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Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. The unglamorous work of insulating crawl spaces and attics had emerged as a silver bullet in a bleak economy – able to create jobs and shrink carbon footprint – and the announcement came with great fanfare.
A "silver bullet"? Kind of like hiring someone to dig a ditch....and then fill it back in with dirt.
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As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program.
So basically the government is loaning money to enter this program, where the recipient pays twice as much as the job would cost if done by an existing company that installs sealed crawlspaces. Way to take away MORE work from the private sector and further gouge the consumer!
So basically the government is loaning money to enter this program, where the recipient pays twice as much as the job would cost if done by an existing company that installs sealed crawlspaces. Way to take away MORE work from the private sector and further gouge the consumer!
Even worse than that. I read a report about 6 months ago that claimed scammers were out in force, sucking up the money and doing shoddy work that had to be redone.
How could anyone think THIS kind of project would stimulate anything?
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