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VOL. 115 - NO. 4 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY 28, 2011 $.30 A COPY Faneuil Hall Figure Skating Do You Remember? Ice skating at Faneuil Hall is a new attraction until February 27th. To inaugurate the opening was (l-r) Bruins star Ken Hodge, Bruins Ice Girl Niki, Figure Skater Megan Wessenberg, Bruins Ice Girl Kasey and Mix 104.1 FM’s Can you identify anyone in this photo? Gregg Daniels. (Photo courtesy of Pat Barrasso) (Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) Malkin Has it Right on Green Jobs in Mass by Edward P. Shallow Michelle Malkin put in Juan Carlos University in since its founding in 1994, perfect perspective how the Madrid, said the United accumulated a total deficit of Bay State’s $58 million States should expect results more than $630 million. Last green jobs was a boondoggle: similar to those of Spain: month, it engineered a re- News Briefs And I quote: “Spain’s experience, (cited verse stock split to maintain by Sal Giarratani The myth that “green jobs” by President Obama as a capital requirements for the are a boon to the economy model) reveals with high main NASDAQ stock ex- keeps being pierced by failed confidence, by two different change. Before the split, green jobs boondoggle after methods, that the U.S. should Evergreen’s stock had been With Vicki Out of the Picture failed green jobs boondoggle. expect a loss of at least 2.2 trading at about 50 cents. Now that Vicki Kennedy has taken herself out As I noted in April 2000, jobs on average, or about 9 Evergreen did not say what of the upcoming 2012 U.S. Senate race against the truth about green jobs jobs lost for every 4 created, would happen to the solar- Republican Scott Brown, it appears Massachu- has been told all over the to which we have to add those panel assembly work now setts will see jockeying taking place among world. Case in point: Spain. jobs that non-subsidized in- done at Devens, but the com- several big name Democrats waiting on Every “green job” created vestments with the same pany noted it would continue Kennedy’s decision. Had she decided to go for with government money in resources would have cre- to operate facilities in China the race against Brown, many believe the nomi- Spain over the last eight ated, “wrote Calzada in his and Michigan. nation would have been hers. Now things years came at the cost of report: Study of the Effects on But it was just a few short change. Two names constantly coming up are 2.2 regular jobs, and only one Employment of Public Aid to years ago the company was U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano who was a failed U.S. in 19 of the newly created Renewable Energy Sources. a darling in the eyes of the Senate candidate in the primary against Martha green jobs became a perma- The latest green jobs fail- Patrick administration, Coakley who eventually went on to lose to Brown nent job, says a new study ure in Massachusetts is no which offered Evergreen a one year ago and U.S. Rep. Stevie Lynch, the released this month. The surprise: rich package of grants, land, most conservative-leaning member of the all- study draws parallels with Evergreen Solar Inc, which loans, and other aid — some Democrat Massachusetts delegation in the U.S. the green jobs program of the received $58 million in state $76 million in all — to build House. Obama administration. aid to open a factory in 2008 a new facility at Devens. My money is on Lynch, who would give Brown President Obama, in fact, at the former military base The company eventually ac- a good run. Lynch could win one on one against has used Spain’s green ini- in Devens, announced it cepted $58.5 million, one of the incumbent Brown. The dynamics that tiative as a blueprint for how would shut the plant and let the largest investments elected Brown in that special election have the United States should use go 800 workers by the end of Massachusetts has made in changed. This time around Brown is not the federal funds to stimulate this quarter. a private company. Rocky Balboa underdog. the economy. Obama’s eco- The solar-panel plant is a They should start calling Fearless Leader Calls for Unity nomic stimulus package, cornerstone of Governor them “brown jobs” — to re- which Congress passed in Deval Patrick’s efforts to flect the color of the sewer Would it surprise you to know that I didn’t February, allocated billions make Massachusetts a hub down which untold millions listen to Our Fearless Leader’s eulogy to the of dollars to the green jobs for the emerging clean en- have been flushed in the victims of the January 8 shootings in Tucson, industry. ergy industry. name of environmental (Continued on Page 10) However, the author of the The company lost $54 mil- stimulus. study, Dr. Gabriel Calzada, lion through the first nine Comments, please send to an economics professor at months of 2010, and has [email protected] THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, JANUARY 28, 2011 Res Publica by David Trumbull Government is not the Solution to our Problem; GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM ARRIVEDERCI AUGUSTUS We stand between two rule, that government by It has been said by some ing men of the Equestrian other members of his fam- notable dates in 20th Cen- an elite group is superior to that the death of Augustus Order and placed in his mau- ily which were to follow. The tury American history. Eight government for, by, and of and his later deification soleum. After his death no tomb was completed and days after January 20th — the the people. Well, if no one were known in advance by one entered the room in remained empty for about 30th anniversary of the among us is capable of gov- unmistakable signs. I have which he was born it was five years. The fickle finger beginning of Ronald erning himself, then who taken the time to investi- unless it was of extreme of fate then pointed to young Reagan’s first term as Presi- among us has the capacity gate and to research those necessity and only after pu- Marcellus, the one whose dent, and eight days before to govern someone else? All so-called unmistakable signs rification. A legend tells that death was least expected, February 6th — the cente- of us together, in and out of and find them too ridiculous those who approach the and most bitterly lamented nary of Mr. Reagan’s birth. government, must bear the to mention. I believe it would room without ceremony are by the Emperor himself, the When President Reagan burden. The solutions we be most appropriate to sim- overtaken with shuddering nephew of Augustus and suc- took office our nation was seek must be equitable, with ply say that he called his and terror. A new owner of cessor in the Empire, who in a bad way. Decades of lib- no one group singled out to friends around his death the house went to bed in that became the tomb’s first ten- eral Democratic policies pay a higher price. bed and asked whether it room either by chance or to ant. Eleven years later (that the “me-too” Republi- “So, as we begin, let us seemed to them that he had test the legend. A story is told Marcus Agrippa became the cans of the day did not effec- take inventory. We are a played the comedy of life fitly that after a few hours into second occupant. Octavia, tively rebut) had brought us nation that has a govern- and then added “if this be the night he was thrown out the sister of Augustus was high taxes, even higher ment — not the other way true, then all clap your by a mysterious force, and next, and then came Lucius spending, neglect of our around. And this makes us hands and from the stage of was found in his bed clothes, the young son of Agrippa. national defense and lack special among the nations of life dismiss me with ap- seriously injured lying be- Caius, another young son of self-assurance on the the Earth. Our government plause.” He passed away as fore the door. of Agrippa soon followed world stage. We were in a has no power except that he was kissing Livia, and It is interesting to note and then Augustus himself, serious recession with both granted it by the people. It is saying “live mindful of our that up to the time of Augus- who died an old and lonely high unemployment and time to check and reverse wedlock, end farewell.” tus, the Romans seemed to man, became the tomb’s last high inflation. We failed to the growth of government, He was blessed with an, be mostly concerned about tenant. support our allies in the which shows signs of having easy death and one he had the tombs of their ancestors, It should be understood world, and our own citizens grown beyond the consent of always longed for. He died alters for ancestor worship, that during all of the years were held hostage by a the governed.