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Next time you hear politicians promising the restrictive environmental laws they’re passing will put Americans back to work in green jobs, ask the workers who make light bulbs how it’s working out for them.

Next time you hear politicians promising the restrictive environmental laws they’re passing will put Americans back to work in green jobs, ask the workers who make light bulbs how it’s working out for them.

General Electric is shuttering light bulb factories in Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, putting 400 workers off the job. Why? Because the factories make the old-style incandescent bulbs, which are being outlawed by congressional decree.

The old bulbs will be replaced by the environmentally correct compact fluorescents bulbs. But they won’t be made in GE’s American factories.Read Full Article

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