I have mixed feelings about giving businesses tax breaks and government bailouts, but I do like the idea of the government helping push us towards more wind, solar, wave, and other types of energy. Michigan has a lot of skilled labor, and it would be nice to see some renewable energy manufacturing going on in Detroit. I recently read a Wall Street Journal article about a firm that is planning to put up a wind farm. Great, except they're hoping the federal stimulus money they're applying for will be sent to China, and used to hire Chinese workers to make the windmills.
Some of the money is coming directly from China, but how about we keep federal stimulus money in the country as a general guideline? I don't see why we need to pay companies to hire workers in other countries to do work we could do here.
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