This story (linked by Drudge) about the temporary nature of the make-work “jobs created” by the stimulus bill should help educate Americans about the chimera of “green jobs.” We know these ill-defined little critters, their amorphousness and artificiality aside, happen to destroy real jobs that provide goods and services in response to real demand. It turns out, they also disappear quickly — both due to their temporary nature and the fact that the state cannot continue pumping the bubble full of taxpayers’ money when state coffers go empty, as they inevitably do.

An example would be Spain’s experience with their vaunted (by Obama . . . also temporarily, until the truth was pushed into the light) green-jobs boondoggle. Resources that would have been productively employed in the real economy were redirected to, say, 60-day installation contracts for windmills and windmill-related paraphernalia. This is why Spain lost four out of five of their “green jobs created” just this year: They ran out of money to keep filling the bubble.

Hopefully the recognition of the temporary nature of stimulus jobs takes root, and becomes a sturdy meme. We’ll need something to hang onto when the public relations tsunami that the global-warming industry will soon unleash in anticipation of the Senate cap-and-trade debate finally hits.