The Choice Can't Be Clearer: Jobs or No Jobs?

We have this...

For the third year, UNLV hosted the National Clean Energy Summit which focused on bringing green jobs to Americans and Nevadans.

The Center for American Progress Action Fund and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid organized the Tuesday event.

Senator Reid said a greater push behind renewable energy would ease the nation's security problems and help overcome economic woes.

"We have 86 new projects now. Not projects on the drawing board, but actual projects now so these jobs are here, but as we heard the potential is unlimited," said Senator Harry Reid, (D) Nevada.

And we have this...

MGM Resorts International Chief Executive Officer Jim Murren says Sharron Angle's election to the U.S. Senate would hurt Nevada's already struggling economy.

Murren said Tuesday that Angle's comment that the company's CityCenter development injured other businesses in Nevada was disappointing and perplexing. He questions how a U.S. Senate candidate could have such a "poor" understanding of business and economics.

Murren is a Republican who supports Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Angle is Reid's GOP opponent as he seeks a fifth term.

We have jobs on the line. We have our future on the line. We can move forward to more sustainable future, both environmentally and economically...





Or we can move back to the failed policies of the past.



Again, the choice can't be clearer. Let's make the right choice.

Nope, The Teabaggers Can't Muck Up the Clean Energy Summit

(Image courtesy of Las Vegas Sun)

Oh, joy! The teabagger/birther brigade has finally come down to Vegas!

About 75 conservative activists waved signs and shouted at passing cars.

Shawn Moshos, a union carpenter and Ron Paul delegate to the Nevada state Republican Convention in Reno last year, said he was on hand to protest policies that he believes will edge America toward socialism. "This is about controlling America's prosperity, when we should be in charge of our prosperity." Recently passed legislation that would limit carbon emissions by insitituting a system for trading and selling emissions credits would destroy more jobs than it would create, he charged.

The conservative demonstrators were outnumbered by progressive activists who chanted, "What do we want? Clean energy! When do we want it? Now!"

Heh. And I really thought there would be more of them, as three of their most hated politicians (Harry Reid, Al Gore, and President Clinton) are here for the National Clean Energy Summit. Btw, I have the live stream upstairs if you'd like to watch it live (but can't be at the Thomas & Mack Center today).

Hopefully, people will look beyond the noise and actually listen to ideas on how we can combat the climate crisis, retool our economy for the 21st century, and finally put Nevada and the entire nation on a more sustainable path of smart growth.