A Taxpayer-funded Tin Ear - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Here's a rather odd — and, it certainly seems, poorly thought out — staff-wide e-mail circulating at the EPA, from someone whose electronic signature reads "Frank Princiotta, Director, Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division":

YouTube - John Stossel: The Green Jobs Fallacy

Politicians keep telling us they want to create Green jobs. It sounds good, but its nonsense. I have a new video column up on my webpage on that. The bottom line: If green jobs are a good idea, they will just happen. The give and take of free market competition will provide them. We wont need government to suck up more of our tax dollars to create them. Whatever Green jobs really are. [Via The Foundry]

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Solar Economics: Would You Pull A Lever to Get $12,000 if Somewhere in Massachusetts a Person Lost $58,000?

Your neighbors are contributing $57,930 in subsidies while you receive just $12,081 in benefits. The remainder, just over $45,000, is a dead-weight loss to the economy. It is money destroyed by the government.