[SeekAndFind]

Here’s how the program called GEORGIAWORK$ works:

The person on unemployment is sent to *work* for an employer and to learn a new job skill.

Employer doesn’t have to pay person so takes on half dozen employees and schedules them for 24 hrs each to train them.

Person goes in and is *trained* for 24 hrs and gets check plus unemployment from State of Georgia.

Back story...employer now has free labor and looks around and sees that his regular employees now are no longer needed so begins to cut or eliminate their hours...

Employer has unending supply of free labor and sees that he is now increasing his profit margin by *training* all these new folks...employer now has incentive to further cut his payroll costs so further cuts hours of regular employees...

Result: everyone who participates in this program now owes loyalty to the government who is paying them...

[softwarecreator]

So whatever happened to the "Fact Checkers" that the press used to employ?

[Hugin]

He also cited programs to make old houses more energy efficient. There was a post on FR a few days ago about the program in Seattle. They spent 20 million in stimulus money, and created 14 jobs, almost all adminstrative, and retrofited (installed insulation) in 3 houses. Now the money is gone and they want more.

[NoLibZone]

Solyndra proves Obama cannot create jobs.

[ml/nj]

I wondered about this last night when Obama talked about training.

What job could anyone from the government ever train someone for?

ML/NJ

[American Constitutionalist]

Solyndra Gate !!

[American Constitutionalist]

SolyndraGate !!

[rockinqsranch]

bflr

[StAnDeliver]

"It’s not as if Georgia doesn’t have unemployed workers, either. Their unemployment rate runs above the national average (10.1%), and those workers mainly come from industries where retraining would appear to be a good idea — construction, manufacturing, and finance."

Finance??! They came from retraining out of manufacturing 10 years ago!

What are we supposed to retrain the credit card beavers into? Belly dancers?

How about just getting rid of Bobo & BoboCare and letting private enterprise create some freaking finance jobs for these fine Atlanta Amish...

[quesney]

How much of the nation’s wealth — how many trillions — has this man squandered and continues to squander? How long will we be cleaning up after his mess?