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Obama: Job training must reflect changing economy
Associated Press ^ | Jan 30, 2014 3:03 PM EST

Posted on 01/30/2014 1:01:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

Stressing the importance of having job-training programs that work, President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a “soup to nuts” review of federal workforce training initiatives and pledged to copy the most successful ones.

Emphasizing themes from his State of the Union address, Obama cast improved job training as central to his efforts to make it easier for people to move up into and stay in the middle class. […]

Obama said he wants a “soup to nuts” review because not all federal job-training programs do what they’re supposed to. He said he wants to move the government away from a “train and pray” approach to job training, where “you train workers first, and then you hope they get a job.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jobtraining; obama
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Well . . . continuing big-government policies that scare jobs out of the country certainly will not help people get a job, no matter how much training they get.
1 posted on 01/30/2014 1:01:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
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Governments spend billions to educate kids from Pre-K to 12th grade. And after kids go through this wonderful system they need...job training.


2 posted on 01/30/2014 1:03:37 PM PST by fhayek
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To: fhayek

The Communist Manifesto doesn’t fill in the blanks beyond “Free education for all children in public schools” and “Combination of education with industrial production” . . . so people like Mr. Obama get lost after that.


3 posted on 01/30/2014 1:06:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
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He’ll train them for the jobs of the future...filling out government forms for welfare.


4 posted on 01/30/2014 1:06:23 PM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
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To: Olog-hai

Finally he gets something right “soup to nuts” review. Under the Obama economy, the only place job training gets put to use is in the fast food industry.


5 posted on 01/30/2014 1:08:28 PM PST by CMAC51
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To: Olog-hai

He sort of swerves near the truth there. The headline of this story is an admission government can’t possibly handle the task, but you’ll never hear a Rat say that.


6 posted on 01/30/2014 1:13:50 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Olog-hai

Gee, that line hasn’t changed since the 1970’s when they started padlocking the first few steel plants around here.


7 posted on 01/30/2014 1:14:27 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Obama: Job training must reflect changing economy

Yup, because people need to be trained to learn how to live without a job. FUBO!

8 posted on 01/30/2014 1:15:42 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Beagle8U

There are no other jobs available to train for, thanks to Obama.


9 posted on 01/30/2014 1:17:24 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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What Obama really wants is this.

Reichsarbeitsdienst

10 posted on 01/30/2014 1:17:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: CMAC51

. . . where you must subsequently “fight for 15”.


11 posted on 01/30/2014 1:19:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
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The only good job training is going on in South Carolina…a company moves there they get with the comity college in the area and they hire workers who are then trained at the community college..you have a job if you can get the education...


12 posted on 01/30/2014 1:20:36 PM PST by Hojczyk
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Emphasizing themes from his State of the Union address, Obama cast improved job training as central to his efforts to make it easier for people to move up into and stay in the middle class.

Wow! So did Representative Sally Soccer Mom in the GOPe response to the SOTU:
Republicans have plans to close the gap… Plans that focus on jobs first without more spending, government bailouts, and red tape…

Every day, we’re working to expand our economy, one manufacturing job, nursing degree and small business at a time. We have plans to improve our education and training systems so you have the choice to determine where your kids go to school…so college is affordable…and skills training is modernized.
The loyal opposition sans the opposition part.
13 posted on 01/30/2014 1:21:00 PM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: dfwgator

We had our own version of the RAD, it was the WPA, CCA, and all the other Roosevelt era work corps projects. FDR was our very own dictator and still people in this country worship him.


14 posted on 01/30/2014 1:21:22 PM PST by turducken
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To: Olog-hai

Obama: Colleges are some of my biggest supporters. I must pay them back with higher enrollment. Kickbacks are great!


15 posted on 01/30/2014 1:25:13 PM PST by vpintheak (Thankful to be God blessed & chosen!)
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To: dfwgator

Duh, is this Obama’s vision of “Shovel Ready?”


16 posted on 01/30/2014 1:28:07 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ya know what?

The Indian government isn’t preoccupied with job training programs, but the Indian IT firms have massive programs to train, retrain, and retain their employees.

Not only does their survival in their business depend upon it, but they each look for ways to gain an advantage by having better programs.


17 posted on 01/30/2014 1:28:10 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Olog-hai

Having ‘freed’ the economy from the necessity of making products or creating value, the Obama program offers these Job Training Courses:

Food Stamp Sorter
Voter Fraud Enabler (ACORN, etc)
Yahoo! Comment Troll
Reporter of ‘fishy’ comments concerning the Administration
Ethnic Activist
Racial Activist
Union Activist
Socialist Activist
Gender Activist
Sexual Rights Activist
Perverted Sexual Rights Activist
Abortion Rights Activist


18 posted on 01/30/2014 1:40:23 PM PST by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Olog-hai

I doubt he even knows wgat he is talking about.


19 posted on 01/30/2014 2:09:40 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

I doubt he even knows what he is talking about


20 posted on 01/30/2014 2:13:36 PM PST by lowbridge
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