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One of the things a lot of pros like about C2E2 is the late start on Friday. It doesn't open to the public until 1:00 pm, so creators can sleep in and recover from their trips if they want. Or, if they want to go early to set up or just walk around and visit with each other, they can do that too. It's also helpful for press jerks taking lots of pictures. Lots. Of pictures.
Kinda like this:
Captain America joins Iron Man in the Diesel line of cologne, just in time for his big blockbuster movie, Captain America: The First Avenger.
The limited edition fragrance is made of lemon, mandarin and coriander leaf; essential oils of landanum, violet leaves and rosemary; plus amber, leather and cedar — all essential ingredients of the Super Solider serum.
Cap is currently framing the Diesel site, which has various blog posts featuring the hero. Check out another look at the box art, drawn by Bryan Hitch, after the jump.
Journeys is selling Converse All Star Hi-Tops featuring a selection of DC superheroes for $60. Fans can choose between Superman, Batman, Green Lantern (in two styles, one featuring other members of the Corp), The Flash and The Joker.
Which would you get? Or would you rather hold out for another character?
Not that I've given it much thought, but I imagine Iron Man smells like a mixture of metal, stale sweat and booze. However, the fine folks at Diesel apparently have a different (and, arguably, better) idea, as they're releasing a limited-edition Iron Man 2 fragrance — just ahead of the movie's premiere, naturally.
For the cologne, Diesel has remade the familiar clenched-fist bottle of its Only the Brave line in red and gold. The box, as you can see in the image above, features art from Marvel comics.
So, what does Iron Man smell like? According to the LA Times' All The Rage blog, Diesel describes the scent as, "top notes of lemon blossom, mandarin and coriander leaves, a heart of labdanum, black rose and lavender, and a dry down of amber, tolu wood and ebony wood."
Wait, wait, wait. Mandarin?
The cologne, which retails for $67.50, will be available in major department stores and Diesel boutiques in mid-April.
Now that we've officially turned the corner on Halloween, it's time to start thinking about holiday shopping. No, don't make that face, I'm being serious.
And if you're shopping for that special comic book aficionado in your life and not sure what to get them, why not consider a wallet? More precise, a Comic Wallet. Albert Doan, of Calgary, Canada, turns old (and some new) comic books and turns them into laminated, reinforced wallet, which he then sells on his site for about $20-$30 a pop. He's even got a series of Blackest Night wallets available, if you just can't get enough DC zombies. He also handles special requests, so if you've been anxiously craving to certain sequences from say, Faust, folded up and stuffed in your back pocket, now's your chance. Myself, I'm holding out for a Little Lulu set.
In case you weren't aware of it, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month here in the U.S. (I don't know about elsewhere in the world). To help get the word out, Cancer Vixen author and cancer survivor (and New Yorker cartoonist) Marisa Acocella Marchetto has teamed up with Bigelow Chemists to put together a special limited edition beauty kit.
The kit, featuring Marchetto's illustrations, includes all-time favorite C.O. Bigelow formulas: Lemon Cream Body Wash (1.7 oz.), Lemon Body Cream (1.7 oz.), Mentha Lip Tint in Pink Mint (0.5 oz.), Mentha Foot Tingling Foot Cream (2 oz.), and Dr. Hiosous Quince Hand Lotion (2 oz.).
The kit costs $29.50. In addition, Bigelow will donate $250,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. (found via Bleeding Cool)
Bloomingdale's is teaming up with DC Comics to offer high-end clothing and accessories in its stores nationwide this holiday season. Bloomingdale's will launch the line with a series of customer events on Oct. 14, including the one in San Francisco with James Robinson I mentioned last week.
Items they plan to carry include T-shirts, socks, scarves, tote bags, wallets, ties, cuff links and pocket squares. Per the press release, the DC Comics collection will range in price from $30 for a pair of Psycho Bunny socks to $225 for a JACK SPADE tote. The above Batman shirt retails for $62. That's more than I'd probably pay for a T-shirt, but I'm guessing I'm not the target audience here.
You can find more shirts here. And I've posted pics of some of the other items after the jump …
Yaoi Press and Studio Kosen have produced several decks of art nouveau-style yaoi playing cards that will undoubtedly please fans of the genre.
Because of the high production costs, the publisher is first testing interest in the card decks by offering a set on eBay (at the time of this post, the top bid was $61).
(via Japanator)
DC Comics put a quick end to the National Basketball Association's plans to sell "Krypto-Nate" T-shirts commemorating the slam-dunk victory of Nate Robinson.
However, the New York Post reports, the NBA is trying come to an agreement with the comics publisher and parent company Warner Bros., which hold the rights to most everything Kryptonian.
"The NBA decided not to release the Krypto-Nate T-shirt because of future initiatives we are working on with Warner/DC Comics," an NBA source told the newspaper.
Robinson, a New York Knicks point guard, beat Dwight "Superman" Howard in the Slam Dunk Contest held Feb. 14 during the NBA's All-Star Weekend. Dubbing himself "Krypto-Nate," the five-foot-nine-inch Robinson catapulted himself over the six-foot-11-inch, cape-wearing Howard.
Within two days of the win, the NBA launched plans to sell a green Knicks T-shirt bearing Robinson's No. 4 and the words "Krypto-Nate." A day later, those plans were scrapped. (The Post notes the NBA Store is close to the DC Comics offices.)
You've seen the real merchandise, like condoms and coffee and what have you, but our favorite stuffed bull presents a genius merchandising tie-in for the upcoming Watchmen film — Watchmen ice cream:
We all scream for more flavors over at Bully's site.
Even superheroes need a pick-me-up for those long nights fighting crime or doing other things, and here it is. The Organic Coffee Cartel is now selling a blend called Veidt Enterprise's Nite Owl Dark Roast:
It's a small moment in the film WATCHMEN – Dan and Laurie save a group from a tenement fire. Once inside the Owl Ship, the survivors are offered what else? Coffee. Among all that hardware, there's an airplane-style coffee maker. And Veidt Enterprise's Nite Owl Dark Roast is the imaginary brand of coffee they brew. What better name for the quintessential caffeinated beverage when served in the context of nocturnal crime-fighting? In truth, this is 100% organic specialty coffee from WATCHMEN unit photographer Clay Enos and his Organic Coffee Cartel.
Only 10,000 cans will be produced, and they're giving away a chance to attend the premiere of the film in Los Angeles with each purchase. Enos, you may recall, did the Watchmen: Portrait book as well. Per the site, a majority of their profits go to charity.
On the one hand, the settlement between Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox ensures movie-goers will get to see Zack Snyder's $130-million Watchmen adaptation in March. On the other hand, the agreement clears the way for these licensed Halloween costumes, from Rubie's (which also makes a selection of V for Vendetta-wear).
Wait, there's more: A Dr. Manhattan rubber face mask pretty much guarantees that, come October, you'll encounter at least one guy covered in blue body paint and wearing only a black thong. Or less.
