I’m planning Green Jobs Now National Day of Action activities in two campuses of the City University of New York and I noticed this section in the “Core Message and Talking Points” for organizers.  I underlined the interesting bit.

A month ago, a multi-billion investment in the green economy from Washington and Wall Street seemed reasonable.  It’s laughable now.

One of the things that has really angered me about the proposed $700 billion bailout of investment banks is that it sends a crystal-clear message about our national priorities.  The changing climate, lack of affordable health care, shortage of fair-wage jobs, and 7.2 million people behind bars, on parole or on probation: in the eyes of this Administration, these are not “crises.” 

The $125 million that Congress has yet to appropriate for the Green Jobs Act of 2007 now looks like chump change. 

And I don’t even want to estimate how many green jobs could have been created, how many wind farms could have been built, how many building could have been retrofitted with the $3 trillion that has been spent on the Iraq War.