Posted on 04/18/2017 6:21:41 PM PDT by mdittmar
CHICAGO – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL-02) today unveiled two pieces of legislation they will introduce when Congress is back in session next week to expand and increase access to employment opportunities for at-risk youth. The Helping to Encourage Real Opportunity (HERO) for At-Risk Youth Act and the Creating Pathways for Youth Employment Act will increase federal resources for communities seeking to create or grow employment programs and provide tax incentives to businesses and employers to hire and retain youth from economically distressed areas.
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Great! More bureaucracy. Just what Black inner cities need. Look how well it’s worked so far.
All lefties know is to throw money at stuff. And when it doesn’t work send more money.
Idiots.
While they raise the minimum wage
These “at risk youths” have occupations, Mr. Durbin.
They sell drugs and kill people.
They don’t want your pay cut.
With $15 min wage, youth unemployment will reach about 90%... can’t think of many kids I would hire at $15/hr. to learn how to work.
With $15 min wage, youth unemployment will reach about 90%... can’t think of many kids I would hire at $15/hr. to learn how to work.
As I saw the “D”, I knew the answer their gimundous brains developed: spend more money that they themselves could never earm.
Andl sazaam, somehow, I was correct.
The simple mind of a liberal is a thing to behold.
All one thought of it.
Send them all to Parris Island.
After 95% get booted out, send them to McDonald’s to “sling burgers”. If they last 6 months, they are home free.
Better yet, send them to Chick-fil-A to work for 6 months.
This is BOUND to work. It has so much going of fit:
1. Genius Democrat sponsor
2. It’s another law on the books
3. Spends billions of dollars
4. Has a catchy acronym
5. The people it purports to help haven’t had any other government programs to help them up and they are looking for precisely this type of aid to lift them out of poverty
6. Programs like this have had wonderful, measurable results every time they’ve been tried in the past
It can’t possibly fail.
Step 1 - Pass more laws
Step 2 - Send money
Step 3 - Send MUCH MORE money
Step 4 - Pass more laws to fix what you did in Step 1
Rephrase it.
The government PROHIBITS them from working if they can’t produce work valued at $15/hr or more.
Of course they’re unemployed. Leftists won’t let them be employed. What do Leftists have against youth in high-poverty areas?
History tells us throwing money at the problem of poverty works every time.
Right?
Oh, that’s easy! Make the minimum wage$20. /s
Wow, I've never heard it said so well. That's profound.
Apparently you didn’t get the memo.
Wether or not they actually produce $15 bucks worth it not is immaterial. You HAVE to be able to raise a family on minimum wage or...or...well, it’s not FAIR!
HERO...a concept by the Democrats United Reaction
To Bellicose Inner-city Nitwits (DURBIN)
This goes beyond “fairness”; I think it is a waste of time and money, but I know they are desperately trying to chip away at this massive bloc of people who have no concept of waking up each morning and doing something productive.
Offering $50 per hour for makework won’t fix this; it is a cultural problem.
Agree. They're going to have to start by giving them alarm clocks and teaching them to tell time.NOT kidding. I always feel sorry for precious little black kids who have no chance to make anything of themselves….Jerk*** leftists don't seem to care about them
Ignore the demographics and all will be fine. Nust throw some money and businesses will rush in to Detroit, South Side Chicago, Selma. The youths will only burn your shop down evey year or two.
Oh yeah. And Durbin will call everyone against this a racist.
They serve as fodder for the “poverty industrial complex”, employing countless teachers, cops, social workers, and corrections officers - while breeding more fodder into the same mess.
The “digital divide” is a convenient scapegoat, but I’ve seen too many ghetto folk with electronic gadgets worth more than the beat-up old car I drive to work to believe this. If they can’t even speak English, the gadgets can only be used to set up flash-robs and take gangsta selfies.
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