(via Topless Robot)
A Watchmen hoodie can be yours, or Alan Moore's, for a cool $48.
Great, now I have Burn Down Hot Topic stuck in my head.
(via Pink Kryptonite)
Update: Stephen Gerding posted a snapshot last month of a Watchmen in-store display.


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Skip to comments.WATCH: Rep. Trey Gowdy Calls Nancy Pelosi 'Mind-Numbingly Stupid'
Posted on 02/17/2014 7:40:10 AM PST by Nachum
If Democrats would wake up and realize what Rep. Trey Gowdy is saying is true, then we can begin to move the ball in the right direction.
Until they do that, grab some popcorn, folks. When people stop being polite and start getting real, weve got some real entertainment on our hands.
(Excerpt) Read more at ijreview.com ...
I love Trey Gowdy. I wish he were speaker.
Nancy's wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
Well, were it not for Sheila Jackson Lee, I'd say he's right. So in this case, Nancy is just the penultimate example of "mind numbingly stupid" [albeit a very close second]
Stupid in a knowing stuff sort of way but dangerously canny in a political/bolshevik sort of way. I'm sure Gowdy is not naive enough to mis-underestimate her.
I love this, because I HATE phony political civility.
"Decorum" sucks!
Pelosi sure says real dumb sounding stuff and its purpose is to keep her members in line,
one thing is that she sure knew (knows) how to get her caucus to do what she wanted(wants) them to.
Not many free spirits in that group.
Gowdy is one of those who is not afraid, to call out the demoncrats.
Will we see the republican leadership come out and apologize for his comments?
With the raging Syrian civil war, I'm surprised that no one has posted pictures of Nancy with Assad praising him as a 'Reformer'.
"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," said Pelosi, who met for three hours with Syrian President Bashar Assad. (2007)
They'd do it to you.
This goes back a few months, no? We need more Repesentatives with clarity of mind and speech to upend these liberal fools who are running our country down the toilet.
If the Democrats ever woke up, they would not be Democrats.
Pelosi is a perfect example of the modern liberal woman.
1. Would be serving burgers had she not boinked a rich guy.
2. Couldn't pass a seventh grade history test.
3. Couldn't pass a fourth grade math test.
4. Would be rejected by the military in a heartbeat.
Summary....grifting, untalented, no-intelligence tapeworm, but votes in the accepted thoughts of chairman Obamadork.
And - a true example of the word b*tch.
Any second now.
Cut the ol lady some slack. She might not be stupid. She might just be senile.
I agree 100%. Pelosi is like one of those old "party boss" types that know their trade (corrupt politics) very well, if little else.
Yes, that's true but she isn't the only one by far.
Sheila Jackson Lee and John Boner anyone?
John McCain and John Kerry?
This country is run by absolute morons, and not only are they morons, they are also evil.
"And - a true example of the word b*tch"
I like "TAPEWORMM" better! A blood sucking critter living in feces.....yep....that's the ticket!
Good on ya mate!
Why is there the standing perception that all legislators have to be "friends?" McCain would be "good friends" with Satan if he won a seat.
We have to repudiate this congressional culture and demand that our reps start representing the interests of their constituents, other hostile legislators be damned.
It's called "decorum". It sucks.
Yes. Pelosi's face has been surgically stretched tighter than the head on a snare drum, stretching the remaining brain cells as well. You could read a newspaper through her cerebrum.
When Pelosi was speaker I spoke to a lobbyist for an industry association. Off the record this person told me Pelosi was not very bright but is an extreme partisan and will fight with whatever means are available to her. The lobbyist also indicated the power players in the Obama administration disliked her immensely but found her to be a useful pawn since she was intensely partisan and driven to further the party agenda at all costs. Furthermore, per this observer the feeling was mutual. As a side comment this Washington insider indicated the Republican strategists were not smart enough to exploit the mutual disdain between the White House and Pelosi. I believe the specific comment was something to the effect, "When you are focused on playing defense you ignore many opportunities".
Dems can get away with being mind-numbingly stupid. They know the media will cover for them. Imagine if a Repub had said they had to pass a bill he supported to find out what's in it.
Ah HA! Finally someone has explained WTH Obama meant by all that 'transparency' talk!
Sheila Jackson Lee isn't just mind numbingly stupid, she's weapons-grade stupid.
I wish Trey Gowdy were President.
WMD stupid....ha ha...
Gowdy was not one of the twelve who opposed Boehner for leadership at the beginning of this session of Congress like Justin Amash of Michigan, Tom Massie of Kentucky and Steve Stockman of Texas.
I see him as being a lot like my congressman, making emotional statements critical of Democrats while not trying to stop the Uniparty debt increasing-tax increasing policy of Boehner as reflected in the debt ceiling vote or the Murray-Ryan budget plan of December last year that created new taxes and cut military pensions.
Pelosi and SJ-L being stupid is bad enough. But, the real problem are the millions of people who find them brilliant!
And that is being kind.
This goes back a few months, no?
A classic!
Jun 22, 2012
Here is the complete interview - around 9 min. regarding Fast and furious.
On The Record with Greta Van Susteren
I agree with him 100%. Pelosi makes Sheila Jackson-Lee look like a rocket scientist.
She is the daughter of a mayor of Baltimore, who was one of those old party bosses back in the day. I think she learned a lot from her father. Her brother was also a mayor of Baltimore. She's from a political family.
Everyone knows Nancy has the IQ of your average tree slug.
Had he been head of the committee examining the IRS scandal Lois Learner would be in prison today!
I can believe that, most definitely.
But most libtards are too stupid and delusional to realize it.
"If Democrats would wake up and realize what Rep. Trey Gowdy is saying is true, then we can begin to move the ball in the right direction."
That should be amended to "If the Republicans would wake up...."
Me too....wish he would run. We need articulate people and he is the best there is. Gowdy-Cruz...what a ticket that would be.
If Nancy Pelosi were a monkey in the zoo, she would be throwing handfuls of her own feces about now. Trey better get ready to duck.
Hey, it works for her with other Democrats for the reason cited below.
The following comments have been attributed to Democrat political operative James Carville (aka Serpenthead, an appellation given him by his own wife). According to the alleged myth-busting website Snopes, owned and operated by a leftist Canadian husband and wife team who have been often caught shading or ignoring altogether information inimical to their leftist agenda, Carville never said this:
(Begin Carville's alleged statement.)
"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That's why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.
Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don't have a clue as to political reality.
What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want.
The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans.
Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to."
(End of Carville's alleged statement.)
My point in bringing this to your attention?
Whether Carville said these things or not is completely irrelevant. The fact is that we are living in the midst of an era in which a distressing portion of the Democrat electorate is proving those words accurate beyond any question or doubt.
And that begs the most important questions we will ever ask: Will America the admittedly imperfect IDEA the Founders sought to leave us survive this very dangerous era? And will it survive long enough for some of us to continue improving this fragile experiment in the freest and most productive system in the history of the world or will we allow those whose only goal is to accrete and wield power by any and all means to destroy it and replace it with a system that has failed each and every time it has been attempted?
