Say no to New Green Deal (Letter to the Editor)

Holger Krahmer was right to criticize green jobs as a scam ("Green New Deal is a raw deal for the U.S.," Commentary, Monday). "Green jobs" are a pretext for corporate welfare that destroys American jobs.

For example, the stimulus package is using taxpayer subsidies to replace American jobs with foreign green jobs. Seventy-nine percent of its green-jobs funding went to foreign firms.

Spain’s green-jobs program, a model for the Obama administration, has been a costly failure, destroying jobs and contributing to that country’s fiscal crisis.

Mr. Obama’s biggest green-jobs proposal, a global-warming bill, would expand ethanol subsidies, which harm forests and water supplies. Ethanol subsidies cause famines and food riots in poor countries such as Afghanistan by reducing food supplies.