust. He has a great plan but know one in the government wants to here about it. I suspect it will help people to much and the government of to day does not want that. They prefer keeping the people of this country like mushrooms In the dark and full of sh***t. If this Kind of thing would be able to catch on It would create jobs all over the country. Just like the housing boom eventually leading us out of recession. But as long as Obummer and crew is in office I suspect any attempt from private industry to lead us out of recession will be suppressed.

posted Jul 13, 2009 |
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