Each time I deal with this topic, the words of the perspicacious Baltimore journalist back when journalism was still an honorable profession Henry Louis Mencken come to mind: The urge to save humanity is most often a false front for the urge to RULE!
If we fail to correctly answer those questions in the next national elections, God help us.
But then, since we kicked Him to the curb decades ago, why would He?
Looks like we're on our own and we probably only have one or two more chances to get it right!
whaddya' mean "by now"? every time she opens her mouth, it's splattering spews of the stuff.
Thanks. I'll check that out later. As I recall it was a refreshing dose of sanity.
She is a blithering moron. Too bad more people don't call her out.
"... a few minor complications '''"
Excellent post. Carville's alleged quote really identifies the key to just about any totalitarian regime gaining power in the past 200 years or more. That, and Mencken's quote appearing in another good post in this thread.
Thank you. Feel free to repost and/or send to any libtards in your orbit. It's guaranteed to make their heads explode!
And that's a good thing!!
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Green Jobs 2.0: Re-Framing The Politics Of Clean Energy Around The Climate-Informed Economy
If the recent election taught us anything, it's that we need to re-frame the politics of clean energy.
Sure, advocates celebrated a victory last November by keeping President Obama and many others who understand the importance of the clean energy economy in office. After more than a year of spurious political attacks against Solyndra, green jobs, and the clean energy stimulus, that was a considerable achievement.
But those victories have come at a considerable cost.
In Washington, some of the political hostility has died down after the election. However, as negotiations around raising the debt ceiling unfold, there are already renewed calls to cut federal funding for key programs supporting renewable energy, efficiency, and other cleantech industries. That's because many Republicans see cleantech as just another special interest feeding off government — not as a core driver of environmentally-minded business in the 21st century.
A lot has changed since since the mid-2000's when the sector had overwhelming bipartisan support in national politics. Two things happened: The cleantech sector got a considerable boost through the stimulus, making it a punching bag for conservatives targeting government spending; and the commercialization of fracking technologies caused a resurgence in the U.S. oil & gas sector, directly challenging clean energy.
As the editors of MIT's Technology Review pointed out recently, making cleantech a part of the stimulus package was necessary and important for helping lay the foundation for a clean energy transition. But simply selling it as a short-term jobs creator did some damage to the political credibility of the sector.
"We cautioned against conflating economic stimulus with a sustainable and effective energy policy. Leading economists noted that job creation needed to happen quickly, while transforming our energy infrastructure would take decades," wrote the editors.
Of course, there were a lot of real and undeniable successes spurred by the stimulus package that deserve to be mentioned. (Time Magazine's Michael Grunwald does a great job reporting on the many success stories in clean energy and other sectors in his recent book on the stimulus).
Consider this: In 2006, wind turbine manufacturers were only able source 35 percent of components from American companies. Today, in large part due to the stimulus, there are now 500 manufacturing facilities in operation around the U.S. that supply nearly 70 percent of components for American wind farms. That's a doubling of domestic sourcing in five years.
Since 2008, America's production of renewable electricity has nearly doubled; we have increased home weatherization by 1,000 percent; the industry was saved from a complete financial collapse by a Treasury grant program that supported 75,000 jobs; the solar and wind industries now support nearly 200,000 American jobs combined; and economy-wide, there are roughly 2.7 million green jobs spread across a range of sectors.
We should embrace these successes. But when taking them in a broader economic context, we must also state the obvious: The green jobs revolution that was touted before the stimulus package passed did not fully emerge.
That's because the economic revolution spurred by clean energy isn't really a revolution — it's a multi-decade evolution. While this sector will certainly continue to create good American jobs, they don't just appear in a four-year political time frame. Combine these less-than-expected green jobs numbers with a few high-profile bankruptcies of flashy government-backed cleantech companies, and you get a toxic political result.
"The outcome, which we foresaw in our 2009 article, was an entirely unnecessary black eye for the clean-energy effort," wrote the MIT Technology Review editors in their assessment of the stimulus.
The situation came to a head during an election year when fossil fuel interests spent $270 million to beat down clean energy, promote outright lies about green jobs, and push more oil, gas, and coal.
(Important note: many of the predictions for green jobs figures were based on a comprehensive suite of policies that would nurture the industry — including a carbon price and a national target for efficiency and renewable energy — not just the one-time stimulus. That's a necessary distinction that often gets lost in critiques).
At the same time, the boom in unconventional oil and gas has challenged traditional economic and energy security arguments traditionally pushed by clean energy advocates. Five years ago, very few people foresaw the dramatic expansion of domestic oil and gas that was on the horizon. The common wisdom was that oil was scarce, natural gas prices would stay extremely volatile, and the U.S. would continue to import more of its energy. Now, with America on track to become the world's largest producer of liquid fuels, the political urgency behind renewable energy has died down (or vanished) among political leaders who are simply concerned about energy independence and energy security.
"Sure, the cost of low-carbon energy technologies — wind, solar, biofuels and others — is coming down. But improvements in technologies for extracting fossil fuels are making it harder for renewables to reach cost parity," wrote economist Severin Borenstein, last February in a Bloomberg News op-ed. "The only compelling argument for policies to boost renewables and reduce fossil fuels is the environment."
I strongly disagree with Borenstein that the environment is the only argument for policies to boost renewables. But he does correctly highlight the need for a better strategy framing the importance of government support for clean energy and green jobs.
We must use the environmental imperative — primarily climate change — to drive the political narrative.
Let me be clear: I don't mean abandoning positive economic messaging around green jobs. We can't walk away from the years of hard work that finally made green jobs and clean energy mainstream terms. But in political circles, green jobs have been sold as a short-term economic solution first and environmental solution last. That needs to be flipped on its head.
Green jobs are a favorable economic consequence of a sound energy and environmental policy based on reducing carbon emissions. They are a natural product of the "climate-informed economy," as Bracken Hendricks, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, so succinctly described it to me recently. Creating green jobs shouldn't be an end political goal. Rather, the rallying message should be for a de-carbonization strategy to deal with climate change.
This isn't inconsistent with how people talked about green jobs in the first place. The political problems arose when advocates put far too much emphasis on the short-term jobs boost we'd get from the stimulus (my parent organization, the Center for American Progress, included). Green jobs became the goal, not a desirable consequence of the end goal, which is to create a more sustainable society. So when all the jobs didn't materialize as claimed, advocates got stuck playing defense.
Re-framing the environmental imperative will get advocates away from defensively bean counting jobs. It also helps us think about the consequences of the domestic oil and gas boom. If we want to go "green" just to create jobs, why wouldn't we simply focus on drilling every square inch of America to create jobs? Because doing so would keep us on a path toward climate disaster.
When we actually embrace the economy-wide transition scientists say we need in order to deal with climate change, jobs in nearly every sector will be begin to look "green" in some way.
