Can anyone help me debunk this?

[Geoff R. Casavant]

One of my FaceBook friends posted the following:

"In Spain, for every "green job" created with solar subsidies, 2.2. jobs in other sectors were destroyed. And each of those green jobs cost $758,471 to create. Shockingly, President Obama points to Spain as a model for America."

I'm going to do my usual google search and so forth, but if anyone has the true facts I can rebut with, I'd appreciate it.

[Brickbat]

1. Goodness, why not have your Facebook friend prove it?

[RDANGELO]

2. self deleted

[Brickbat]

3. Here's a debunking of the Spanish study your friend is probably citing.

http://greeneconomypost.com/debunk-spanish-study-green-jobs-1582.htm

[Geoff R. Casavant]

5. Perfect -- thanks!

Looks like it was debunked within three weeks of its publication.

[rfranklin]

4. If you looked at how much it cost to build the railroads...

across the U.S. back in the 1800's and applied that cost to each job created for the first year it would prove that the railroads should never have been built. But conservatives were against those new fangled trains back then. And they said the idea of airplanes was crazy because only things with feathers could fly.

[Lasher]

6. Here's something from FactCheck.org

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/cap-and-trade-green-jobs-or-job-killer/

[sinkingfeeling]

7. It certainly has been spewed around the RW side for the last year. The story was picked up in

newspapers across the country and parotted by all the talking heads. Here's what Media Matters wrote:

http://mediamatters.org/research/201002240011

[Geoff R. Casavant]

8. Thanks!