[Claud]

For young blacks with no job experience, he’s got plans. One is borrowed from the left-leaning Century Foundation. Every summer, the State Department brings about 100,000 young foreigners into the U.S. to work in restaurants, camps, and seaside resorts under J-1 visas. Trump says convert the program into a jobs bank for our own inner city youth.

This sounds fantastic.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Some good ideas here. I am willing to give Trump a chance to see what he can do-—Job Banks sound good to me.

[Little Pig]

On paper, yes. However, if that actually goes through, it’ll be a big hit on the economy. Those J-1 holders actually show up for work, aren’t surly, and do the job they’re hired to do. Converting those slots into a “job bank” would result in thousands of unfilled positions, and tens of thousands more that open back up after a week or two when the “inner city youth” decide it’s too hard to actually show up, and quit.