Our economic, energy, and environmental policies should not be focused on creating green jobs. Instead, they should all be focused on helping de-carbonize America. When that happens, the jobs will follow.
It is with both sadness and excitement that I publish my last piece as Deputy Editor of Climate Progress. I will be heading over to Greentech Media where I'll be reporting/editing on the business of cleantech. To keep in touch, follow me on Twitter: @Stphn_Lacey.
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I'm starting to believe the paradigm many in the climate movement have been using needs re-thinking. Many people are using military crisis analogies as the paradigm. While the WWII/Manhatten Project analogies to what is needed in climate change might be correct, they appear to not be taking hold with the public. The threat is not sufficiently close to have adequate impact and elicit the level of sacrifice required. Perhaps our paradigm is mis-directed. Perhaps what we need is to sell climate remediation as an Apollo-type project. Apollo specifically, and Manned Space flight generally, are perhaps the biggest wastes of money this country ever made. Yet, it was wildly successful, because of how it attracted the public's interest, and also how it created jobs throughout the country. Is there a way to generate an Apollo project for climate change that would not only rapidly convert us to renewables, but somehow force some of the large fossil fuel reductions that are required here and now? This is not my first choice, which would emphasize large fossil fuel use reductions above all else, but I don't think my first choice can be implemented voluntarily.
Congrats on the new gig! Good luck and thanks for all you excellent work on this blog.
The issue does need a refreshed frame. The WW2 analogy hasn't had enough of a chance yet, largely because, as you point out, the threat just isn't personalized. Yet.
I think the thrust of this article is that selling the positive non-climate aspects, which we have been doing for the past 4 years, hasn't worked. It's taken us off-message. So doubt the moonshot frame would be effective.
The WW2 trope certainly has not had the push that the jobs trope has had. It can still work. Unfortunately, it will take some really bad stuff happening first. Like the ice cap disappearing one summer soon. By then, of course, it's probably too late.
I think the word "environment" has become a trigger for the right wing. To them, it connotes an irrational devotion to forms of life other than human. We need terminology and framing that puts human peril front and center.
The risk with that is being labeled alarmist. It is in fact as alarming as the rise of Germany and Japan in the 30s. But the climate doesn't have a funny mustache and bad intentions. It just is, and we all are implicated. So it's hard for people to work up the passion to take action. It's just too abstract.
That's the sales job. How to make the crisis less abstract.
Two comments: First, Congratulations on your new job, Steve. Hope someone fills your shoes as well as you did.
Second: I was a bit surprised by a retweet from Glen Greenwald @ggreenwald this AM that went like this: "Glad NYT closed its environment bureau. Reading abt climate crisis is depressing. Hope they replace it w Family Circus http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/200217/nyt-closes-its-environment-desk-reassigns-journalists/#.UPAMrphdxLI.twitter …" While this is obviously sarcasm, perhaps there is truth here. Greenwald is a popular progressive voice with about 3 x as many twitter followers as Climate Progress. He is obviously more concerned about US Drone policy than he is about Climate policy. This attitude implied is that the lack of coverage is not worth serious concern.
Stephen congrats on the new gig!
I agree with re-framing the argument. We should never shy away from what we are actually for. What are your thoughts regarding the jobs/$invested metric, in that a dollar invested in clean energy creates more jobs than a dollar invested in traditional energy jobs?
(Obviously, not just one dollar).
Nice outgoing post, Stephen. You've opened an important new platform for clean energy discussion during your tenure at Climate Progress Glad. I'm glad to see that you'll still be in the broader circle of clean energy communicators in your new role at Greentech Media!
Re Superman1: The Apollo program did indeed attract a lot of positive public interest and achieved a pretty awesome goal of putting people on the moon. However, the program was part of a larger, longer-term context (the Cold War) and was framed and subsequently understood quite clearly to a wide swath of the American public as a "beat the Soviets" technology arms race (and of course included dreadful nukes).
Unfortunately climate change does not afford us a clean & crisp "us vs. them" framework that drove much of U.S. R&D, military and foreign policy affairs for the last half of the 20th Century. Instead I'd argue that climate change is a hybrid of the ethical question "now vs. future" frame and globally as a "we all go in together or don't go in at all" frame.
And so to tie back to Stephen's post, while I agree we advocates over-hyped the potential short-term numbers of green jobs resulting from the Stimulus and other very good Obama Term 1 clean energy deployment policies, we have to continue to build the most compelling economic and jobs case that we can to build political strength to power through the climate change socio-political paradigms I point out above in order to get bigger and better clean energy deployment policies. As you mention Stephen, we're up against hundreds of millions of dollars of opposition advocacy — spinning doubt and heresy — that I bet even tobacco companies of the 1960's would marvel at.
So while I agree that continuance in doing broad brush green jobs beancounting is meeting diminishing returns, we have to continue building political momentum for clean energy policies by showing politicians that green jobs matter and are a growing significance in our U.S. economy. That means leading new advocacy efforts to advance and defend state and federal clean energy policies by showing that clean energy jobs are real, local and happening in policy decision-makers districts. By doing so, I believe policymakers will see clean energy as an incumbent industry in our energy future that's providing jobs and economic benefits now and that their constituencies will be more willing to take action and hold them accountable for their energy policy choices.
Certain specific types of green energy are like minting American jobs because they are labor intensive. Buttoning up houses with insulation is carpenter-intensive work. Home photovoltaics is partly equipment (which should be made here but China wants to monopolize production through monopolistic tactics) but somebody local needs to put it up and wire it. Putting things on existing house roofs such as solar hot water panels is more labor-intensive than building some solar farm in the desert.
There's also a galaxy of solar heat and daylighting applications waiting to be made inexpensive. Solar heat should be dirt cheap someday because solar arrives on everyone's roof daily, solar heat storage can in theory be done with the dirt/rocks on everyone's property, and solar heat can reach almost any desired temperature through concentration.
As long as solar progress is sandbagged by the government, not too much will be done. There's almost no such thing as an independent environmentalist interested in solar progress, and the government is bought, so the fossil companies don't worry.
We need to do two important things:
1) To bring the environment under the defense department, and divert some of those (wasted and substantial funds) toward the transition away from fossil fuels, and preparing for a rock ride to get there.
2) We need substantial government investment in "zero point" energy development. Look up Justin Hall's Ted Talk on this. Nano technology has already figured out how to harvest clean renewable energy out of the ether. Now entrenched corporate interests (who won't be able to meter this energy) need to get out of the way.
http://www.buckyworld.me Buckminster Fuller had it all figured out!
I fear any 're-framing' of the problems associated with development of renewable energy to replace fossil fuel sources under growth orientated capitalism is doomed to fail; a fundamental revision of how we share and consume resources in a finite planet Earth is required.
The following linked article provides much food for thought on the many uncomfortable governance issues confronting citizens:-
Yes, many thanks Stephen.
