MORE PROOF THAT STIMULUS SPENDING, THE GREEN ECONOMY, AND SOCIALISM ARE INEFFECTVE

Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. The unglamorous work of insulating crawl spaces and attics had emerged as a silver bullet in a bleak economy – able to create jobs and shrink carbon footprint – and the announcement came with great fanfare.

McGinn had joined Vice President Joe Biden in the White House to make it. It came on the eve of Earth Day. It had heady goals: creating 2,000 living-wage jobs in Seattle and retrofitting 2,000 homes in poorer neighborhoods.

But more than a year later, Seattle's numbers are lackluster. As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program.

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PROGRAMS LIKE THIS - (AND NOT MILITARY SPENDING OR THE BUSH TAX CUTS) - ARE WHY WE ARE IN HORRIBLE DEBT AND WHY BERNANKE HAS BEEN PRINTING MONEY.