NZ Greens horsecrap.

‘The Green Party has this morning launched an ambitious $2.5 billion plan to generate 100,000 new jobs, with at least half of those to come from a push to grow New Zealand’s renewable energy technology exports to $8 billion a year.
The remainder of the new jobs would come through further Government investment in housing, and “by shifting the drivers for green jobs in the private sector”, co-leader Russel Norman said…’
Apparently these clowns (or criminally dishonest bastards, take your pick) haven’t been reading the news lately. News of “green” companies going belly-up, wasting billions in taxpayer’s money in the process. The “100,000 new jobs” claim is a flat-out lie.
There are no major green energy schemes to my knowledge which don’t rely on massive taxpayer subsidies.
Update: TrueblueNZ does a beautiful job of skewering this idiocy. ‘Watermelon Russell Norman- Still Trying the “Green Jobs” Con’