Change: "I think the word "environment" has become a trigger for the right wing."
No, it is a trigger and the bullet.
We may have squandered three decades following Al Gore and the big green as we fumble through a 'framing' session of what is a social, engineering and economic challenge human kind has ever faced and absolutly not prepared to address.
There are ways to make green energy, and particularly lower cost of energy renewable energy (wind energy) economically viable WITHOUT taxpayer subsidies (either tax avoidance or direct grants from governments). For some god-forsaken reason, most environmentalists in the US remain addicted to government subsidies. They also tend to be profoundly ignorant of the effects of casino electricity pricing on renewable energy economics and financing, and that has proven to be unfortunate and tragic on so many levels/ways.
We get recessions more frequently, more or less as a function of income inequality – the more unequal things get, the more severe are the effects of speculation bubble burstings, and the more frequently they happen. And when these occur, tax revenues fall and demands for the already too small amounts of government revenues soar – often to prevent widespread starvation (food stamps) and hypothermia/people freezing to death. and that leads to this Hobbesian choice between keeping people alive or funding other things, like bloated military expenditures or the meager subsidies for rernewable energy. Guess which one almost invariably comes up on the short end of the stick…..
At this point, it's either more indebtedness of chopping subsidies. And now comes along the drive for Austerity (= stupidity, insanity, etc) and the crazy, disproven to work theories of the neo-liberals, like von Hayek: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/philip-pilkington-the-origins-of-neoliberalism-part-iii-europe-and-the-centre-left-fall-under-hayeks-spell.html
Feed-In Tariffs (FITs) and the next best alternative, massive Request for Proposals renewable energy allocations (quotas, which are rarely of the size needed) do not require ANY government subsides that allow below the cost of production renewable energy to be sold (the difference made up with the subsidies). Customers for the electricity pick up the total tab. For example, in Quebec (where quotas are used), RFPs were issued and the winning bids were around 10.5 c/kw-hr for wind projects. But they have wind resources significantly better than those that exist in NY State (similar to the Great Plains wind resources), so the cost of electricity production is a lot lower than in NY State. And yet, in NY State, the going rate for the price paid to electricity generators this year will be in the 3 to 4 c/kw-hr range. So a huge variety of subsidies (MACRS, ITC or PTC, State RPS, for starts) are needed to take 11 c/kw-hr (or more, due to that casino electricity pricing that raises the cost of borrowing money significantly, which raises the cost of production) electricity able to be "sold" at 3 to 4 c/kw-hr. Take away the subsidies, and that ends any prospect for green energy installations and jobs derived from making and installing these.
Oh well, at least this is not PV, where the actual cost of production (subsidy free basis) is still above 50 c/kw-hr, and subsidies needed to allow this to be sold at 3 to 4 c/kw-hr are humongous. It's a loser game
As for the idea that CO2 pollution taxes will make renewables more economically viable, that too is absurd. Renewables need viable prices, period; the cost to make renewable energy (biomass based excepted) are not a function of pollution based electricity generation. But that "carbon taxes are good for renewables" fallacy dies hard. Shame on environmentalists for perpetuating such ignorance…. assuming they have shame on that aspect of things. It seems to be too much like a religion…
In the 1990s there was much pressure on the renewable energy industries to claim they could be job-creating, more so than the fossil industries. I was worried about the pressure to over-accommodate then, just as I am now. The message needs to be crystal clear: fossil fuel combustion kills and maims human beings and puts major ecological systems at risk. Prematurely dead people don't need jobs; but their families most certainly must have needed them to live longer.
Echoing the sentiments of many here: superb job, Stephen Lacey, and may the wind be at your back going forward. So to speak. :)
Clearly, there is a need to reframe this issue, but all the suggestions miss the real challenge and opportunity. World population is expected to max out at 10 – 12 billion people within the next fifty years. This is within the lifetime of most people under 30 today. In spite of this, there is no comprehensive vision from either the left or right of how we will meet the needs of all these people with the resources at our disposal. Lacking such a vision, most young people assume it cannot be done, and live their lives accordingly. Provide them with a comprehensive and comprehendable vision, and the political support will follow.


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[JR: The "Bridge to Nowhere" is at its heart an energy story, since it is a transportation infrastructure story, and the country will have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars redesigning its infrastructure by midcentury to deal with peak oil and global warming.]
VP choice Sarah Palin keeps repeating her lie that she said "thanks but no thanks" to the "Bridge to Nowhere" — even in the face of unusually strong and widespread media debunking and strong visual evidence to the contrary. When Fox News' Chris Wallace debunks your multiple lies, it's probably time, at the very least, to work up some new lies.
Either Slick Sarah cynically believes that you can fool all the people all the time, much as Bush and McCain do, or Prevaricatin' Palin has actually come to believe her own lies, much as Bush and McCain do.
And, of course, Slick Sarah is an old-style lobbyist-hiring pol, who may well be the queen of pork (see "Note to media: Pork queen Palin is an earmark expert, NOT energy expert"). Slick Sarah and her lobbyists lined Alaskan pockets with U.S. taxpayer money to the tune of $4000 per citizen of Wasilla. But McCain "can't wait to introduce her to Washington." If she replicates that "success" on a national level as VP, that would be more than $1 trillion in earmarks.
Slick Sarah is all hat and no moose. She's the make-believe Maverick.
Her obsessive phoniness in the face of the facts, I think, suggests a defining nickname to describe what appears to be a fundamental character flaw. Memorable nicknames usually use one of the memorable rhetorical figures of speech — alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyming, metaphor, or pun. [Yes, that is a bit redundant: Almost all of the figures of speech were developed 25 centuries ago specifically to aid the memory of both the speaker and the listener.] For instance, "Sarah Barracuda" is metaphor and assonance/consonance combined. Very memorable.
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Excellent points.
"Sarah Slick the Make-Believe Maverick" rhymes and rolls of the tongue better.
Plainly, Palin is a ridiculous choice on every count, but here's the problem – the people who are excited about here DON'T CARE. They don't think like you and me. Instead, she some how "completes" them. "She has backbone."
Watch the Frank Luntz-led focus group and notice why some people react so positively. Notice how Luntz is looking hard to understand why people thought it was a bad choice.
Like the vid clip that had the talking heads speaking (what they thought was) off-mic, it's a very cynical choice. They are outright lying in their campaign and playing the media very well.
But look at the overall campaign the Repubs are running. My dad ran political campaigns for many years, so I've been around dozens of them. And I have to say that the Repubs have the advantage and – despite the fact that the last 8 years have been a disaster – unless the Dems change their tune right quick they are going to go down again. I said this in 2000 and 2004, it is the Dems to win, and they aren't winning it. At this point.
Again, it looks like they don't know how to finish.
Clearly McCain and the Repugs have appealed to the reptilian center of the brain. Please no flames.
