From the energy & environment agenda on the spiffy new White House website:
Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
Not create but help create jobs—government as partner, not mommy or daddy.
Not just spending but strategic investment— emphasizing positive rate of return rather than cost.
Not replace but catalyze private efforts—use government to nudge markets in the right direction.
Not return to pre-industrial Nature but build a clean energy future—active not passive, ahead not backward, implying work (build) and thus jobs.
They’re just good at this stuff.
Obama administration officials grateful for early spring
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ids Posted 12:32 am
27 Jan 2009
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