Subject: [big campaign] FW: STATEMENT: Response to Heritage Foundation's "Just Say No to Jobs" Panel
From: Adam Jentleson <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 17:10:17 -0400
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In case you are following the Heritage "just say no to green jobs" panel today, here are some resources for pushing back.

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From: Center for American Progress [mailto:[email-masked]]
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Subject: STATEMENT: Response to Heritage Foundation's "Just Say No to Jobs" Panel

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For Immediate Release
May 4, 2009

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STATEMENT: Response to Heritage Foundation's "Just Say No To Jobs" Panel

By Senior Fellow Bracken Hendricks<http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/HendricksBracken.html>

"When it comes to Professor Calzada and the naysayers at the Heritage Foundation, I can sum up their arguments in five words: 'just say no to jobs.'

"Apparently they don't believe in Americans' ability to innovate our way out of this crisis - just like we've innovated our way out of every other crisis we've face in our history.  They don't seem to have faith in the hard work and ingenuity of America's small businessmen and women - because the policy they spent all day criticizing would prime the pump for innovation and investment from the private sector that would create millions of jobs by Amerian businesses for American workers.

"They just don't get it -- at a time when we desperately need leadership, the Heritage Foundation is offering more of the same shortsighted obstructionism that got us here.

"The fact is, dollar for dollar, an investment in green technology infrastructure creates four times as many jobs as an investment in the oil and gas industry.  Transitioning to clean sources of energy is the best way to create jobs here in America, and end our dependence on foreign oil."

For more information, please see these green jobs resources:

"Seven Questions About Green Jobs: Why the Most Productive Jobs of the Future Will Be Green Jobs"
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/green_recovery.html

"Green Recovery: A New Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy"
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/green_recovery.html

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