You undermined your argument on Obama's alleged lack of experience when McCain selected a governor with less than two years of experience. She's just a heartbeat away from the office that would be held by the oldest man elected to the presidency and who has had 4 bouts with melanoma. At least Bush was in the Texas Governor's Mansion for six years. That's not saying much though given the Texas Governor had serverly limited power when Bush was Governor.
Rick C, I'm with ya but the Repubs have the momentum and are controlling the dialogue.
I was away all day yesterday and this morning I see the lead story was "the controversy" over the lipstick on a pig thing. Fer chrissake, are you kidding me? That led? Unbelievable.
Unless the Dems get some message makeover, there's no way the experience thing is going to get play. No way. They aren't even in the same league when it comes to crafting message that works. Their TV ads are rife with their pat phrases that elicit emotion. Dems? Eh.
And I rarely vote Repub, save for one or two local guys that were better than the knob Dem that was running. But the Rs are controlling the game.
Porky Palin is the best I have read:
Thanks for the excellent reminder from your book, " Hell & High Water" of the power of language.
This memory may not inject much enlightenment into the discussion, but I have been reminded of the 96 Clinton approach. For one part of their message control they continued with a repeating mantra, " Education, Environment, etc…..(there were four and I cant remember the last two.)
Of course, at the time, Bob Dole was already framed by the Clintons as basically the "old guy" and Karl Rove hadn't yet fully emerged with his bag of tricks.
I wonder, has the combination of the all out cultural war approach emphasizing race & gay marriage baiting together with electoral caging al la Ohio become something even Bill Clinton himself would find too much to handle?
Her obsessive phoniness in the face of the facts, I think, suggests a defining nickname to describe what appears to be a fundamental character flaw. Memorable nicknames usually use one of the memorable rhetorical figures of speech — alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyming, metaphor, or pun. [Yes, that is a bit redundant: Almost all of the figures of speech were developed 25 centuries ago specifically to aid the memory of both the speaker and the listener.] For instance, "Sarah Barracuda" is metaphor and assonance/consonance combined. Very memorable.


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It wasn't pretty by most standards, but that's just fine with Bill Cowher, Jerome Bettis, the Steelers and their thousands of rowdy fans, who wound up the big winners on Super Bowl Sunday.
Save for a few big plays that changed the game, style points were hard to come by on America's annual football holiday. But to Pittsburgh, the 21-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks was beautiful — a gritty grind of a game that included just enough flair to transform a blue-collar team playing in a blue-collar city into champions.
In a stadium brimming with thousands of Pittsburgh fans waving Terrible Towels, the Steelers finally captured their fifth title, that "One for the Thumb" that the Steelers have been waiting for since 1980.
People in Pittsburgh poured out of bars and houses immediately after the Steelers won the game, filling a 10-block area, reports CBS News reporter Kristine Sorenson. They hugged, kissed, waved their Terrible Towels and chanted Steelers songs. Several people were arrested, mainly for public intoxication and disorderly conduct, but in all, the celebration was rowdy but mostly positive.
Pittsburgh tied San Francisco and Dallas with its five Super Bowl titles.
Title No. 5 for Pittsburgh was the first for jut-jawed Cowher, a 14-year veteran, and for Bettis, The Bus, who said he would end his 13-year career with a win in his hometown, only a few miles from where he grew up.
"I played this game to win a championship," he said. "I'm a champion and I think the last stop is here, in Detroit."
"It's surreal," Cowher said. "I'm going to tell you, this is a special group of coaches, a special group of players. I was one small part of this."
When it was over, Cowher found himself drenched, with water from the traditional dousing given to him by his players — and with tears, as he hugged his wife and daughters. It was a scene much different than one 10 years ago, when the Steelers lost in the Super Bowl and Cowher had to do most of the consoling.
Two plays made a difference in this one: Willie Parker's record-setting 75-yard run for a touchdown right after halftime and receiver Antwaan Randle El's 43-yard touchdown pass to Hines Ward on a trick play that put the Steelers up by 11 early in the fourth quarter.
Before that, it was Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones making most of the best moves.
Jagger strutted his stuff during a three-song set, two of which contained obscenities that the NFL chose to bleep out. There would be no reprisal of the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" this year thanks to the network's decision to air everything on a five-second delay.
The Stones were stars of a halftime show the NFL had been seeking for years — so long, in fact, that the league turned a celebration of the Motown sound that has long defined Detroit into a pregame-show undercard.
That didn't sit well in the Motor City during the lead-up to the game, but Detroit got its due.
Super Steelers!
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Good animation quality, sub par audio. I'm not an MLP fan but i ain't an enemy of it either. Your work was decent and presentable, but for future reference, using FMA, if your going to do that, please, please, PLEASE.... Work out the kinks. Twilight Sparkles hair kept falling off in the behind the head running scene. A little more appeal in the chorus would have been nice too.
Your work was decent though so you get this score from me.
Yeh I had to go through a huge process of getting the music so that's why it soundsl ike it's been run through a cheese grater. But this most likely will be the only piece of FMA-related animation I plan to do.
But thanks man :) I try to make my animations as clean as possible, but given this was a first project of course there are several flying or static tweens and curved edges when they should be straight.
Im mixed. It is animated well and it flows with your concept, but the music track is somewhat painful to listen to.
yeah i have to find a way o get cleaner audio, but thanks for the compliments and rating :)
Love it
Your overdesire for Mlp overrides your desire for FMA, doesn't it? You should appreciate the stuff that isn't for 2 year olds.
Yeah FMA isn't rly my cup of tea, I just thought the intro was cool and needed more ponies :x
I will never be able to look at mlp the same way again because of this...
hmm, well hopefully you can enjoy your new vision of MLP :)


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By Todd Franko (Contact)
T.J. Assion is my poster boy for the struggle that is government operations.
He is the union president of the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department and, generally, a good guy to spend a few beers with and talk football, kids, or in the case of the past year that I have been watching county pay raises, county operations from his colleagues' viewpoint.
The deputies have a lot to say about county compensation.
They are the work force that, as you read this today, gave $3 million back to the county over the past three years in the form of wage reductions, surrendered uniform fees, hazard pay and a host of other concessions. In 2010, 210 jail beds were closed and 66 deputies were laid off — increasing the work burdens on the remaining staff.
I first met Assion last January, not long after I wrote about the crazy pay raises of 15 percent and more in the office of county Prosecutor Paul J. Gains. At that time, though he had tones of frustration in his voice for the imbalance in county worker pay issues, he was strongly loyal to his county peers, even applauding Gains for going to bat the way he did for his workers.
That was in January, or better put, $600,000 in pay raises ago.
In those nine or so months, deputies are still on layoff, attack incidents on officers, according to Assion, have risen inside the jail, and cells stay closed.
Today, Assion's tone is a bit different.
Over the summer, $225,000 in pay raises were handed out around county operations.
"It's pretty sad when a cook at the juvenile center or a typist in the veterans' office make more than deputies, who put their lives at risk," said Assion when presented with the latest data.
