Posted by
Defend America on Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:29:52 PM
February 18, 2010 |
2:26
am
Who could forget the $5 billion in Obama administration stimulus money that was going to rapidly create nearly 90,000 green
jobs across the country in these tough economic times and make so many
thousands of homes all snuggy and warm and energy-efficient these very
snowy days?
Well, a new report due out this morning will show the $5-billion
program is so riddled with drafts that so far it's weatherized only
about 9,000 homes.
Based on the initial Obama-Biden program promise that it would
create 87,000 new jobs its first year, that would be about 10 jobs for
each home weatherized so far. Makes for pretty crowded doorways.
ABC News reports
that the General Accountability Office will declare today that the
Energy Department has fallen woefully behind -- about 98.5% behind --
the 593,000 homes it initially predicted would be weatherized in the
Recovery Act's very first, very chilly year.
(UPDATE 12:22 p.m. An Energy spokeswoman disputes the independent GAO numbers as outdated and conclusions as inaccurate. Full statement below.)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/02/obama-stimulus-weatherization.html