President Obama touted the promises he has kept during his first term, painting a picture of an honest, effective leader.
But he has not kept all his promises—even on his cherished green jobs.
Last week, Bloomberg reported that the actual number of green energy jobs had fallen short of Obama’s five-million-job goal from 2008:
In 2010, Brookings identified 2.7 million "green jobs" around the country. Of these jobs, "most were bus drivers, sewage workers, and other types of work that don’t fit the ‘green jobs of the future’ that Obama imagined," writes Bloomberg. And there is no way to tell how many of these jobs existed before Obama took office—although presumably there were bus drivers before January 2009.
