“Jobs Of Teh Futchah!!”
The exchange occurred between Issa, Bureau of Labor Statistics Acting Commissioner Josh Galvin and Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Jane Oates at the “Addressing Concerns about the Integrity of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Jobs Reporting” hearing Wednesday in Washington:
REP. ISSA: … If you sweep the floor in a solar panel facility, is that a green job?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.…REP. ISSA: Thank you. What if you’re a college professor teaching classes about environmental studies?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: What about just any school bus driver?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: What about the guy who puts gas in the school bus?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.…REP. ISSA: What about workers at a consignment shop?
MR. GALVIN: That’s a green job.
REP. ISSA: Does the teenage kid who works full time at a used record shop count?
MR. GALVIN: Yes…REP. ISSA: … Wouldn’t an oil lobbyist count as having a green job if they are engaged in advocacy related to environmental issues?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
“Created [out of whole cloth] & Saved [from Reality] !!!”
Well, I’m glad Rep. Issa cleared that up.
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…used car salesman…
Used car salesman = green job.
Petroleum lobbyist flying corporate jet to DC, then taking huge diesel SUV to hearing to engage in advocacy related to environmental issues?
Yeah, if he’s an Uhbama contributor.
All so the Obamanation can claim he “created” x number of “green jobs”.
Hell is too good for these people
Somebody needs to pay me the next time I shit, so I can call it a “green job.’
I have a septic system and my processed food, after being digested a second time by microbes, has its remaining liquid filtered through layers of rock and soil to replenish the water table.
You’re welcome, Chu, now hand over my DOE grant.
Coal miner?
–endangered species, I suppose.
So many questions….
So since Sheryl Crow advocated re-using toilet paper does that make her rock star job green or brown?
And do those making CFL Mercury filled hazmat bubs have ‘green’ jobs?
And when our landfills are full of mercury will the hazmat crews be ‘green’ (or just look it?)
And will those manufacturing soylent green be considered green jobs?
Are cannibals ‘green’?
If my dogs are eating certain dog food, they leave green shovel ready jobs in the back yard.
If Obama had bartered with Sinclair in weed instead of cocaine, that would have been a green job.
Buzz, thanks for the reminder. I’m filing the paperwork tomorrow.
Growing marijuana? Green jobs.
Distributing marijuana? Green jobs.
Arresting marijuana dealers? Green jobs.
Serving as judge in marijuana dealer trials? Green jobs.
Lather, rinse, and repeat for all other plant-based drugs–legal and illegal. Hey, brewers? Green jobs. Distillers? Green jobs. Bath salts? Probably not…
Okay, maybe this is obvious already, or perhaps the point but if there’s a lobbyist who’s engaged in opposing environmental activist positions, doesn’t this qualify as a green job too?
Buzz (5): Somebody needs to pay me the next time I shit, so I can call it a “green job.’ If I had your address, I’d mail you a penny…
…but wait, if I’m paying Buzz, and I haven’t made an Obama campaign contribution, doesn’t that make me a fat cat 1%er? Oh, shit.
Earning greenbacks? Green jobs.
Reloading ammo: green job
“REP. ISSA: OK. What about somebody who opened a store to sell rare manuscripts?
MR. GALVIN: What industry is that?”
“Bureau of Labor Statistics Acting Commissioner Josh Galvin” … and he doesn’t know what industry a book store is in?
There’s nothing on the web about Mr Galvin.
On the other hand, this is good news. I assemble weapons-grade uranium to make mass-destruction weapons. Since it involves recycled material, my job counts as “green”.
I think Galvin just gave up, threw in the towel, on that last one (about oil lobbyists).