George Rebane

It’s been about a year down the pike since the $787 billion American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 was passed to claim the award as the greatest Congressional bum’s rush in history.  I wonder how this all strikes those holding their breath for the new green industries to be funded by such means.

Russ Steele on NC Media Watch reports here on wiser heads from China locating their solar equipment manufacturing plants next door in Arizona so they can avoid California’s insane business environment, and still serve the equally insane mandated green energy markets in California.  And we’ve been thinking all along that they were going to locate here in Nevada County.  I wonder if the Chinese green companies are also going to get stimulated by Washington.  If I were they, I’d demand some of that ARRA money as a condition for buying and not selling our Treasuries.  (more here)

[update] Late this afternoon the county updated its ARRA numbers, and we more than tripled our receipts.  Note also the increases in our applied and approved amounts.  County CEO Rick Haffey’s Friday memo to the Supes contains a bizarre account of caulking contractor bids (yes, this is one of the stimulated green jobs) for which a RFP (request for proposal) was published.  Only one contractor,  Steve Hull Construction, applied.  This apparently because of the number of hoops the government set up for qualifying contractors to jump through.  This is your government in peace and war, stimulating jobs within an industry that is flat on its butt.  If you like this, you’re gonna love the way Obamacare is going to be administered.