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Always To The Right on Friday, May 22, 2009 5:02:05 PM
I suppose this sort of thing can be excused for bills that aren’t very important. Too bad cap and trade — which will shave trillions off of GDP, per Heritage’s estimate — isn’t one of them.
“Title IV, Subtitle B, Part 2, Section 426, of the American
Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 states: ‘An eligible worker
(specifically, workers who lose their jobs as a result of this measure)
may receive a climate change adjustment allowance under this subsection
for a period of not longer than 156 weeks…80 percent of the monthly
premium of any health insurance coverage…up to a maximum payment of
$1,500 in relocation allowance…and job search expenses not exceed[ing]
$1,500.’”
If cap-and-trade is an energy and global warming bill, why is a
three-year package of unemployment benefits, job training and
relocation expenses buried deep within its fine print? And why is a
federally subsidized “job bank” needed if laid-off workers would
quickly be rehired for higher-paying “green” jobs? The fact that
generous unemployment benefits are buried in the bill means that “green
jobs are bunk,” the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Ben Lieberman
told The Examiner.