Like many of the trends in county pay, much of the new money is going to folks who aren't making a ton of cash. Of the 240 staffers who received raises from May to August, 70 of them have annual salaries under $30,000; 60 people earned between $30,000 and $50,000.
But 18 raises went to people, mainly managers, making more than $60,000 annually, including county Health Commissioner Matthew Stefanak, who earned his third raise in 12 months to total $103,000.
Of the $225,000 in raises, about $114,000 of that went to Judge Theresa Dellick's juvenile-court area. The raises were 3 percent or 4 percent in just about all instances. Of the 103 staffers to get raises there, half earn less than $30,000 and tended to be the ones who received the 4 percent bumps. Upper staff received the 3 percent.
"We're very cognizant of how hard it is economically in our community," said Anthony D'Apolito, juvenile court administrator and magistrate. "We would not want to slap anyone in the face by disregarding the challenges that exist in the community we serve."
D'Apolito said offering raises was a tough decision, but was made with several factors in mind.
In 2009, juvenile court staffers took 5 percent pay cuts. Since that time, the court has trimmed staffing by 48 employees overall, and cut $1 million in spending drawn from the sales tax. They're also anticipating an impact on staffers in whatever shakes out from the Issue 2 process, especially increased shares in health-care costs.
"It's my honest-to-God opinion that we're trying to do the right thing for people doing their best to serve in a depressed county that is also a cynical county because of the past governments. I know the perception that's out there. I hope we can overcome it," D'Apolito added.
The county health board raises bother me a bit more, and illustrate to me the problems that will roll on with government spending regardless of what Issue 2 attempts to fix.
It's a $5 million annual agency with about 70 percent of the funds coming from some form of taxes — local property, federal payments and incremental amounts from local governments.
Its 39 staff raises in June and July were like the court's in that they were capped — these at 2 percent. But opposite of juvenile court, the health board's lower paid staffers received 1 percent compared to 2 percent for upper staff, including Stefanak.
But what bothers me more about the board's trend is this: D'Apolito acknowledges it's a depressed county, and that staff sat flat on their pay for two years after taking a 5 percent cut. Assion's deputy co-workers have totaled $3 million in givebacks since 2009, including a 10 percent pay cut that is still in place.
But since 2009, the health board's pay raises have just rolled along without pause. In 2008, the top health staffers took a six-month pay cut by dropping to four-day workweeks.
The pay was restored in 2009 and topped off with 3 percent raises. Raises in 2010 totaled 2.75 percent. In January, Stefanak and four other top staffers received raises up to 1.5 percent. And finally, they got an additional 2 percent this summer.
Stefanak, who's retiring next year, said his staff, like others, is doing more with less, and the raises are an attempt to keep quality people.
The board had 63 staffers in 2007, and now has 48 people. Of those reductions, five were upper-management posts.
Both the court and the health department employed identical rationale that is just not working in the private sector, or with the deputies — which is justifying the raises due to increased duties. Piling on duties is happening virtually everywhere, including the jail, with no compensation changes tied to it in most cases that I know of.
Another logic annoyance I have with the health board mind-set: One staffer who was promoted a few years ago from within the department has had raises of 5 percent or 6 percent each of the past three years to get that position's pay level to $70,000 — what it is at peer health districts.
Stefanak said peer pay was the same logic for the January 2011 raises of 1.5 percent for him and a few other top staffers. (That same logic was employed with beefy Youngstown State University raises that I pointed out this summer.)
There is no legal requirement for that. It's a tool used more when you have to do it, not when you just want to do it.
But this board wants to do it.
Reasoning for that, to me, is this: Why does the top boss, Stefanak, need raises of 2.75 percent, 1.5 percent and 2 percent over the past 12 months when he is retiring next year? He's not about to leap to a better-paying health district in Franklin County.
Hence, it's not about peer and position.
It's about power and pension.
And when you see it across so many pockets of government, you realize it's not just a YSU thing; it's not just a health board thing; and, ultimately — because these are management jobs — it's not an Issue 2 thing.
It will, however, be a deputy thing.
The government body that's given the most will, soon enough, have many of their $3 million concessions up for review.
And Assion's been keeping score. He has a little less esprit de corps about all of this than he did back in January.
Government actions, in time, even wear out government staffers.
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It's money from Heaven - at least for those lucky enough to be slopping at the trough. The Deputies should be getting paid better, but they are not - is that the taxpayers fault or the fault of the people elected to make such decisions?
However, our local government with the support of the media and the government vendors will tell us to RASIE TAXES to balance the playing field.
The problem with that, is that there isn't any money left and Mahoning County continues to tax, waste and spend itself into a bottomless pit.
Very sad.
Lets not forget-this is the area time forgot. How dare anyone try to earn a decent wage in Mahoning County. It is almost laughable that this is news. Three percent raises, those are some huge wage increases.What could the cook make...I am guessing around $35,000 give or take-wow that is a small fortune. I forgot, this is the area of "I never got off the bar stool to get mine so noone else can achieve anything". What a sad pitiful area....
You've got it all wrong. Public employees only work about 50% of the time - so they are way overpaid - even the deputies.
Don't get "sucked in" to having sympathy for these lazy government employees. They don't deserve anything they don't get.
You may be correct Paul. It just seems there is alot of bashing towards anyone who does try provide for themselves be it private industry or the public sector. And truth be told I dont feel the MSO needs a union, maybe a young, progressive thinking Sheriff
You are right about the low wages, and I've said that several times over this year-long look at county raises. And I did so in this piece.
This is not a look at wages; it's a look at new spending in an era when new revenues are tough to find for anyone -- public or private.
If you work for Apple or a Marcellus Shale outfit, you likely have new revenues to spread around your staff. Do it, and love it, and buy a new Cruze with it.
But new revenues for anyone else -- especially government -- are hard to find. That's certainly true for the Valley. That's certainly true these last 3 years.
The raises in this piece are hardly as lucrative as what Gains did in January. But in fairness to all, and especially the deputies, it ALL deserves examination.
The health department especially fits this, and I swallowed hard a bit in calling these guys this week because I kind of see it like you. Yes, it was only 2 percent in June. But it was 1.5 percent 6 months ago. And it was 2.75 6 months before that. And 3.00 12 months before that.
Pile on that philosophy across one department's entire workforce, then across many departments, and what you have is "We need a new tax levy because we can't afford to operate."
I don't agree with paulparks' "lazy" charge, and I hate that doing these stories subjects people -- some of them friends of mine and Vindy customers -- to unfair charges like that.
But I hope we can overcome the low points of this debate and see the bigger issues.
Todd, I too have friends in the public sector and private industries. Some are lazy and will be lazy at no matter what job they have and others love to work and assist their fellow man. You are right though-revenues in Mahoning County are just not there and sadly I think they will keep decreasing. I will admit I am a cynic but after 40 plus years of hearing the same rhetoric from this area and just watching it get worse every day gets old. Anyway, thank you for a lively dIscussion on an otherwise boring Sunday morning. You dont seem as mean spirited as I originally thought-we probably share some of the same opinions. Have a good day and enjoy the weather while it lasts.
