Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
This story is from the “you can’t make this stuff up” file. Some of our British cousins have figured out a way to solve it all. They have set up the One Million Jobs Caravan, as part of a “Campaign Against Climate Change” … I’m not sure how they plan to stop the climate from changing, but apparently it takes a million people to do it. To fight against CO2 emissions, the backers plan to get into fossil-fueled vehicles and drive, the lot of them, from city to city all around England and Scotland. And then back again.
Now, the numbers out of Spain have shown that for every green job created, two regular jobs were destroyed. And the “green jobs” campaign in the US has been a resounding failure. So I was quite curious as to just how these green jobs were going to be created. I also wondered about the involvement of the trade unions called the CWU, the UCU, and the like.
I found out the campaign backers were proposing to create the jobs the old-fashioned way …
… I cannot improve on their own words …
… the mind boggles … the solution to the UK economic crisis, and the way to end the persistent nuisance of the climate inconsiderately changing all the time, is to add a million “secure, flexible, permanent” union workers building wind farms to the UK government’s permanent welfare rolls.
These folks would be funny if they weren’t so dangerous.
Meanwhile, here in California we just found out that we’re unexpectedly $16,000,000,000 dollars in the hole in this year’s budget, from things like paying union teachers and state bureaucrats and functionaries princely salaries while they are working and then paying them very large pensions for the rest of their lives. Oh, and did I mention business-unfriendly? Eighth year in a row, California was voted worst state to do business in by a poll of CEOs …
However, I hear that there is budgetary hope regarding the California Department of Transportation, which maintains the roads. It seems that they’ve invented a machine that can idly lean on a shovel, promising big savings in labor costs, which is good news … bad news is, I hear the machines have already formed the MWU, the Machine Workers Union, and they’ve stopped leaning on their shovels and joined the One Million Jobs Caravan …
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Just went to that site Willis. This jumped out at me:
GUARANTEED JOBS!!! No work or competence required.
James Sexton
May 14, 2012 at 5:48 pm
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Nice collection of quotes.
It doesn’t help that the fraud-in-chief doesn’t understand economics 101, either.
I see dud people.
Simple solution :
Month 1, hire 83,300 people to do survey and site prep for ecologically friendly construction projects.
Month 2, hire 83,300 people to inspect those new sites and find that they do not meet requirements.
Month 3, hire 83,300 lawyers to find out who is at fault for the non-compliance and sue them.
Month 4, hire 83,300 people to return the building sites to their original condition.
Repeat process 3 times a year.
/sarc
Larry
Please put this back in The Onion where it belongs…
I think my dog is smarter than the wiz kids who thought this up…(and my dog ain’t too bright)
listening to: Ozzy Osbourne– “Crazy Train”
The green ‘jobs’ program … a ‘millyun new jobs’ … could it work out like … Soylent Green?
And Soylent Green –
Lifted from wiki:
(Could. Not. Resist. This. Comparison.)
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Prof Tim Flannery had it right. “In a report to be released today, climate commissioner Professor Tim Flannery said of Western Sydney the region’s temperatures would rise sharply in coming years, leading to violence and more cases of mental illness.”
Just the location was wrong, not Western Sydney but parts of the UK.
yes create 1,000,000 new jobs, with all the quality and efficiency of your favorite hideous bureaucracy….. they don’t even pretend to have a “Five Year Plan” as good as the ol’ USSR, it’s a mere “12 month plan”
“Your Climate Change Bureau, For When Loathing the DMV* Is Not Enough!”
*Dept. of Motor Vehicles, for those whose drivers’ license bureaucracy goes by some other name
1,000,000 “Climate Jobs”. Are there that many empty news desk?
Let’s see, some quick math here. 1,000,000 new useless govmt bureaucrats…. say $40k? avg salary, 1×10^6 x 40k = $40,000,000,000 new wasted dollars (or some equivelance in UK pounds) per year. Cool!
Hey that’s a great photo of the Gillard government!
It’s May, late spring, and I see lots of thick warm clothes being worn. Global warming must be really terrible in the UK.
Wow! Brilliant. Someone finally devised a <perpetuum moneymum.
I am all in with these guys. I will join in and “Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group”. I’ll start right now. I proclaim that I am against the “Climate Change Trade Union Group” because they wish to spend people’s hard earned money on creating an unneeded and wasteful bureaucracy.
I am so glad to see that some of the greens and I agree that we should be campaigning against wasteful ideas such as the “Climate Change Trade Union Group”. *whew*
I suspect those green hats they are wearing are lined with tin-foil.
“Willis Eschenbach says:
May 14, 2012 at 6:42 pm”
30 million employed, roughly 50% of the population? I don’t think so. Last statistic I read about the employed, full-time, workforce in the UK in the mid 90’s stated there were about 13 million full-time employed. Of course, I understand the situation could have changed, but it’s unlikely given the economic state of the UK and EU at present.
But tax revenue is collected all the time in the UK. As one example, in 1995, the tax revenue from the road fund license (Tax disk) for private vehicles alone was GBP22 billion (5 billion being “invested” in roads). At the time this “income” represented about ~75% of the GDP of New Zealand.
Just read this:
clivebest says:
May 14, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Pure genius, and you know what, it would be a much more reliable way to generate power than windmills or solar panels. In cold weather, leave the gym windows open and the cyclists will pedal faster to keep warm which will generate more power to meet the higher demand. The more you look into this idea the better it becomes.
Is this something like what happened in China where a core of government employees were dispatched to eliminate the waste of feeding pets? You’d be walking down the street and a van would screetch to a halt and a squad of enforcement officers would fall out of it and club your dog to death at the end of your leach?
Well, now … try watching this without outright alternately laughing and crying:
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Reality will take a large, sharp-toothed bite out of their butts the first time they pull those million vehicles into a service station and say “Fill ‘er up — all of ’em.”
“Cash or credit?”
“Credit, of course. We don’t have the cash to pay for all of it.”
“Ah. There’s the flaw in your plan, mate.”
Hopefully Dad left Mom enough money for the lens implant.
It’s amazing that these guys get taken seriously. Absolutely astounding.
Well most of those million are probably on the unemployment benefit anyway. So actually why not make them work for their money. I suggest a suitable “green job” would be to set them to chopping up firewood so people can heat their houses when the power goes off. Of course they can’t use chainsaws since those are petroleum driven.They’ll have to do it the old fashioned way using an axe. A year or two of that should teach them a thing or two about the “green” economy don’t you think?