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The cruel joke of ‘Obama jobs’

The cruel myth advanced by the Obama Administration holds that massive subsidies for "green" energy produces jobs.

It doesn't. All "Obama jobs" create is a very expensive make-work scheme like the old WPA.

Nothing tells that story like the Michigan plant the president toured this week. Johnson Controls Inc. received $300 million in grants from the Obama Crew to build high-tech batteries. That produced 150 jobs at Johnson Controls. You do the math on the cost per job.

The joke, of course, is that without that kind of government welfare, those jobs go away.

So, does government create jobs? Not real ones.

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