Will The Party of NO Stand in the Way of Clean Energy Jobs?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: May 19, 2009
New TV Ad from Americans United for Change Challenges the Party of NO to Support Obama's Plan for Creating Millions of Clean Energy Jobs
Washington D.C. - Americans United for Change unveiled a new television ad today that invokes images of President John F Kennedy and compares his challenge of putting a man on the moon that led to the technological jobs of the future to President Obama's challenge to create millions of new clean energy jobs for our generation. The ad called "Jobs of the Future" will air on DC cable this week as the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee continues work on "The American Clean Energy and Security Act."
Tom McMahon, Acting Executive Director, Americans United for Change: "Congress is acting quickly to meet President Obama's challenge for a clean energy future with transformational legislation that will wean our nation off its dependence foreign oil, dramatically curb pollution that causes Global Warming, save American consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs -- all while creating millions of new clean energy jobs. When the time comes, will the Republican Party of NO join with President Obama in his historic effort to grow our economy, improve our energy security, and create millions of green jobs -- or will they continue to look out for big oil's bottom line?"
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| " Jobs of the Future" Ad Back-Up Americans United For Change TV (:30)
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| ANNCR: Fifty years ago a young President challenged us to put a man on the moon. John Kennedy's vision put America in the forefront of the technological revolution that created the jobs of the future -- for a generation of Americans.
| "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space." [President John F. Kennedy address to Joint Session of Congress, May 25, 1961] The Apollo Moon Program employed, directly or indirectly, 400,000 people - engineers and scientists - and spawned development in the fields of rocketry and aeronautics, as well as in areas of civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering. [In the Shadow of Moons documentary; "Apollo's Contribution to America," nasa.gov] |
| ANNCR: Today President Obama has challenged us again - to create the jobs of the future for our generation - millions of clean energy jobs.
| "Through investments in scientific research and development, and the vigorous pursuit of alternative and renewable energy, we can create millions of green jobs that allow us to reduce greenhouse gases and excel in a competitive global economy." [President Obama's Earth Day Proclamation, 4/22/09] |
| ANNCR: But the oil companies and the Republicans just say no. CG: NO
| Congressman John Fleming (R-La.) said no to clean energy jobs, referring to them as "paper mache jobs." [Talk News Radio Service, 5/7/09] Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) said no to clean energy jobs, saying they are "as real as the Jolly Green Giant" and don't really exist. [Salt Lake Tribune, 5/5/09] Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) put out a report entitled, "Yellow Light on Green Jobs," which argues that clean energy jobs are too expensive. He has said, "Green jobs are not so much created as they are bought with massive taxpayers subsidies." ["Yellow Light on Green Jobs" Spring 2009' St. Louis Post Dispatch, 4/27/09] Chevron and ExxonMobil Sponsor Groups Working Against Clean Energy Jobs. Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil are both large donors to the Heritage Foundation, which last month held an event entitled "Busting the Myth of Green Jobs." According to the advisory, the event would "examine some of the fundamental flaws in the green jobs-as-an-economic-salve line of argument." [Heritage Foundation Annual Report, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004; Heritage Foundation Press Advisory, 4/5/09]
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| ANNCR: There have always been those who said no to progress. But America has never taken no for an answer. CG: America has never taken NO for an answer. Call Congress at (202) 225-3121 - tell them to support the Obama Energy Plan. Paid for by Americans United for Change. |
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