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More good news like this, please!

by: Blue Girl

Sun Mar 01, 2009 at 14:33:07 PM CST

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Welcome, C&L readers! Have a look around and come back often!

The following is the text of an email I just received from the White House Press Office.  

This is your stimulus at work, folks!

(Washington, DC) The Vice President today commended the new owners of Republic Windows and Doors, a Chicago window manufacturing plant that was shuttered late last year, resulting in the lay-off of its 250 union workers. Republic was purchased in bankruptcy court last week by Serious Materials, a California-based company that makes energy efficient windows. Serious Materials has announced plans to reopen the Republic factory and to eventually rehire all 250 of its laid-off workers at their former pay levels. Serious Materials said it purchased Republic because the Recovery Act will increase demand for its products.

"The reopening of this factory and the rehiring of these workers provide an excellent example of how the money in the Recovery Act is targeted to spur job creation quickly," said Vice President Biden. "These workers will not only earn a paycheck again; they will go back to work creating products that will benefit America's long-term economic future."

At the request of President Obama, Vice President Biden is overseeing the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, working with federal, state and local officials to ensure that money moves quickly and is spent appropriately so that the President's goal of saving or creating 3.5 million jobs is achieved.

"When Republic shut its doors in December, the jobs Illinois lost were not only good paying jobs, they were good for the environment too," said Senator Durbin. "Those are the very jobs we need to preserve in order to put our economy back on track. The economic recovery package has recreated a market for energy efficient materials that virtually disappeared as our economic crisis deepened. With $16 billion available for weatherization programs, companies like Republic will be able to reopen their doors and put people back to work."

Last Friday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Energy announced an historic partnership to streamline and better coordinate federal weatherization efforts to make it much easier for families to weatherize their homes and spur a new home energy efficiency industry that could create tens of thousands of jobs.

HUD and DOE have created a high level interagency task force to coordinate home weatherization efforts under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and to leverage those funds to build a home energy efficiency industry in the U.S. that will: create or retain tens of thousands of jobs, lower energy costs of vulnerable low-income households, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. HUD and DOE will allocate $16 billion in economic recovery funds to retrofit existing homes.

That sound you hear is wingnut heads exploding.  They are the people who would rather see the entire country go down in flames than do anything that might help someone who needs it instead of rewarding someone who doesn't.  The malkinite types would rather live under a bridge and roast roadkill on a curtainrod - so long as the person huddled by the next oil-drum-fire over doesn't even have a curtainrod.  

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This is good news that the folks get back to work.  Our job as citizens is to look out for each other, no doubt. It's just nasty out there. My concern stems from the logic my wife and I try to follow:  When we max out the limit on our credit card should we then go out and get another, or first figure out why we're in the shape we're in.  Now, we've go to get the jobs in gear. But I fear we'll forget about the Visa bill(s) until it shows up in our collective mail boxes.

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You would have no way of knowing this, but I am Ford gal from way back.  I can tell you off the top of my head how many foot-pounds of torque you want on the headbolts when you rebuild the finest internal combustion engine ever made (the 351 C - the answer is 110) and I  have owned exactly one GM product and two Chryslers in 30 years of driving.  

Ask me some time how I used a pair of dance tights and the elastic waistband from a pair of Hanes Her Way french-cut panties to repair a blown radiator hose and get my kids and dogs back to civilization on a deserted stretch of Idaho blacktop in the middle of the night...

Anyway, I'm glad you are here!  Have a look around, feel free to chime in and come back frequently.  We know what work is in these parts, and we are union-friendly, too.  

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