Nice reply Todd,
What most public employees fail to acknowledge is most if not all private companies provide no where near the benefits and perks they once provided'
Why you ask, because the economics are just not there to provide them anymore, not because they are greedy, but because our economic climate has been forever changed due to 9/11, NAFTA, 2008 Mortgage/Bank meltdown among a few. Our country will probably never be the same either. Can we get out of this, yes but the same never, reflect on 9/11 and my point is well supported.
As far as the Mortgage/Bank issues that is not just in the USA, it is a worldwide issue also.
So Todd, we have to get the public employees to understand that how things were done before are not how things are going to be done in the future, get used to it.
This is not about doing more with less, it is about right sizing like most corporations have endured, why do they feel they are exempt, the formula should include options to adjust if the conditions warrant, among other options, if they want to negotiate for more employees, then the rest may need to sacrifice if there is no options for additional taxes to support it/
I will use the last Boardman Township Tax Levy as an example.
Do not run a campaign like Boardman Township did using spoon fed gloom and doom articles supported by your newspaper and by the way have disappeared since it was passed, to only shift the lion share of the money to the general fund, Then only turn around and look for more funds from the sales tax, do you honestly feel if they were to accomplish that that they would give back the last two levies to the residents of Boardman, I think not.
But anyway Todd, keep informing the taxpayers and stop allowing them to manipulate you into campaigning for them to get tax levies passed when we just cannot afford more.
Isn't what Kasich did with his staff the same, if not worse than whats going on here? Show the same outrage with gov. Kasich giving his favorites double digit raises with the same furor as you do here!
...watch those retiring now will try to get the same position working for the private contractor that will provide future county health department services...you know the same one they have been negotiating with...lol
As long as the SPINdicator (as ytown1 correctly pointed out) keeps repeating and not reporting the REAL stories - the citizens of Mahoning County will have tax and levies shoved down their throats every primary, special election and general election, because the SPINdicator makes big bucks with government ads. But it is not just the SPIndicator - Clear Channel Radio and Bill Kelly make sure the taxpayers giveth until it hurts too.
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Thank you sir for the great writing. It is time the public found out about some of those dirty, little secrets! I don't work for the county. I have been (at facility) 15 years and have become friends with many a deputy. What they have given up over the years is shameful. I will never understand why those who put their life on the line are not compensated for it. Would any of our judges or other departments want to sit in a huge room with 36 alleged murderers, rapists, child molesters milling around them for peanuts? I think not. Well, there is so much more, but we all need our jobs. Again I thank you for a fantastic article.
Mr Franko -- Maybe I missed something related to the pay raises in the county prosecutor's office: Mr Gains found the time to create-from-scratch a letter for Mr Betras as a political favor that the chairman then hand-carried to the secretary of state last week, but Gains could not find the time to provide some already-existing material to a defense attorney, thus causing a judge a couple of weeks ago to dismiss murder charges?
Mr Franko, when younhave the opportunity, would you Please tell us, Mr Prosecutor, that you wrote Mr Betras' letter on your OWN time since your taxpayer funded work-day is sooooo busy that you cannot give any attention to a lowly, minor, devil-may-care MURDER case.
(please excuse the above comment -- my iPad jumped the gun)
Mr Franko -- Maybe I missed something related to the pay raises in the county prosecutor's office: Mr Gains found the time to create-from-scratch a letter for Mr Betras as a political favor that the chairman then hand-carried to the secretary of state last week, but Gains could not find the time to provide some already-existing material to a defense attorney, thus causing a judge a couple of weeks ago to dismiss murder charges.
Mr Franko, when you have the opportunity, would you please ask the prosecutor: Mr Gains, did you write Mr Betras' letter on your OWN time since your taxpayer funded work-day is sooooo busy that you cannot give any attention to a lowly, minor, devil-may-care MURDER case?
The above story and some of the comments are reasons SB 5 is the wrong answer. Those same deputies (and firemen, cops, road workers, utility workers, etc.) who are underpaid by your own admission, are the same ones who will bear the brunt of the "punishment" that SB 5 hands out.
Your problem is with the prosecutor's office being overpaid? Go after them, not the people who just go to work every day, do what's expected of them, and endure ever-more browbeating from the pro-SB 5 crowd.
There are examples all over the valley, as well as in your editorial, that collective bargaining works. Public employees all over the valley have given concessions, given back raises, been on pay freezes for multiple years, and so on. Lumping them in with the handful who continue to abuse their authority says clearly that the real agenda isn't about fiscal sacrifice.
jessiedavid, nothing about collective bargaining is or has been either secret or a scam. You don't like it. I get that. You think public employees are getting something you're not, and instead of working and striving to get that for yourself (you know, the way Republicans used to be?) you instead take the easy way out, and demand everyone else be brought down to your level. I get that, too. But don't repeat obvious propaganda and conspiracy theories and expect anyone who's not already drinking the KoolAid to take you seriously.
jessiedavid, I'm not scared, and I'm not verbally attacking anyone. If you think disagreeing with you constitutes a verbal attack, you need to grow some thicker skin. You're not "merely asking legitimate questions" - you're purposefully using inflammatory rhetoric, I guess to elicit an emotional response. If I called you a coward, said you were stealing your wages instead of earning them, called you immoral, and said I can't wait until you and yours are out of a job (those are all just from the above post - your other posts are full of such garbage), you'd be crying and offended all over the place. But you're only parroting Kasich's talking points. Everyone knows - public and private sector alike - that Kasich has a clear agenda to crush public employee unions and whip the public workers into submission. Most people can put two and two together and realize the private sector unions are next.
I'd like to see you, and only you, get your wish - I'd like to see you, and only you, live in a world without cops, firemen, nurses, teachers, utility workers, and so on. I don't wish that on anybody else, but since you're just giddy in anticipation of more of the middle class losing their jobs, I say you should have it.
I'll repeat from my first post - if the problem is one out-of-touch group, go after that group. Don't screw over the people who aren't demanding raises, who aren't working part time and being compensated as if they were full time, and who aren't the problem.
I was from out of state and didn't know anyone when I moved here in 1983. I obtained a County job through hard work and getting to know people while working in the private sector (10 years). This BS about Public workers and the Private sector is crap. The reality if you want to face it: this Administration is waging a war of American vs American. We would not even be in this BS if he did not want chaos. It is called "Class Warfare". Wake up and quit fighting each other. We are all peons in his mind. Unless you make 10 million a year as he made last year. He has over one Billion in his Campaign chest:. Really. Don't ya think he is going to reap some of that "Obama Stash?". Worker against worker is playing into their hands. SB5 will not make that much difference in the public sector any way. So you have to pay a little more for you Health Insurance. Welcome to the real world my friends. Most are non union workers. We need to get real and realize who the real enemy is. It is not each other.....


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