{"id":518098,"date":"2010-04-06T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:18:19","slug":"create-jobs-don%e2%80%99t-go-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518098","title":{"rendered":"Create jobs, don\u2019t go green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgeography.com\/content\/001494-jobs-will-rule-november?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Newgeography+(Newgeography.com+-+Economic,+demographic,+and+political+commentary+about+places)\">Joel Kotkin<\/a> nicely encapsulates the problem at hand:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now the question is whether the president can refocus on jobs. This will take, among other things, backing off the economically ruinous climate change agenda. Even the most gullible economic development officials are beginning to realize that &#8220;green jobs&#8221; are no panacea. In fact, as evident in Spain, Germany and even Denmark, over-tough green legislation can destroy the productive capacity of the most enlightened industries. Similarly in green strongholds like California and Oregon, the mounting climate change jihad could slow and even explode the incipient recovery by imposing ever more draconian regulation on businesses that can choose to migrate to less onerous locales.<\/p>\n<p>There are some hopeful signs of Obama&#8217;s repositioning. His recent moves embracing nuclear power and off-shore oil drilling, however inadequate, show that he&#8217;s at least trying to triangulate between the green purists and the unreconstructed despoilers. Some sort of moderated energy legislation&#8211;there&#8217;s no way to get the more radical House version through the Senate&#8211;would reassure businesses and the public that the president has jobs as his No. 1 priority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, Joel Kotkin nicely encapsulates the problem at hand: Now the question is whether the president can refocus on jobs. This will take, among other things, backing off the economically ruinous climate change agenda. Even the most gullible economic development officials are beginning to realize that &#8220;green jobs&#8221; are no panacea. In fact, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}