Here's a wakeup blast.. (from the Powerline guys, linking to Innocent Bystanders excellent debunking of jobless projections by the 0.)
Here a link to the blog post.
Posted on 07/06/2009 6:19:32 PM PDT by Scott Martin
President Obama's Porkulus plan will direct $1.4 billion into job retraining and other services for people who have lost their jobs. Given the ever growing number of people who now fit that description, some might be inclined to question whether even that huge amount of money is enough. But it turns out the question is moot, since available evidence indicates that job retraining, much like the President's "stimulus" plan as a whole, doesn't actually work.
-- In Michigan, where the unemployment rate in May was 14.1 percent, the nation’s highest, 78,000 people are enrolled in the state’s No Worker Left Behind program and 7,800 are on the waiting list...
Nonetheless, a little-noticed study the Labor Department released several months ago found that the benefits of the biggest federal job training program were “small or nonexistent” for laid-off workers. It showed little difference in earnings and the chances of being rehired between laid-off people who had been retrained and those who had not. --
So we spend all this money on something that makes "little difference." On second thought, maybe we should be applauding this program, since the stimulus money we've spent already is making things worse. Perhaps under Obama, we now hope for "little difference" as the goal for all government spending.
The program doesn't work for all sorts of commonsense reasons that the liberal do-gooders like to ignore when they come up with their social experiments...
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
If there are no jobs available, there is no reason to retrain.
“job retraining” has never worked. We go through this every economic downturn. It was painfully obvious this same crap didn’t work in the 70s. Unlike the more intelligent rat who stops pushing the red button when it doesn’t give a reward, DIMocrats and too many Republicans keep using our money to push the non responsive “job retraining” button.
Our representatives in DC are not rats, they aren’t that smart.
Another non solution based in urban legend with no valid measurement of success in modern history.
If you are Taxed into bankruptcy, you ain’t hiring anyone.
This is really a weak effort of a lost Administration.
Maybe we should offer Tea Party training and Temporary employment opportunities ?
The essence of hope and change. If you hope enough, maybe things will change. Or is it, if you change enough, and hope it works.
This might be a bit off topic, but whatever.
Why do people think that in a country where 90+% worked on a farm about 100 years ago, everyone will suddenly become an uber-geek information worker of the highest quality with just a little training?
I am a good programmer and software developer. I’ve worked with people who got paid well, but couldn’t do the job as well as I could. They had CS degrees. It isn’t easy and it isn’t for everyone. Why do we think that displaced factory workers can just pick up the more advanced skills needed when all the manufacturing is sent overseas?
Why do we think they want to? I might be exaggerating a bit, but engineering and technology and biotech seem to be what politicians push as the ideal for “new jobs” or “green jobs”.
Here's a wakeup blast.. (from the Powerline guys, linking to Innocent Bystanders excellent debunking of jobless projections by the 0.)
Here a link to the blog post.
Here's the latest June actual...
Look at that. The stimulus must be working since the rate of unemployment increase is decreasing. Yay! Truly we are blessed that The One is our leader!
Yeah - every American should see that graph and have it explained to them in detail until it gets through their heads.
LOL - yup, it’s working alright - well enough to cause a revolution. 8^)
I’m betting the actual number of unemployed will continue to rise until it is 15-18 percent... most unfortunately for the 0.
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