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PITTSBURGH welcomes G-20, rocking da house with "Clean Energy Jobs Now!" concert

Rockers, Politicians, Unions To Rally For Clean Energy Today

PITTSBURGH -- Despite some downtown streets being closed, a rally for clean energy jobs hopes to attract a few thousand people to Pittsburgh's Point State Park on the eve of the G-20 economic summit.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers and Kathy Mattea are among the acts scheduled to appear tonight at "Clean Energy Jobs Now!" Start time is 6 p.m.Members of the United Steelworkers and other unions say they will be there, along with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato and Gov. Ed Rendell.

On David Letterman, President Obama puts emphasis on Clean Energy for fast track to economic recovery

A couple of days after President Obama's appearance on David Letterman, people are still talking about his comments on healthcare and the fact that he claimed he was black before he became president, as an attempt to put the racial issue to rest (probably because the issue was re-ignited recently by President Carter).

 

What very few people seem to have paid attention to is Obama's comments on the state of the economy and some of his ideas on how to get it back on track.  Of course it doesn't help that CBS only made a couple of clips from that show available on Youtube and has since diligently enforced the removal of any segment that was posted by other YouTube users, but luckily someone posted some audios, probably hoping to dodge CBS's persistent suppression of information attempts.

    

Now here's the part that interests me the most....the part where the economy and CLEAN ENERGY are the focal points:

President Obama says:

 

We are not out of the woods yet....things are still fragile...most economists think that we'll start growing this quarter for the first time, but the problem that we've got, the biggest problem that we have right now, is that employment lags, so even when businesses start to invest, they don't start hiring people back right away and obviously folks are going through incredible hardship because of that loss of employment. That means that the housing market is still weaker, it means that people are still having a hard time paying their bills....

 

...even when the economy is going well, one of the great things about the US economy is it's dynamic, and so people are starting their own businesses, moving to better jobs, they're deciding to move to another state in search of other opportunities, so there is always turnover in terms of employment.  The problem right now, we lost so many jobs over the last year and a half....I mean when I came into office we were losing 700 jobs a month!  And what ends up happening then is, that trying to make up for all those losses in the last year is going to take some time, we're going to have to grow in a much faster clip...

 

(4:50) ...the single most important task for my administration and my economic advisers is how we make sure that we put people back to work...now there is some areas like for example Clean Energy, that has huge potential!  Every building all across the United States probably could use some retrofitting to make it much more energy efficient.  Doing that, that one thing, could put hundreds of thousands of people back to work and that's why we emphasize things such as Clean Energy.

YAY for Clean Energy!

Hang in there folks...