By Star Parker
Van Jones is back reconstructed and rehabilitated.
Jones recall departed from his White House job as green jobs czar after publicity about his association with a 9/11 truther organization that alleges complicity of the Bush administration with the 9/11 attack.
He was already a lightening rod having characterized President Bush as a crackhead using profanity to describe Republicans and offering gems like blaming white polluters and white environmentalists for steering poison to minority communities.
But as White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel understands that power brokers should never waste a crisis those on the left grasp that you never waste an asset like a black self-described communist from the 1990s with an Ivy League degree and a best selling green jobs book.
So now Jones has new jobs at Princeton University and Washingtons Center for American Progress. And to seal the public rehabilitation he will be awarded the NAACPs Image Award and has been called by NAACP president Benjamin Jealous a national treasure.
Central to Jones work will of course be the continuation of his green jobs agenda. The Center for American Progress announcement says hell be a senior fellow and leader with its Green Opportunity Initiative.
CAP was founded by rich liberals who thought the left needed a think tank like conservatives have (as they concluded they needed talk radio and hence founded the now defunct Air America). One of the major sources of funding of CAP was Marion and Herbert Sandler who got rich building Golden West Financial selling Adjustable Rate Mortgages with teaser rates to unsophisticated buyers. Yes the very greedy kind of businesspeople that the Obama administration would have us believe caused our current economic crisis.
But the beauty of the left is that facts will never get in the way of ideology.
The recent scandal associated with the use of research data at the Climate Research Unit in England -- which has been essentially the headquarters of global warming research -- has brought claims of man-made climate change into serious doubt.
Sober minds realize that this must be a time for reassessment about assumptions driving the belief that irreversible climate change has occurred and that this alleged change is caused by human activity. As expressed in an editorial in Britains Prospect Magazine We cannot rely on highly imperfect climate models as a basis for policy initiatives that cost billions and change how we live.
But this hasnt put a dent in the green jobs movement. President Obama continues to push this idea as central to economic recovery as he did the other day speaking to CEOs at the Business Roundtable in Washington.
The love affair on the left with green jobs is of course about ideology which is why facts are irrelevant. It is another excuse to grow government and bring European socialism to America. What could be a better opportunity than to claim that the planets atmosphere is now out of whack because of capitalism?
Van Jones is important because he uses environmentalism as a new platform to welcome poor blacks onto the government plantation.
This is important spin because poor folks do have common sense. In a Zogby poll done after the presidential election 73 percent of blacks said they were opposed to taxing fossil fuels to promote alternative energy.
The Carter Administration invested $2.1 billion in the Great Plains Coal Gasification Plant to convert coal to gas. The result? Zero. Federal government spending since 1961 on advanced energy technologies and basic energy science research totals $187 billion with hardly anything to show.
Poor folks dont need socialism or green jobs. They need green money. Theyll get more of it being free going to school getting married and going to work.
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty as well as author of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay.
By Star Parker
Van Jones is back reconstructed and rehabilitated.
Jones recall departed from his White House job as green jobs czar after publicity about his association with a 9/11 truther organization that alleges complicity of the Bush administration with the 9/11 attack.
He was already a lightening rod having characterized President Bush as a crackhead using profanity to describe Republicans and offering gems like blaming white polluters and white environmentalists for steering poison to minority communities.
But as White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel understands that power brokers should never waste a crisis those on the left grasp that you never waste an asset like a black self-described communist from the 1990s with an Ivy League degree and a best selling green jobs book.
So now Jones has new jobs at Princeton University and Washingtons Center for American Progress. And to seal the public rehabilitation he will be awarded the NAACPs Image Award and has been called by NAACP president Benjamin Jealous a national treasure.
Central to Jones work will of course be the continuation of his green jobs agenda. The Center for American Progress announcement says hell be a senior fellow and leader with its Green Opportunity Initiative.
CAP was founded by rich liberals who thought the left needed a think tank like conservatives have (as they concluded they needed talk radio and hence founded the now defunct Air America). One of the major sources of funding of CAP was Marion and Herbert Sandler who got rich building Golden West Financial selling Adjustable Rate Mortgages with teaser rates to unsophisticated buyers. Yes the very greedy kind of businesspeople that the Obama administration would have us believe caused our current economic crisis.
But the beauty of the left is that facts will never get in the way of ideology.
The recent scandal associated with the use of research data at the Climate Research Unit in England -- which has been essentially the headquarters of global warming research -- has brought claims of man-made climate change into serious doubt.
Sober minds realize that this must be a time for reassessment about assumptions driving the belief that irreversible climate change has occurred and that this alleged change is caused by human activity. As expressed in an editorial in Britains Prospect Magazine We cannot rely on highly imperfect climate models as a basis for policy initiatives that cost billions and change how we live.
But this hasnt put a dent in the green jobs movement. President Obama continues to push this idea as central to economic recovery as he did the other day speaking to CEOs at the Business Roundtable in Washington.
The love affair on the left with green jobs is of course about ideology which is why facts are irrelevant. It is another excuse to grow government and bring European socialism to America. What could be a better opportunity than to claim that the planets atmosphere is now out of whack because of capitalism?
Van Jones is important because he uses environmentalism as a new platform to welcome poor blacks onto the government plantation.
This is important spin because poor folks do have common sense. In a Zogby poll done after the presidential election 73 percent of blacks said they were opposed to taxing fossil fuels to promote alternative energy.
The Carter Administration invested $2.1 billion in the Great Plains Coal Gasification Plant to convert coal to gas. The result? Zero. Federal government spending since 1961 on advanced energy technologies and basic energy science research totals $187 billion with hardly anything to show.
Poor folks dont need socialism or green jobs. They need green money. Theyll get more of it being free going to school getting married and going to work.
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty as well as author of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay.
