Comments on: Green for All: Weatherize NYC http://grittv.org/2009/11/06/green-for-all-weatherize-nyc/ Cultivating a Better Conversation Sat, 14 May 2011 01:31:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: iremember54 http://grittv.org/2009/11/06/green-for-all-weatherize-nyc/comment-page-1/#comment-2077 iremember54 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:50:31 +0000 http://www.grittv.org/?p=2535#comment-2077 Yes weatherizing is great and beneficial, but if it has to be done with taxpayers money, the jobs only last till the money runs out. We paid to do what normal people wouldn't pay for. Some people will get rich on these programs. The workers will find themselves at the unemployment office in a short time, with skills that there is no longer a great call for. So it is a beneficial boondoggle, but a boondoggle just the same. Yes weatherizing is great and beneficial, but if it has to be done with taxpayers money, the jobs only last till the money runs out. We paid to do what normal people wouldn’t pay for.

Some people will get rich on these programs.

The workers will find themselves at the unemployment office in a short time, with skills that there is no longer a great call for.

So it is a beneficial boondoggle, but a boondoggle just the same.

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