Faking Green Jobs

I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to see what the green job business was about. First shock: Logging, sawmill and wood preservation jobs are considered "Green". So those Spotted Woodpecker (or was it an owl?) Exterminators have succeeded in changing their colors and now are green. Not only green, but shining Emerald green. In fact, the most numerous green workers (except Government jobs) are in logging.

As expected, the Government employs most other green workers. 76 percent of forest and conservation technicians were employed by the federal government. Environmental engineers earned an hourly mean wage of $37.49, making this the highest paying of the occupations in the green sector.

What, only forestry and conservation people are "Green"? It appears that the Government has difficulty to identify other "green" jobs. They dont know what a Green job is and where to find it. They have reservations about bureaucrats: They are Government employees, therefore they can be calsssified as white, black, yellow, but not green.

Another interesting data: There are only 10 million production workers in the USA. The finance industry employs more people than the whole American manufacturing. Finance is automatic and driven by computers, yet the quantity of people working in selling life insurance is astronomic.

It appears that the de-industrialization is largely over and irrelevant, it is a process that affects very few people (and none of them important), because less than 3 in 100 Americans is an industrial worker. Americans have learned to produce with few people, like in agriculture before.

The Military is an important occupational sector, more than manufacturing. It is a vital organization to keep the country purposefully busy and occupied. America needs permanent enemies, like in the novel 1984, and Bin Laden - thanks Allah - provides that necessary function. Like Goldberg in 1984, Bin Laden cannot die. America needs him. Somebody must be thinking on how to turn Bin Laden "green".