July 2, 2009
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Cap and Trade — Goodbye Green Jobs
Matt and I have been wanting to install windmills ever since we moved to Texas. I started looking into it in earnest a few years ago. But we never have enough money. And now we have even less, because we’re still paying about 35-40% of our income in taxes to support businesses that couldn’t make it, and are whining like cry-babies because they can’t figure out how to make something that people actually want to buy! So who gets penalized? The people who are making things I want to buy.
A windmill plant in Arkansas is firing workers. Why? Because no one can afford windmills. Why? Because we’re too busy paying for nasty-ass GM cars that break down (seriously, we have a Saturn Vue, and the struts break every 6 months). And now, America is bailing out GM.
Does anyone else see the hypocrisy of this? Are you all BLIND?
Call your Senators now, and tell them you DO NOT WANT THEM TO PASS THE CAP AND TRADE BILL. This will ONLY make the oil companies richer. It will not “make green jobs.” Windmill factories are CLOSING because of this administration’s bumbling attempts at holding up a capitalistic economy by supporting weak businesses with GOVERNMENT (i.e. TAX) money.
Windmill blade plant laying off 80 workers from http://www.examiner.com/a-2057297~Windmill_blade_plant_laying_off_80_workers.html
Comments Jun 8, 2009 1:26 PM (23 days ago) By CHUCK BARTELS, AP
Map data ©2009 Tele Atlas – Terms of UseMapSatelliteHybrid LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
Windmill blade maker LM Glasfiber said Monday it will lay off about 80 workers at its Port of Little Rock plant, eliminating weekend shifts at the site, because it does not have enough orders.
Glasfiber said the crisis in the credit markets and the recession have resulted in a prolonged slowdown of orders.
The Danish company’s plant at the Port of Little Rock has been on a 24-hour schedule, seven days per week. It will still run around the clock, but only Monday through Friday, the company said.
The latest layoffs will take effect in about two months. After the layoffs, about 300 people will remain on Glasfiber’s payroll at the port site and a separate training center in southwestern Little Rock, the company said. It laid off about 150 workers in January.
