US Jobs!  Currently there is $54 billion earmarked in the current economic stimulus package for “Clean, Efficient, American Energy” and also $16 billion for “Transform our Economy with Science and Technology”.  Of that $70 billion $0 is going specifically for solar, but there is $8 billion for “Renewable Energy Loan Guarantees”.  This is precisely where a program of distributed, residential solar manufacturing could make the greatest impact on American jobs and the economy.

Just as during the Great Depression when Franklin Roosevelt implemented the WPA and rebuilt the country's infrastructure, we need to generate jobs to move us out of this recession. now.