Don Carrington has written an interesting article for the Carolina Journal. Apparently, the federal government has given up on a $60 million program to count green jobs. John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute called it pure propaganda because government has assumed some jobs were better than others. The definition of a green job varied with the territory, and in many instances, janitors, people who fuel school buses, burger flippers, and grease monkeys were included. Former BLS commissioner Keith Hall said most green jobs were created for handling government regulation, therefore not producing anything to increase GDP, and therefore rather useless. In 2010, when “employment in the production of green goods and services” in North Carolina was 77,498, 171,950 North Carolinians “were working in the green economy.”